naom3 [she/her]
If I have figured out how to love myself now pre medical transition is it foolish to try to fix what’s not broken?
Don’t think of transitioning in terms of what’s broken or what you need to do, but think about it in terms of what makes you happy. Do you want your body to be more feminine? Would you prefer that? Then go for it. You don’t need to medically transition to be trans or to call yourself a transfemme, but if e sounds appealing to you and you like the changes it brings then that’s really all the reason you need. Yeah, it probably won’t make you feel whole or solve all your problems on its own, but if it’s right for you then it might help you feel at least a little better and a little more at peace with yourself and you deserve that. Like terminalencounter said, the changes are slow and very reversible at first, so you can definitely just try it and see if you like it
Somewhat off topic, but this is one of the reasons why I hate centring dysphoria as the reason for transitioning the way transmeds do. Not that addressing dysphoria isn’t a completely valid motivation for transitioning, but the idea of transitioning as a medical process designed to alleviate dysphoria muddies the waters and leads people to think in terms of what they strictly need in order to address their discomfort instead of what they actually want
One hundred percent of vaginal specimens obtained from transmasculine individuals on testosterone therapy (21/21 cases) demonstrated prostatic metaplasia.
Damn. Small sample size, but still that’s pretty neat. Side note, don’t the skene’s glands also become more like prostate tissue? That would make sense since they are homologous iirc
Did… did they tell the ai to make her look blacker? Like I’m not imagining it right?
To be fair, it’s mainly just some basic shell knowledge and stuff that you can learn by following the links on the guide (as well as the all important man pages) so if you want to give it another shot then don’t feel discouraged. That said, it’s actually completely normal to want a system that doesn’t require you to do your own research.
An alternative, if you want something that more thoroughly walks you through all the steps and is designed to actually teach you how it all works is to use linux from scratch and then install dpkg and apt, but beware that, while lfs is designed to actually teach you how everything works instead of just assuming you know everything, building your entire system from source is way more work
Yeah it’d be helpful, but none of this stuff is actually specific to arch so I think the install guide just assumes you already know it. That’s the thing about arch, it’s not actually that complex, it just doesn’t prioritize accessibility which isn’t necessarily a good thing. Like, the developers describe it as a “medium to advanced distro” which, more so than the assigned difficulty level, kinda shows how the developer approach it in that they think of difficulty as just another option in distro choice rather than an objective flaw. It’s definitely not for everyone. It can be really fun if you’re actually into tinkering around with it, but it’s definitely not for everyone and there’s actually a lot of advanced users who do know how everything works, but still prefer to use other distros just because they don’t want to go through the effort of maintaining an arch system (like the nerdiest, most tech proficient guy I know just uses kubuntu lol). That said, don’t let this discourage you from running if you want to. It can be a really rewarding experience building putting together your system from scratch and it really is doable if you just put in a little effort to figure it out, and the wiki really is good at explaining how everything works (I’ve only had it bork itself by deleting the kernel during an upgrade once! )
Thank you btw!!!
Your welcome!