Jorunn (she/her) @ WillStealYourUsername @piefed.blahaj.zone

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It's not quite that bad from what I can tell, but it is a bit harder for sure.

I use tankie the same way. Authoritarians and genocide deniers. It's a fairly common way to use the word by leftists. Libs and tankies muddying the definition sucks, but how else am I supposed to refer to tankies?

Edit: Also let's be honest. Tankies call everyone who calls them out a liberal whether it's warranted or not.

The community is for all trans people, even if there's mostly been transfem posts so far! I've also made sure to include some transmasc-specific resources in the resource list

I was sure there were papers on this but I might be mixing up what I've read about oral and sublingual with transdermal E.

I do know it's common to take gel more than once a day, but I can't actually back up the usefulness of doing this. It depends entirely on the half life of E when taken transdermally.

Here's a page which touches on this with oral and sublingual: https://transfemscience.org/articles/sublingual-e2-transfem/

Two pages on transdermal. They don't talk too much about half life here.
https://transfemscience.org/articles/oral-vs-transdermal-e2/
https://transfemscience.org/articles/high-dose-transdermal-e2/

I am certain it would result in more stable levels to take your dose split over the day, but the big question is if your levels go low enough over 24 hours for this to be necessary.

Edit: Also, since you're on a blocker you don't need high levels in order to suppress T so you have a larger range of good levels of E.

oh, that could be it! Hope you can get the sites working

More often is more better and gives more stable levels over time, and it does indeed depend on the dosage. With a blocker however I think 2 times a day is very common.

It's technically possible for some people to do mono with spray before orchi, but it's not recommended. I tried with gel and it wasn't a great experience. This is when applying often is most important.

Every guide? Please let me know which ones were broken.

Edit: One guide was broken because it was hosted as a google doc. The rest are just fine.

I don't mind. They were probably posted way back anyways

We do very actively remove bigoted content, but beyond that we're not really large enough to have many low quality posts locally. Some communities here very much embrace shitposting such as this one, so no moderation required there.

As others have mentioned this is why we got rid of downvotes! Our instance is a trans safe space and we often get downvote brigaded by phobes.

It means people on servers with downvotes enabled see the downvotes. Other users on blåhaj don't.

People can still express these things via comments and posts? Forums and others formats do perfectly well without down and upvotes. I've now been using blåhaj for quite a long time and I can't say I miss downvotes much.

We have disabled them which means we can't downvote and they don't federate to our servers. They more or less don't exist. Others servers can downvote and they will federate to other servers that have downvotes enabled.

We have disabled them which means we can't downvote and they don't federate to our servers. They more or less don't exist. Others servers can downvote and they will federate to other servers that have downvotes enabled.

Blåhaj has disabled downvotes 😔

I should maybe have been clearer and said the political science definition? What I described is at least what liberalism means in a more formal context. Other definitions are more informal and will vary based on region and context.

Slander implies it isn't true!

I'm talking about the dictionary definition of liberalism. Real implementations of ideologies ofc will diverge from the definitions. Again, the part of my comment about how liberalism isn't compatible with democracy and how liberalism is also defined by democracy should tell you a bit about why liberalism isn't always as good as the ideal :P

Additionally liberalism is a broader definition and there are more specific versions of it as well. A liberal party might not specifically claim to be a specific kind of liberalism, but they are likely not the most general version

Also! Liberalism varies from country to country. I'm not american and liberalism here is different from your liberalism. That should also be noted. It's a just as flawed ideology here mind you, but they aren't putting people in camps (but they are perfectly willing to work with the populists ofc).

Liberalism is not synonymous with democracy and refers to a democratic government that isn't too powerful, doesn't decide too much what people may or may not do (religious freedom, socially liberal, free speech, etc), has open borders, and a very free capitalist market (only minimal involvement by the government to ensure no monopolies). It should be more or less something like this, it's been a while since I last checked the definitions.

In a leftist context the criticisms against liberalism are usually aimed at the capitalist aspects of liberalism while conservatives are opposed to the socially liberal parts (and any part that is supposed to counteract corruption). Leftists in general dislike liberalism and feel it ultimately ends in fascism because of the incentives and structures in capitalist societies. The main goal in captitalism after all is greed; that the few should amass wealth and property via exploiting others. Monopolization and hierarchies is built into capitalism at its very core and we consider this to not be compatible with democracy (at the very least in the long run).

There are more criticisms and I'm sure others are better at explaining them, but the main thing is that we don't believe liberalism is capable of implementing true lasting democracy, and that when it temporarily does it's at the expense of people elsewhere.