Saying nobody should tell anyone to end their life (transphobe or not) is NOT “defending transphobia”.

Take a closer look at the mod log in question and have a look at what the OP actually said, and how they said it.

The policy is on being a safe space for trans people and having zero tolerance for transphobia.

I also said it has a zero tolerance policy for defending transphobes, which is what got the OP pinged.

Being opposed to telling transphobes to end their lives isn’t transphobic

I’m not sure I understand how that relates to my comment?

I was addressing the bit where you framed a consistent and long standing instance policy as off the cuff, arbitrary moderation.

This took place on a trans instance, that explicitly exists to provide a space for trans people that puts their needs and safety first. It has a zero tolerance policy for transphobia, for defending transphobes, for “just asking questions” transphobia etc.

And because of the nature of the fediverse, folk who don’t want that experience have many other instances to choose from.

It’s a specifically chosen and enforced policy.

The truth is, there is virtually no research on the impacts of HRT over that length of time. There is no way for a doctor to be able to tell you anything authorative about your experience, because the best we have is anecdotal experience from folk in the community. Any doctor telling you anything with certainty about the impacts of HRT 10 years in, is coming from a position of bias (whether that bias is positive or negative).

If it is the consequence of HRT, you can experiment with dosages to find out. Reduce your E and/or T blocker and see how it goes. But also, talk to your doctor about possibilities other than HRT that you can explore. If they are absolutely insistent that it’s HRT (or if they’re absolutely insistent that it’s not) then they are passing off personal bias as fact.

The same goes with me. You shouldn’t believe me or anyone else when they tell you it’s not HRT, because it could be. But it could also be something else entirely, so you need a doctor that is willing to look in to it, because most trans fem folk do not share the experiences you’re having.

When an eel bites your eye, that’s a moray

For what it’s worth, I started around the same time as you, and aside from dry skin, I don’t experience these, so it’s maybe not be as simple as HRT.

Are you on a testosterone blocker? A too high dose of T blocker is more likely to be the culprit.

Other people prefer equatorial climates with lots of sun, humidity, and storms that rush in and rush out again.

This is me!

“their lifestyle”

And in to the bin with you

Just saying, blahaj zone has a fediverse based photography instance http://photos.blahaj.zone/

I’d love to see more people upgrading photos there than just me :)

As you’re seeing from the replies, body hair is variable. For me, I’ve got thick dark hair, and before HRT I had hair on my back, chest, shoulders, the top of my feet and the back of my hands and dark arm and leg hair

HRT got rid of everything except for my face and legs. My face responded to laser though and if I don’t shave my legs (which I generally don’t), I look like any other dark haired woman with unshaven legs.

Statler and Waldorf!

Differences are inconsequential aside from image manipulation

Well, that’s the one I care about, so that works out well :)

It really wasn’t. My body fat levels were athlete level low, my heart health was good and my cholesterol’s were good. Though I don’t know how much of that was related to my running to be fair

You’re welcome to make one!

That’s one of the reasons I ended up eating like trash. Fatty foods are calories dense foods, and that made it easier to get enough calories in a single meal, rather than trying to eat enough food throughout the day that wasn’t as calorie dense.

I won’t pretend that was the only reason I ate like trash, but it was definitely a part of it

Eh, I look at it more as who you’re going to be telling this to. Someone who is fat and starting exercise is never going to have the endurance to burn off their caloric intake.

It depends on your timing. In 18 months, I went from obese to able to run 5km in under 20 minutes.

It is also the reason why a lot of athletes get fat if they stop exercising since they are used to the trash diets and can no longer burn it off.

And that’s exactly what happened to me when I got injured!

I wasn’t trying to be pedantic as such. It’s just that I found fitness when I was on a path to trying to bring my body fat down to a level I was happier with. I had originally though “losing weight” was healthy, but then I read that being active is more beneficial than losing weight, so I thought I needed to include a bit of fitness training in there.

And then when I started running, to my great surprise, I found out that I loved it, and I kept running. I ended up SUPER SUPER in to running. And one of the things that I discovered was that after a period of trying to watch how much I eat, when my training peaked, I was often struggling to get enough calories to match my burn.

And I often joked to myself back then that if I’d have known I could have outrun my bad diet, I’d have started there :P

But in all seriousness, as you said, it’s not possible to sustain. Age, injury, decreased training levels, eventually, something happens and your calorie burn returns to more regular levels, and then you’re not outrunning it anymore

Yeah, I looked like a piece of leather wrapped around a stick when I was training that hard. And I pretty much just lived on takeout

And yeah, 10 years later, older, no longer anywhere near that fit, and even as I train for a half marathon, it’s hard to shift my weight to where I want it to be for my race