dandelion (she/her)
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- no, I’m not named after the character in The Witcher, I’ve never played
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dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Trans Memes@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Master of the Razor Blade2·1 天前to help with razor burn, sanitize your razor with 70% rubbing alcohol
dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoFrugal@lemmy.world•What do You Buy In Bulk to Save Money?English1·1 天前how do you store your dry beans? I always end up with my beans getting too dry and they stay hard even after lots of cooking, dry beans have become something I can’t buy in bulk and only fresh.
meat-free bacon reporting for duty 🫡
dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Transfem@lemmy.blahaj.zone•What are The signs about you being trans that your pre Crack self ignored/overlooked?English3·2 天前lol, I also spent a lot of time on /r/egg_irl and knew about egg culture and so on, and still didn’t get that I was an egg. I found the memes relatable and while it was fine to joke that I might be an egg, I didn’t take it seriously.
dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Transfem@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Meanwhile me who will probably have to wait for a year or soEnglish9·2 天前I’m in the U.S.
After some therapy I called up my primary care physician (PCP), told my nurse I have gender dysphoria and would like a referral to an endrocrinologist, and then gave the information about the endo so they could send over the referral.
Then the endo called me and I made an appointment, the first available was 3 months away. The endo thought it was obvious I should be on estrogen and sent the prescription in immediately, and I was able to pick up the estrogen that day.
Sometimes the psychologist can send the referral rather than the PCP, but my PCP was happy to send it (I got lucky, my PCP was randomly trans-affirming and turns out, unknown to me, they had other trans patients). So one way this can get bogged down is if your psychologist or PCP isn’t willing to send a referral to an endo, or if you’re relying on the PCP for the HRT, they just won’t write you the Rx.
Another way this can get bogged down is if the wait time to see the endo is longer, or if the endo decides they aren’t sure they should prescribe you the HRT.
This is why it’s good to talk to the local trans community to know which therapists, PCPs, and endos to see. If the community doesn’t know, sometimes there are resources and directories collected online - I found my endo through the Trans in the South guide.
mfw I’m pondering my orbs and someone tries to make it sexual:
don’t be creepy 🙁
draw her drawing her draw her
ooo, draw her pondering orbs!
dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto RPGMemes @ttrpg.network•A lesson so many need to learn10·3 天前Basic Role-Playing (BRP), which is the system Call of Cthulhu is based on, is a great alternative to D&D as a roleplaying system. It is much easier to learn and understand, everything is based on percentages, and the system can be as mechanically crunchy or open as the DM prefers.
dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Femcel Memes@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Work on your posture (Stupid Twink)English6·3 天前and hydrating!
I love Altra’s Escalante Racers, such a great shoe
dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoLGBTQ+@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Care, Not Controversy: Long before today’s battles, doctors and families developed gender-affirming care for trans youth— The practice remains effective, and more important than ever.1·3 天前Yes, this is a major downside of the current medical and legal approach to minors (similar problems are found with abortion services, e.g. laws requiring parental consent for a minor to receive an abortion).
However, this article seems to have an intention and rhetorical goal of setting the record straight on the reality of trans gender affirming care in the context of a moral panic generated through misinformation and manipulation. The article’s intended audience is likely skeptical of trans identity and reflexively against gender affirming care for minors, and so it makes sense they emphasize how careful and conservative the current medical approach is to such care.
It’s a political asset that the gender affirming care is broken this way because it makes trans-skeptical people more comfortable with it, which should allow it to continue to exist in a world where people operate with the actual facts about the situation, even when they are ignorant or skeptical about the reality of trans identity.
Ultimately the medical establishment does have to be sensitive to the political and cultural context to avoid being shut down, so sometimes it’s a matter of making compromises to provide what they can even if it falls short of the ethical and clinical ideal (and let’s not mince words, this does mean people will die for political convenience, but the question is how many more would die if they were not conservative in their approach and were shut down completely?)
Naturally a common response to this is to reject the whole project of supporting or depending on the medical establishment’s flawed programs, but I think this critique tends to be hyper-individualist and assumes every trans person can overcome the social and financial context they are in and provide their own gender affirming care (or that alternatives to the medical stablishment would be able to fill everyone’s needs). Needless to say, rejecting gender affirming care from the medical establishment leaves behind the majority of people needing that care, and has obvious limits and problems such as not being able to realistically offer surgeries and risks legal trouble for everyone involved.
We need to realize how important this fight is for the long-term future of trans people and their health, and how that requires working with the medical establishment and investing in those compromised projects.
dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Running@lemmy.world•Training plans for the easily injured?3·4 天前this book was written to help new runners avoid injuries and to help them slowly and safely train to the point of being able to run a race:
The Beginning Runner’s Handbook: The Proven 13-Week RunWalk Program by Ian MacNeill and Sport Medicine Council of British Columbia
It may not be as relevant to you as you have been running for 2 years, but I highly recommend this book as a way to train while avoiding injury, especially to anyone else in this thread who are new runners looking for a resource.
I also had lots of shin splints when I was a beginner runner, and I followed this training program. I essentially just repeated weeks in the program as many times as it took until I was pain free and able to progress to the next week (basically each week incorporates more solid blocks of running and fewer walking breaks, so the first weeks of the program start with the most walking and least running, and the final weeks are when you’re just running the whole time).
dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Europeans, how far do you walk for groceries?4·4 天前right, but OP is 3k away, so 6k round trip just for the grocery store … is that typical?
wtf does this meme mean?
yes, even with soaking before cooking they remain dry. Even after boiling for an hour, cooling, and then simmering for hours. Even after simmering for multiple days - they just remain hard and never fully soften or cook.