It does hurt less after the first/second times. At first I did my feet, lower legs. Then stopped. Knees are particularly bad. Thighs hurt too and I didn't get to the top of them yet! I really just wanted smooth legs if seen under a skirt.
I put a podcast on, recommend: philosophy tube (which is by an incredible trans woman) - gives you loads to think about to distract from the pain.
Never try epilating your hands would be my advice. Felt like fire ants. (I imagine)
PSA I'm pretty sure epilators are not safe on male-typical faces.
Believing in a binary is ignoring factual reality. It would be like saying we shouldn't believe in carbon or oxygen in the universe because 99.8 percent of all elements are either hydrogen or helium.
love this!
Haha, yes quite.
Extracts from 2nd link that stood out to me
most evidence to date reveals a much larger contribution of sex-related hormones compared to sex-related genes to the sexual differentiation of the rodent brain and behavior
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studies revealed that feminization and masculinization are independent processes rather than two poles of a continuum
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And adding to the first link:
[brains whose features align clearly at either male or female end are] low (0% to 8%) and much lower than the number of mosaic brains (23% to 53%), that is, brains in which at least one feature was at the “femaleend” zone and one feature was at the “male-end” zone...
analyses [of MRIs of more than 1,400 human brains from four datasets] of internal consistency reveal that brains with features that are consistently at one end of the "maleness-femaleness" continuum are rare.
Love this statement.💜
Yes of course it is. But thanks for the links, will read.
I'm not presenting anything absolute or probably new. Just a personal take on a correlation between where my gender is and how strongly I feel it, at the different points of my fluidity.
Yup! I considered drawing a locus but decided that a line said enough.
It's been a useful realisation for me that while my gender fluctuates, I feel it less when I'm feeling towards the male side.
Yeah, I'd say don't do your hands either. Like fire ants!!