I live for high waisted shorts and skirts. Also high waisted skinny jeans / jeggings? Incredible. High waist gives me such flattering hip definition. I dont wear mid/low rise very often.
I'm sorry you lost access to your support group. Youre absolutely welcome to participate in this community but the culture fostered in that community is not accepted here. The language used in that community is not permitted in this community.
This community is also explicitly supportive of all gender diverse people, including non-binary and agender people. I know that 4tran has a long history of transmedicalism and demonization of non-binary people. That is categorically unacceptable here and will result in moderator action.
If you can abide by that, you're absolutely welcome here. This space is for all transfeminine people, and we work hard to maintain its safety and accessibility for everyone.
This 100%. I went down a size in like everything, but mostly cause I was just wearing stuff that fit for the first time lol
This community is supportive of DIY, and I dont have any problem with this being asked here. I would advise any responders to send supplier links via DMs. Progesterone and estrogen aren't controlled substances, so I'm not really that concerned about people inquiring here.
I think in the sense of "global elite athletics", no it by definition isn't fair. At all levels of sports funding is a significant entry barrier to elite competition. Biological advantages are everywhere too, irrespective of gender. Height, leg height, wing span, lung capacity, heart size, spinal curvature, basically every kind of biological parameter can create an advantage over someone else.
Thats an advantage those athletes havent earned. You don't earn a biological advantage, you just have it. You don't earn being born to a wealthy family who can finance your strict comprehensive training regimen, you just are born to one. If sports is about fairness, that is to say like, a level playing field anyone can come along and work really hard and compete, then no sports is not fair. Some people will be better than others no matter how hard they work.
Fairness in the sense of this discussion, is competition within your gender. Critics of trans inclusion are not objecting on biological grounds, they are objecting to a trans woman competing with cisgender women because they do not agree that she is a woman. These arguments about fairness are almost never applied to cis women with height or wingspan advantages. Just to trans women of any kind for competing at any level of competition.
If fairness is the goal, then sports needs to be extensively categorized based on all the biological parameters that give you an advantage. Or else some kind of combined leaderboard where everyones advantage or handicap is accounted for. Athletics competitions for people with disabilities already implement a combined leaderboard system in this way.
But no one is interested in actually being fair. They're interested in who does the absolute best. Who is the absolute best woman and who is the absolute best man. The disagreement is that trans women are women. There's nothing else they're concerned with precluding certain women from participating. They just disagree that trans women are women and therefore believe that in a "whos the absolute best woman at xyz" competition trans women should be excluded. To say that its a matter of fairness is demonstrably false.
Oh, and also your comment breaks one of the rules of this community. I'm leaving it up because I think it presents an opportunity to educate on exactly why this belief is wrong. But further comments to this effect will be removed. Please follow the rules of this community.
Women are generally less fashion restricted in western culture, but idk if id go as far as to say masculine clothes are objectively boring. Lots of people enjoy masculine fashion.
They did originally, the term has just become loaded as time goes on and so they've generally switched to the term "gender critical", amongst others.
Is radical a bad word? Its use is generally associated with revolutionary politics. The usage of the term by TERFs stems from second wave feminist theory. They have to specify that they are Trans Exclusionary to distinguish them from radical feminists as a whole, who are not necessarily Trans exclusionary.
I'm considering this and how best we can implement a practical solution to this. One possibility would be to add a rule asking that timeline posts add some or all pictures not in the main post but in the comments. Another would be to remove image posts entirely and direct that traffic towards other communities.
I think the NSFW tag is a good idea, if our community didnt already have a rule banning NSFW image posts. I also would prefer to keep the NSFW tag connected with NSFW content cause I think starting to use it for other things would diminish its use for actually filtering out NSFW content.
Ive had incredible luck thrifting. I usually go once every 2 weeks and only take items I really like. Early on I stuck to sports bras cause theyre more forgiving as you grow, so they last a bit longer.
A line silhouettes tend to look good when your hips aren't super wide, as your fat moves around tho your hips will fill out. More than anything have fun with it. Try new clothes outside your comfort zone. Get lots of accessories too!! Putting together an outfit with accessories is so much fun. Gives you the opportunity to further express yourself 😊
Not OP, but i can say 2 years post op it feels weird to think I used to have something there lol
A few things.
Firstly, OP specifically said "Ideally without disclosing I'm trans". Your whole comment was unnecessary first off from the outset.
Secondly, you have grossly overstated medical necessity here. Hormonally trans women who have been on HRT are functionally much closer to cis women than cis men. Trans status is rarely relevant to any medical treatment that isn't specifically about reproductive organs.
Thirdly, trans status is a matter of life or death in the vast majority of the world. Medical necessity, even if it were as significant as you've tried to portray it as, means nothing if you get arrested or killed.