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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

only TPs who are biologically female get pregnant and have babies?

Pregnancy for trans women is actively being worked on and will eventually be a thing even if I'm too old to get the chance. Also big pharma formulations, u know a lot of dosing is community sourced right? A ton of us are obvi very invested in what we're taking and often it's us telling doctors because many just don't know the standards or the standards are, well, substandard. The actual hormone I take is bioidentical to what's produced by the body.

how come male TPs are winning and setting records in girls' and women's sports but female TPs are not winning and setting records in boys' and men's sports? How come male TPs are bumping girls and women off teams, out of competition, off awards podiums and out of record books - but not a single female TP has done the same to any boys or men?

There are trans men in sports too y'all just don't demonize them as much. There was a trans man swimmer that ik of.

Honestly it probably varies by sport and I'm not at all opposed to having different standards for different sports that's actually based on an individual's biology after transitioning.

Yes, some fat can be redistributed, but there is no way to make a male skeleton into a female on, or vice versa

Starting on hrt early enough affects our hip bone growth and fat redistribution goes a long way. And there are upcoming surgeries being done to alter bone structure. Like I was gonna look into getting my leg bones shortened in Ukraine but well, yeah :(

There is no way to change male kidneys into female kidneys

Oh no my kidneys don't pass /j

female Q angles

Lol don't tell me you read that ridiculous transvestigation stuff which is literally the only place I see this term used.

Also everything you said about organs is just averages? I have faith that we'll figure out how to alter a lot of those in time, but I'm mainly dysphoric about stuff on the outside. I'm lucky in that I'm short and have small hands etc, and that I didn't end up with a bad pattern of breast and fat development.

Or between outwardly appearing to be something and actually being it

Yeah, I don't. What's inside me is to me irredeemably disgusting and awful but through transitioning at least the packaging is alright. I just don't show past that layer to most people. Tbh I've been kind of done dating cis people for a while now because they don't get it. Other trans people do though because there's a mutual understanding not to try and peel back the layers.

[–]BiologyIsReal 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

There are trans men in sports too y'all just don't demonize them as much. There was a trans man swimmer that ik of.

No one has said there aren't trans identified females who are compenting in sports. We said they are not winning in MEN's sports. I know of a TM swimmer, too: she competes in the WOMEN's category, which is quite common among female athletes who identify as "men" or "non-binary". Funny how they are eager to compete against men unlike TW, who are eager to compete against women. I wonder why that could be...

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

Wow it's almost like trans men identify as men and trans women identify as women. I think there'll be more trans man athletes over time, testosterone could very well allow some to compete against cis men in many sports.

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

testosterone could very well allow some to compete against cis men in many sports.

We know this isn't true because of widespread doping that's occurred in sports over many decades. The GDR in particular ran a program in the 1960s, 70s and 80s in which large numbers of female athletes took exogenous testosterone regularly throughout their tween, teen and adult years. The androgenized female athletes won all the top prizes and broke records in many women's events such as Olympic swimming, but they never came close to performing anywhere near the levels of the elite males in their sports.

Florence Griffith Joyner was believed to have been doping on androgens when she set her world records in women's sprints in the 1980s. For 33 years, no female broke her records in the 100m or 200m. But since the year 2000 alone, more than 3,600 males have run faster than her 100m record.

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