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Note that Turkey is not in the EU though. AFAIK at least E is also available over the counter in Spain and Portugal and if you live in the EU you may have fewer issues with customs there.

I’m not saying it’s an easy line to draw because you obviously don’t want to create incentives for bad journalism, but don’t want to make it too high of a bar to get into in the first place. I think you’d need to take things like the number of readers, the factuality of headings and content, the originality and the investigative value into account and be able to at least temporarily cut of bad outlets that spread fake/hate/… while at the same time ensuring that inconvenient truths make it out.

It’s not an easy task, but I feel there is more room to get somewhere useful than with the current model of billionaire-owned media that outdo each other with rage-bait and inaccurate/misleading/falsly balanced/biased reporting…

The honest answer are general fees like they are used for public broadcasters. It’s not a perfect system either and it requires significant effort to keep things neutral, but overall it seems to have the best results if you compare the quality of the outcome.

Also eigentlich wollte ich ja vorschlagen dass Jeder der sich so ein Auto kauft während des Zulassungszeitraums regelmäßig Testosteronblocker nehmen müssen sollte, damit niemand auf die Idee kommt sich sowas zu kompensationszwecken zu kaufen…

Aber dann ist mir aufgefallen, wie viele Transfrauen sich dann für so ein Auto in Schulden stürzen würden, damit sie endlich offiziell T-blocker bekommen können…

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From what I found that is a brand name for Bicalutamide (“Bica”). AFAIK it is a competitive antagonist for the androgen-receptor, which means that it will bind to all the places that Testosteron would bind to without activating the “sensor”, thereby preventing Testosteron from doing the same with effect. The consequence of this is that your T will actually increase, but still not pose any problem if your dose is high enough. The difficulty is then, that you cannot really measure whether your T is properly blocked, because the blood-levels will still be high. Endocrinologists hate it as a consequence, but if you are fine with that, that’s okay.

Other than that Bica seems to be popular with those who take it, but you will require a liver-function test a while in since it can cause some very severe liver-issues with some people (AFAIR you either are susceptible or you are not, so if it’s fine a few month in it should stay fine, but I might be wrong on that; DEFINITELY check the details on that one).

XXY und was auch immer fällt nicht unter F64.

Das ist eigentlich relativ orthogonal: Eine Freundin von mir ist trans und hat gleichzeitig Klinefelder, was zwar gewisse Auswirkungen auf Dinge wie Anatomie hat aber prinzipiell weder an der Geschlechtsdysphorie noch an der Notwendigkeit hormoneller und gegebenenfalls chirurgischer Eingriffe ändert.

It’s up to you of course, but don’t expect this to do all that much. I’m on 12.5mg daily and before my last blood-test I took ≈4mg E transdermal and even at that I was still very much on the upper end of the female range for T.

Then get that estrofem ready to use anyways, since adult human bodies are not made to have no sex hormone. If you get depressions or feel bad in general, add E to the mix anyways.

Also: Cypro (Cyproterone Acetate, Androcur is a marketing name for it) requires much higher doses if you do mono-therapy than if you use it to support E: With E the general wisdom is to not exceed 12.5mg/daily and rather increase E-intake if T isn’t properly suppressed, whereas without you may need 50 to 100mg per day, with a massively increased risk of bad side effects.

There is a reason why pretty much no one who has the choice does it that way, but it’s of course up to you!

IIRC, the primary thing to cause breast-growth is in fact blocking T and doing so can definitely cause it.

For immediate mitigation of hair-loss, which is the most pressing thing if you already went through full puberty you can use finasteride/dustasteride, which are DHT-blockers. In rare cases they can act like weak T-blockers, but that is an exceptional side-effect; after that waiting for half a year will just make you miserable for an additional six month, which may be worth it, depending on your risk-assessment.

OTOH: You won’t see most of your school mates afterwards and if you already have six months of effects and arrive as visibly trans at uni, it can make getting into communities at uni easier.

I’m eight month in and have B- or C-cups. But I’m also much luckier than most of my transfem friends in that regard.

Vor ein paar Monaten hier: „Beamten kriegen riesige unfaire Vorteile“.

Heute: „Beamten werden schlechter bezahlt, deswegen lohnt sich das gar nicht.“

Der Beamtenstatus kommt mit enormen Vor- und Nachteilen, bei weitem nicht alle sind finanzieller Natur. Die Entscheidung ist entsprechend kompliziert und will gut überlegt sein, ein pauschales gut oder schlecht ist da schlicht zu vereinfachend.

There has to be a meaningful number of companies where each individually is spending more on adobe licenses than it would cost them to pay a bunch of developers to get gimp to the point where it is a fully sufficient alternative. But hey, the only thing more important to capitalists than making profit seems to be, to not go for cheaper FLOSS options, rather than spending pointlessly large amounts of money on proprietary software…