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Fiona :transbian: :autism: @WHY2025 DECT: 3591Just had a call with my Endo. Quite pleasant, I even turned down an offer for a higher dose, because it would have required me to take gel twice per day instead of just once. (My Estradiol is at 375 pmol∕l, well within their target range of 300-600 pmol∕l, but since this was not just a trough value, but actually delayed compared to the previous day, I figured that the typical value during the day is higher and that I’d rather have slightly lower values, but not deal with using gel twice per day.) I also took the chance to ask about my other values, since I did loose a lot of weight and was told that my liver and Cholesterol improved, which would be consistent with that and is nice to hear. Sadly they didn’t include hematologic tests (hemoglobin, hemocrit, …) this time, so I’ll go to my GP for that, but after discussing it they will include it next time. My Vitamin D is still low (barely outside the reference range, which is apparently the large majority of people in NL), which would not be concerning, except that I already take supplements, so I’ll probably increase my intake there and we will check it again in 4 months. My Prolactin is good now, but I requested to have it checked one more time, just to make sure. (It was high when I was still taking Cypro, which can indicate a problem, so I’ld prefer to be safe there.) <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/transition" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transition</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/medicalTransition" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#medicalTransition</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/TransJoy" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TransJoy</a>

Fiona :transbian: :autism: @WHY2025 DECT: 3591Please boost for visibility! Tomorrow is the first Monday of the month. That means that <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/Psytrans" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Psytrans</a> will announce whether they have space on their waiting list for their gender-clinic. If you have some money and a good health insurance and are in the Netherlands, this is probably the fastest way to get official treatment here! Be there at 09:00:00 sharp! If they have spaces, it’s first-come-first-serve for a short waiting list that actually complies with Dutch law. The last time they opened the waiting list was in April, I’ve heard (take it as a fourth-hand rumor) that on average they open it like every second months, which would mean that there is a good chance this time around! <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/trans" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trans</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/transgender" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transgender</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/transition" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transition</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/medicalTransition" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#medicalTransition</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/netherlands" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#netherlands</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/nederland" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nederland</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/transgenderzorg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transgenderzorg</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/DutchHellcare" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DutchHellcare</a>

Fiona :transbian: :autism: @WHY2025 DECT: 3591I just got an email that I’m on the waiting list for bottom surgery at Radboud! 😊 This is almost 1.5 months after they should have put me on it and I will remark that lying about when I was done with weight-loss turned out even more fair than I thought, since I essentially got onto the list when I’m (almost) actually done. So it’s apparently half a year or so until the intake and then between another 0.5-1 years and some further time for recovery until I have a body with which I can feel comfortable going into a public <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/onsen" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#onsen</a> again ! (Yes, the onsen is an unreasonably large factor in me wanting to get rid of that stuff. 😅) <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/transition" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transition</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/transjoy" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transjoy</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/trans" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trans</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/transfem" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transfem</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/bottomsurgery" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bottomsurgery</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/medicalTransition" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#medicalTransition</a>

Fiona :transbian: :autism: @WHY2025 DECT: 3591I’m about to write an email to the corresponding author of the <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/Progesterone" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Progesterone</a> study. This is my current draft:<blockquote>Dear Koen, in 2024 you and your team registered a study with BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology in which you declare that you will perform a 1 year study on the effects of progesterone and higher Estradiol-levels in the treatment of transgender individuals. Considering that this was now 1.5 years ago, that you had essentially finished recruiting of participants at the time, and that this is a fully pre-registered study, I am somewhat surprised that you still seem to not have published the results. I am sure that you are aware that many transgender individuals are awaiting these results not least because many endocrinologists even outside VUMC are refusing to prescribe progesterone, pointing to this supposedly soon to be available study. Naturally this is creating avoidable tension and I am aware of several trans women who have expressed the intention of self-medicating progesterone on top of their officially provided HRT regiments. It is with this background, that I’d like to know what the current status is and when we can expect the final publication. Best Regards, Dr. Fiona Weber</blockquote>Thoughts anyone? I figure that this is one of those places where dropping my PhD might be useful; I’m a bit uncertain about the ambiguity regarding my own situation: It’s obvious from my website (trivial to find from my email) that I’m a transgender cryptographer, not a medical doctor, but it’s not like I claim to be. It might come across as me implying it in a deceiving manner though, which could be harmful… So I’m not sure if I should just say it directly to avoid that scenario. <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/MedicalTransition" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MedicalTransition</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/HRT" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HRT</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/trans" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trans</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/DutchHellcare" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DutchHellcare</a>

Fiona :transbian: :autism: @WHY2025 DECT: 3591Just got a call from the fuckers in Amsterdam (VUMC) whether they need to keep me on their waiting list. I told them that I’m essentially through the entire process (no thanks to them), and should now be put on Radboud’s surgery waiting-list any day now and that they can remove me from theirs, since I prefer to work with psytrans. (Maybe I should have said “because unlike for you, I do have some trust into those people…”) I did ask them where in the waiting list they are currently and was told that they are now dealing with people who were referred to them in 2020… I also asked about the <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/progesterone" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#progesterone</a> study that they should really have published already, but the person who called me claimed to not really know anything about, go figure… <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/transition" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transition</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/medicaltransition" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#medicaltransition</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/DutchHellCare" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DutchHellCare</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/trans" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trans</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/VUMC" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VUMC</a>

Fiona :transbian: :autism: @WHY2025 DECT: 3591Just had another short call with psytrans… We were mostly talking about surgeries again and it again felt that things might be going somewhere… 😊 <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/transition" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transition</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/medicaltransition" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#medicaltransition</a>

Mx VerdaAnyone got experience with <a href="https://www.edennew.life/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.edennew.life/</a> ?I was gonna go with them, but then realised my gut was saying no for all the AI stuff on their website. (But then they sent a marketing e-mail about how they'd tried it but don't find LLM tools to be that helpful?)<a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trans</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transgender</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/TERFisland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TERFisland</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/transmasc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transmasc</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/transmen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transmen</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/transman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transman</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/transEnby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transEnby</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/NonBinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NonBinary</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/NonBinaryHRT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NonBinaryHRT</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/NonBinaryUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NonBinaryUK</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/HRT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HRT</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/HormoneReplacementTherapy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HormoneReplacementTherapy</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transition</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/MedicalTransition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MedicalTransition</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/LGBT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LGBT</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LGBTQ</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/LGBTQIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LGBTQIA</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/LGBTQIA2S" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LGBTQIA2S</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#queer</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/queers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#queers</a>

🏳️‍⚧️ Fiona :flag_lesbian:Can someone justify to me, why we are still dealing with GNRH-agnoists like Triptorelin for blocking T in the Netherlands and seemingly haven’t even looked into GNRH-antagonists like Degarelix, which don’t come with all that flare-bullshit and directly do the thing that we want them to do?When I read the list of side-effects of Degarelix on Wikipedia it looks pretty much like your standard run-of-the-mill “it’s an anti-androgen that’s administered by injection”-deal, which is pretty much the same with Triptorelin.How about we at least do a study about that? Or maybe we should just run that study in the DIY-community? The problem is that I didn’t see an offer on any of the grey-market pharmacies that I checked and therefore don’t know how expensive it would be to do that…<a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/HRT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HRT</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trans</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transition</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/transfem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transfem</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/medicaltransition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#medicaltransition</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/DiyHRT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DiyHRT</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/OpenHRT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenHRT</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/gnrhagonists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gnrhagonists</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/gnrhantagonists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gnrhantagonists</a>

🏳️‍⚧️ Fiona :flag_lesbian:Are you <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trans</a> and taking <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/HRT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HRT</a>? How did it affect your <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/EmotionalRange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EmotionalRange</a>? (Please boost for larger dataset.)There is a certain conventional wisdom, especially insofar as feminizing HRT is concerned, but it would be nice to have some data.For this poll, please answer only if you have been taking HRT for at least 2 month at a full dose (microdosing doesn’t count). It doesn’t matter whether you are <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/binarytrans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#binarytrans</a> or <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/nonbinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nonbinary</a>.Feminizing HRT means taking Estrogen either via high-dose monotherapy or with a testosterone blocker.Masculinizing HRT means taking Testosterone.Emotional range refers to how strong you feel emotions: A wide emotional range means that you cry easily and experience joy strongly, whereas a narrow emotional range means that emotions feel somewhat dull.More explanation in comments, especially if the answer is more complicated are of course very welcome.<a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transgender</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/transfem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transfem</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/transmasc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transmasc</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transition</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/medicalTransition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#medicalTransition</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/DiyHrt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DiyHrt</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/OpenHRT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenHRT</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/enby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#enby</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/poll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poll</a>

🏳️‍⚧️ Fiona :flag_lesbian:Anyone up to founding the “International Association for Evidence-based and Available Transgender Healthcare”, or something like that? Essentially an organization with a very fancy sounding name to publicly push for easy and safe access to <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/OpenHRT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenHRT</a>/ <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/DiyHrt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DiyHrt</a> until the medical systems across the world are properly fixed.Because, again: I really believe that the fact that most <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trans</a> people will at some point feel the need to DIY is an extremely strong argument for better access to <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/HRT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HRT</a>, if we get to make it. And sane cis people always acknowledge that when I talk to them. The science is also VERY clearly on our side here.The issue is that nobody wants to talk about it (to an extend rightly so, considering how dishonest the media are) and that barely anyone has the proper media-training to do so. With an org we might be able to change those things.Thoughts? Interest? Anyone?(Boosts for reach welcome)<a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transgender</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/transfem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transfem</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/transmasc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transmasc</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transition</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/medicaltransition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#medicaltransition</a>

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