https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/11/12/educational-psychologists-open-letter-cass-review-trans/

The letter was co-authored by Dr Dan O’Hare, a senior lecturer at the University of Bristol, Dr Cora Sargeant, a senior teaching fellow at the University of Southampton, and trainee educational psychologist Christie Ghent.

I'm having trouble locating a copy of the open letter. The pink news article quotes it but doesn't link to it. The author's linked in only posted the pink news article.

Does anybody have research links for scientists/health experts reviewing the Cass review?

I've recently heard the phrase "anything that can be taken sublingual can be taken rectally".

Is this true and can it be applied to estrogen tablets without a shell/coating? Seems like it would bet the swallowing effect from saliva.

And a follow up question, does it need to be jammed in all the way or just past the sphincter muscle?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_self-examination

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diagnostics/3990-breast-self-exam

Edit: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/u/Fiona points out that WHO doesn't recommend self breast exams. According to the wikipedia article I linked, you could self exam every single day and suddenly find a walnut (Susan Love), and self exams have not been proven to save lives.

Girl Subscription Pill Monotherapy Under Tongue. 6 months after leaving the intro level dose.

Some choice quotes from the last time I saw a thread like this:

• When I was 8 someone told me that girls go to college to get more knowledge, and boys go to jupiter to get more stupider. And obviously I took that personally ReverendPancakes
• I grew bewbs from the COVID vaccine and decided it was easier to just run with it. DepressivesBrot
• Smaller hitboxes Fantasygoria
• I drank tap water and soy milk.
• life was too easy, so i increased the difficulty setting and this is what happened hdj103
• Clearly because women have such an easier time in life DrHob0
• According to my Mormon ultra right wing father: I have an infatuation with the female body and was bitten by the social contagion bug and there is no cure. The reasoning for this belief is I once told him I don't think that people who watch porn are bad/going to hell, and I didn't see it as a problem for someone to watch it. So to recap. I watched porn. Saw naked woman. Went wow v pretty I wanna look like that. Then took hormones👍 mist_wraith_
• I personally felt that my safe access to public bathrooms was too damn high froglipsmulligan
• I couldn't get a goth gf so I became the goth gf A_Sneaky_Dickens
• Better bouyancy when swimming Blah-Blah-Blah-2023
• To bring down western civilization. MyynMyyn
• Because I was a hitman for organized crime but I got caught. Transitioning was my only option when I went into witness protection when I ratted out my employers. Dakotaisapotato
• So I can balance my phone on my boobs instead of having to hold it when I’m relaxing and watching YouTube Somethingintheway245
• I wanted to study tiddy jiggle physics for animation purposes DaAwesomeNeko
• Um, girls rule, boys drool, duh. MyconautAlien
• I signed up for a trial gender & forgot to cancel. Better_Image_5859
• There were too many dudes in my field (engineering) so I got auto-balanced. Cassie_Darkborn
• So I'd be less embarrassed when choosing a female character in games. throwaway_eclipse1
• A drag queen started reading a book out loud while I was in the same room. ATransFemalePerson
• My eyelashes were too long to not corncrakey
• To get cheaper auto insurance rates 👍 Various_Ad_4533
• Because that shark plushie was just too damn cute not to buy 🏳️‍⚧️🦈 KingOfRedLlamas
• I started programming and just accidentally became a girl. swiftsorceress
• I used a bunch of drugs and wanted to move on to something harder. So I started taking estrogen. Kept chasing the high. Oops, now I have tits and an ass. FecalAlgebra
• I wanted conservatives to have strong opinions on what I do with my body. ususetq
• Because I sarcastically said "well I have the legs for it" every time the prospect of me wearing women's clothing came up in conversation in high school. I had to continue the bit. MC_White_Thunder
• No one ever talked to me at the bar and I got tired of buying my own drinks.
• Because I got infected with “The Gay(tm)” as I have no agency of my own SpicyNovaMaria
• I accidentally checked the wrong box on the presurgical paperwork and woke up with boobs Wzd_JA
• In case I have to kill the Witch-king of Angmar SmoothSoup

Title. Need to loose weight. Already going to be hard enough loosing weight in the first place but also keep getting a nagging thought that I'll impede my breast development. Currently on HRT.

I know loosing weight for my health is more important than my breasts. Still hits me hard though that they won't develop if I'm on caloric restriction. Am I being insane or uninformed?

Someone told me that we're only getting our "extra rights" taken away

I couldn't think of any "extra" rights that we had before, but then I realized it is a bit unfair that we're all so beautiful, smart and talented.

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Updated January 16th, 2025:

Dear VoiceKit Pioneers,

Thank you for your interest in VoiceKit and for being part of this incredible journey. Your enthusiasm and support have meant so much to us as we’ve worked toward creating a tool to help empower you to meet your voice training goals.

After careful consideration, we’ve made the difficult decision to postpone the development of VoiceKit. This decision wasn’t made lightly and reflects our deep commitment to delivering a product that meets our Unclockable standards of quality and usefulness.

Unclockable Was Founded on an Idea: We Deserve Quality.

As we evaluated the next stages of development, we realized that achieving the level of excellence you deserve would require more time, focus, and resources than we can currently sustain. Instead of rushing forward, we’ve chosen to take a step back, ensuring we can bring VoiceKit to life in a sustainable way that fulfills its true potential.

A Note for Our Beta Program Participants

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We deeply value your understanding, patience, and grace as we take this time to recalibrate. Should you have any questions or feedback, please don’t hesitate to reach out—I’m here to listen.

This isn’t goodbye—it’s “not yet.” We can’t wait to welcome you back when the time is right, with a VoiceKit app that’s even better than you imagined.

With gratitude,

Maddie Co-Founder, Unclockable

There is no limit to what you can do, when you keep your appointment with who you are becoming.

Abstract

Purpose: Chronic gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) with sublingual estradiol (SLE) has not been studied. We aimed to compare GAHT with SLE only, to combined oral (CO) estradiol and cyproterone acetate, in treatment-naive trans women.

Methods: Twenty-two trans women enrolled into either the CO arm or the SLE-only arm (0.5 mg four times daily) in this 6-month prospective study. Anthropometric and laboratory variables were collected at baseline and 3 and 6 months. At the study beginning and end, body composition was measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and bioelectrical impedance, and gender dysphoria, sexual desire, and function were assessed by validated questionnaires.

Results: Subjects in the SLE were older, 26.3±5.8 years versus 20.1±2.3 years, p=0.006. All anthropometric, body composition, and laboratory variables were identical at baseline. Although dysphoria appeared greater, and sexual function lower at baseline in the CO group, this canceled out after age adjustment. Both treatments induced similar biochemical and hormonal changes. Creatinine, hemoglobin and cholesterol decreased significantly, while testosterone was suppressed to the same level in both groups: 3.22 [1.47-5.0] nmol/L in the SLE group and 2.41 [0.55-8.5] nmol/L in the CO, p=0.65. Significant changes in body composition toward a more feminine body were noted in both groups. Dysphoria did not significantly improve in either group, while sexual desire and function decreased at six months in both, p<0.001.

Conclusions: Both treatments achieved similar clinical changes. At this stage, SLE, which repeatedly induces alarming excursions of serum estradiol throughout the day, appears to offer no advantage over the CO approach.