I chose Flora because I love plants :)

What others?

In my personal experience, HRT has been great, but really didn’t turn into another gender. I’ve taken estrogen for over half a decade now and am still figuring out who I am…

Any recommendations? :)

https://transfemscience.org/ for anyone who doesn’t know it

Aww, thanks for posting this!!

That’s a beautiful dress that fits you really well. I haven’t dared to put on any dresses for years and now they don’t fit me anymore. Seeing you makes me wanna get and wear a dress, too :)

I’ve tried all of the above and can confirm that indeed being a gay women feels best to me :)

Well, that’s probably only true for some people and only for a certain period after coming out to yourself. Sure, it was euphoric feeling seen in my gender identity when I faced misogyny for the first few times. But once I felt more at home in my gender identity, it wasn’t pleasant anymore.

I actually know plenty of cis straight women who are repeatedly seeking out men that treat them awfully because they think they don’t deserve anything else. I would so far as to say that straight culture is based on misogyny.

Less so with friends, because most of them are queer and/or trans themselves. But sometimes I have that same thought regarding all the other people I know, like my family, flatmates, or just strangers…

I feel like these are all things that I also go through as a (probably mostly???) binary trans person. I don’t really know who I want to be yet and have to discover this, too. I think it is always as much about finding yourself as it is about finding the right gender and gender expression.

On days when I feel confident in myself, I also enjoy this very specific mood of nonconforming and messing with people’s perception of gender :)

Would be great if you wanted to post here!!

Non-binary and trans are not separate concepts though. I identify being trans, but that doesn’t mean I have to be super binary. And the struggles my non-binary friends face are also mostly the same. It is certainly harder to use they/them, neopronouns or no pronouns. But I can still relate with that struggle very much and support wherever I can.

But I agree that it is hard to relate to most trans memes posted here. They are often very binary and rooted in gender stereotypes. But I think this isn’t a you-problem and more of a problem of this specific lemmy community and various trans spaces online. As a trans person, I’d wish there would be more nuanced and relatable takes, not so much idealization of cat girls and anime…

Regarding the OP, I wouldn’t be interacting with strangers like this because I’m socially too anxious.

I think even orally taking bioactive estrogen is not ideal because the body tries to filter it out. So when taking estrogen orally you need a much higher dosage then via injections or gels. With plant hormones you’d need an even higher dosage than that…

Hm, to me this feels like it’s about patriarchal power and that it is therefore inherently violent language.

This is not true. It isn’t any prove that people that weigh more than the “healthy” range are less healthy. That is just more stigma against fat people. Obesity as a concept is deeply intervowen with stigma.

I can recommend the podcast “Maintenance Phase”, where the hosts tackle these misconceptions and the stigma with deep dives into the actual research. Most of the debate about health is just bullshit and more about normativity and power than it is about health.

“Overweight” is a fat-shaming term in itself and it is loaded with social stigma and devaluation…

Sure, although in most trans women not as much that C cups would be seen as small.

Anyways, that’s not what the other person was talking about. They used specifically “overweight” as a term to devaluate someone.

What has their weight to do with it? Really no reason to fat-shame! :(

YES!! This has been my experience exactly!

Not sure if I understand you correctly. You mean this is the terfs’ essentialism shining through, which sees “women” as inherently inferior to “men”? It is pretty weird that those “radical” ““feminists”” have such a patriarchal view on gender and sex.

I really don’t like that apparently “biological women” is being adopted to mean “cis women”. I’m also biologically a woman, at least in part. My main sex hormone is estrogen and my testosterone is so low you cannot even measure it. So it would plainly be false to call me a “biological man”. Just call me a trans woman and those that you call “biological women” cis women. Otherwise this feels like we are adopting terf terminology :(