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

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[–]VirgilGriff 5 insightful - 9 fun5 insightful - 8 fun6 insightful - 9 fun -  (10 children)

Do you actually have OCD, or are you appropriating an illness in a trendy manner?

Did your mother use chemical birth control before your birth?

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    [–][deleted] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (8 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.

    [–][deleted] 3 insightful - 5 fun3 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 5 fun -  (7 children)

    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?

    [–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    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.