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Furthermore, the brain is not separate from biology; it's a body part the same as any other organ. There's plenty of research to suggest (not prove yet) that gender identity correlates to where various parts of the brain lie on a masculine-feminine spectrum, forming an individual mosaic, like a fingerprint or snowflake. Trans women are biological women in every possible sense of the phrase, and this wording is obviously chosen to de-legitimize gender identity.

The fact that only two apps were removed has me suspecting there may be a reason other than them being LGBT. Obviously it's possible they left up other apps so that they could point to them and say they aren't being homophobic, but I'm not sure that's the case.

One Chinese-language article speculated that the reason for the removal is that these are social media apps which don't have real-name authentication. (https://www.bluezz.net/2025/11/09/50291.html)

According to another it was announced in September that there would be a crackdown on social media in general. (https://www.rfi.fr/cn/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD/20251111-%E8%8B%B9%E6%9E%9C%E8%AF%81%E5%AE%9E-%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E8%A6%81%E6%B1%82%E4%B8%8B%E6%9E%B6%E4%B8%A4%E6%AC%BE%E9%A3%8E%E8%A1%8C%E7%9A%84%E7%94%B7%E5%90%8C%E7%BA%A6%E4%BC%9Aapp)

A CNN article says that "compliance issues" and "vulgar content" are the reason. For context, steamy makeout scenes are not allowed on Chinese TV, and I imagine saucy selfies could be considered a violation. (https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/china/china-gay-dating-apps-removed-intl-hnk)

While I'm not trying to argue that China is a super cool supportive place for queer people, I am open to the idea that this has nothing to do with it, and that Western media is very happy to have anything negative to report about China.

It happened to me. My skin was chronically dry and painful my whole adult life, but I'm magically normal on T. I also sweat more and have to wash my face multiple times a day.

It also really helped my emotional regulation not by changing my emotions, but moderating how intense they feel. It takes a lot more to make me cry now. Stopping the menstrual cycle was part of that as well, and I've not had a single yeast infection or hagfish attack on T.

I sometimes joke to myself that I'm just faking the whole trans thing to gain access to these treatments.

While that is traditionally correct, I prefer to think of succubus, incubus, and concubus as relating to whether they top. My demons are very progressive.

I think that'd turn out roughly as successfully as trying to change the police from the inside. They're just going to make you go away.

Isn't it nicer with pills though? I don't know anything about estrogen options. Is it only once in a while like with testosterone, so you don't have to remember?

I don't understand why two people shouldn't help each other with their medication. It's sweet to take care of each other, whether they're partners or just friends.

It's interesting that God makes everyone's genitals perfectly, but he keeps messing up hearts, lips, chromosomes, spines... I guess pobody's nerfect. (Except for me, because God made me that way.)

Once codified into law, would the recent executive order not invalidate the legal identification of everyone who doesn't have their sex assigned at birth listed?

A [State] department webpage that described how people could change their gender marker was taken offline, and Chase Strangio, an ACLU lawyer, said it’s unlikely that any new application to change the gender marker on a passport will be approved.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-transgender-passports-prisons-eggs-sperm-da1d1d280658a8c85c57cfec2f30cefb