What question(s) do you want to ask a transgender person?

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    [–][deleted] 6 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 5 fun -  (7 children)

    That sounds super leftist, but whatever. I have minor OCD, which I assume is genetic, considering how it runs in my family.

    OCD is a horrible disease that fucks up a lot of lives. Saying you have OCD cause you're particular about punctuation some feel makes light of a serious ailment. My brother used to wash his hands compulsively for hours every day until they bled. That's OCD, not just liking things orderly.

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      Mental illness and addiction are categorized as a disease in order to facilitate societal acceptance, it doesn't follow the same model. Not to be pedantic but I'm sure you see how that makes direct comparisons problematic.

      Could you legitimately have a little ocd? Fuck if I know, but I'm just telling you why people are offended by it. Like complaining you're a little bit handicap to a person confined in a wheelchair. Yeah sure, maybe, but they probably still ain't gonna appreciate it.

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        [–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

        It wasn't my punctuation, my punctuation is generally immaculate. That was someone else.

        just because you already dislike me and want another reason to attack me.

        I'm not particularly happy with you atm, but I've never attacked you and I don't dislike you. You actually did something for me you may not realize that I really appreciate.

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          [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

          I thought everyone here hated my guts LOL

          That's because you probably (80% chance) have a personality disorder.

          [–][deleted] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (9 children)

          He means chemical birth control as in hormonal contraceptives previous to attempting pregnancy. I assume he's trying to draw correlations between the use of hormonal contraceptives and transgender alignment (or perhaps just feminine behavior in the male sex?), which is odd considering that women have been using them for several decades now and there hasn't been a major increase in transgender people til much more recently. Testosterone levels, however, are and have been decreasing everywhere-- not just Western areas where hormonal contraceptives have been used for so long. **Not saying they're great, I think they fuck up natural cycles among other things. Digressions.

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          Testosterone levels, however, are and have been decreasing everywhere

          These are both (xenoestrogens and the trans movement) deliberate attacks on maleness.

          [–]InvoluntaryHalibut 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

          Yeah I really think there is something going on in the environment, either birth control or pesticides or platics or some other drug like antidepressants. It seems epidemic. It could be a cultural shift but I think its something else

          [–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

          https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3621773/#__sec2title

          And statins.

          https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214750014000262

          And antifungals.

          [–]InvoluntaryHalibut 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

          I was researching tagamet and I found similar problems with that too. And I know there’s some prostate meds that are anti-androgenic. How much of this shit gets in to the water supply? And the food?

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          https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3179830/

          More studies have to be done to really understand what's going and why. That's going to take more research that's invested in finding direct solutions: whether it's a particular type of estrogen that's involved in stimulating those pathways, or purely androgenic, or something else. The issue lies in that we're not exactly a carbon copy of one another, so while we have a basic anatomical guide to go by and understand processes to happen in a typical way-- there's a spectrum of what is considered normal. Having large study groups helps to find an average, but you can't just dissect everyone down to a molecular level and monitor each individual physiological action and pathway for each person to find their particular cause (but that would be pretty fucking neat to see a program that could do that).

          [–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

          Exposure to xenoestrogens has impacts on both sexes, ultimately.

          [–]Airbus320 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

          Is teflon fry pan bad for both genders?

          [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

          Oh, damn. Teflon. Keeping even test levels from sticking.