LadyAutumn

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[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago

I'm saving for vocal surgery personally. I've voice trained with professionals and by myself for years. My voice can pass for 5 minute conversations with massive amounts of effort, but any longer than tnat and theres no way for me to maintain it. My voice also gets exhausted very quickly doing it.

Lots of people genuinely can get by on training alone. But others can't, and surgical options have expanded a lot over the last few years. Something like 60% of trans fems report dissatisfaction with their voice after transition. Read a study on that a while ago. A lot of trans fems just cope. It's worth trying training first, but surgery also exists and is worth looking into.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 55 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Demoted for illegally kidnapping a child. Wild. Better than nothing I guess.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

Same. I actually get very wet when I'm worked up haha. But yeah it varies day to day but usually I have a little bit of clear discharge so I wear liners to bed and sometimes during the day.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah I recall you having mentioned before. It's interesting how that happens. I'm still on a low dose of blockers, pending some more blood work and follow up to see if I can take less.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago

I have discharge sometimes. Usually the day after I dilate in the morning I'll have some. My vagina does self lubricate, so it happens at times.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 1 month ago (25 children)

I am extremely happy. I had surgery last April. I never honestly believed that being this happy was possible. I hardly recognize the person I was pre-op and it has affected every possible area of my life. I'm so much more confident in myself, so much more comfortable in my body, and I can fully see the way that I used to passively feel dysphoric literally constantly no matter the circumstances. Having a penis was severely detrimental to my mental health and made it essentially impossible to feel at peace in my skin. I love who I am today, I love my body in spite of it's flaws, and I feel like I can express myself in ways I never could before and like that shines through and my relationships with everyone in my life have become a lot healthier as a result. It's weird sounding to say that, but yeah not being in constant dysphoria has changed everything haha. Yes I'm very very happy and have no regrets whatsoever.

I had hypergranulation on part of my labia in the short term after my surgery date. I had to travel quite a distance in less than ideal circumstances only 10 days post op. In the process of that significant strain was put on my labia and some of my stitches opened. It was a relatively small area on the inside of my vaginal canal and the bottom of one side of my labia. It looked pretty scary at first but healed mostly fine on its own without intervention. Not entirely though, and due to complications I ended up having to get some granulation tissue treated with silver nitrate. Took around 6 months of silver nitrate treatments every 3 weeks for it to fully go away. I don't have any granulation tissue anymore, though, and I was at the point of being fully healed as of around 14 months post-op.

Yes, I am able to orgasm. There's a lot I could say there, but yeah, I can. Sex in general, is infinitely more enjoyable for me now. Learning how sex with a vulva functions has been an experience to say the least but with patience and time I've been figuring myself out haha. My sexuality and relationship I have with sex has changed a lot since surgery. I think my first orgasm was around 4 months post op.

Nothing unique no. Pads are annoying but I only had to deal with them for the first 2 months. Still need liners sometimes but they're not nearly as uncomfortable.

The massive difference that having no T made in my life. I experienced a big jump in breast growth, a shift in my body and facial fat placement, a surge in hair growth especially my hair line. Like my body not producing any T made me hormone levels a lot more stable and a lot higher consistently. The difference has been pretty wild honestly. I'm mostly used to it now but a lot of people have remarked on it.

I also noticed at first the lack of like. Anything there. And I'd also notice just how often I used to feel it being there and just sorta tune it out. The novelty of it is short lived and by this point the thought that I had one at all feels distant, like I know that I did but I'm losing my memory of what it was like having one.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wow what a comment lmao

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I mean, the statement "those young women, or many of them" is already pretty objectifying. But I also question what he can mean. Is it random selfies taken by women? Is it just seeing women's bodies devoid of context and sexualizing them? Because that unquestionably would be objectifying, yeah.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago

Horrifying, and one day after the government had approved restrictions on the rights of queer people.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Are you saying that genocide committed by the United States is fine? Or are you saying that I am fine with genocide committed by the United States?

You also didn't answer the question. Answer the question.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 months ago

There's not a lot of genocides that are entirely ignored historically speaking. Loads of nations who deny them, and use propaganda machines to spread disinformation about them, but global scale denial is not really possible.

Genocidal acts are not dependent on the scale of those actions. What matters is the acts themselves and the intent behind them. The context of the situation in which those actions occur is also a consideration. But we recognize thousands of genocides throughout modern history. The Armenian Genocide is the progenitor of modern conceptions of Genocide, but the term is retroactively applied to lots of historical cases of ethnic cleansing.

The actions Israel is taking are and have been genocidal. This situation is not new. Israel has massacred Palestinians en mass for nearly 80 years. They are taking systematic actions to kill Palestinians, to disrupt their way of life, to destroy their culture, to grass their history, to steal their land and their homes, to mass incarcerate them, to mass sterilize them, to forcefully relocate them, and to cause mass scale healthcare emergencies by way of starvation and dehydration under prolonged siege and blockade. These are all very common actions under imperialist colonial regimes.

This is a genocide. The only reason there is pushback on that is because the nation in question is Israel. If this happened elsewhere in the middle east there would be 0 hesitation to label it as genocide. The existence of a terrorist organization does not provide justification for genocide and ethnic cleansing.

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