Lots of interesting trends happening right now in transphobia. Rowling is temporarily refocusing on the ace community. Intersex people are being discussed on the floor of the Texas House. Here’s my called shot. I think a lot of transphobes, especially politicians, are going to start dropping the pretense of caring about “biological sex”.

The truth is that the biology doesn’t support them and they’re increasingly being called on it. Half assed ally libs are learning how to bring up intersex conditions and push back against the idea that it’s an immutable binary. Yet even the christofascists pretend to give a shit about what biology says when making their appeals to biblical truth, referring to “biological sex” and “chromosomes” in the same breath as claiming they’re speaking the word of an ancient god whose prophets had no such concept. I think that particular mask is gonna come off real soon.

They don’t care what doctors say. They don’t care what biologists say. People are learning their talking points. So next iteration, they’re gonna come up with a new term like “god-given sex” to really make clear what they’re getting at.

The Supreme Court has eased the procedure for correcting gender in documents. What changes does the new resolution make, and what absurdity has been eliminated?

On March 4, 2025, the Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court passed a landmark resolution on the procedure for correcting gender in documents. The change eliminates the need to sue parents in a lawsuit, which was previously required in metric sex determination proceedings.

What will change?

Previously, metric sex determination proceedings were litigated, which meant that there had to be two parties: the plaintiff and the defendants. The defendants were usually the parents of the transgender person, and sometimes the spouse or children. This construction was artificial and resulted from a general provision of the Code of Civil Procedure (Article 189), which allowed lawsuits to be initiated to establish different cases.

“Metric sex determination proceedings were not regulated by law. Until now, it was held in court in a trial, which required two parties. Such a course of action was set by a Supreme Court resolution of June 22, 1989.” - Anna Grudzień-Kurpiewska, legal counsel, explains in a commentary for Wprost.pl.

New solution

The new Supreme Court resolution introduces significant changes. Gender correction proceedings will now be conducted in a non-trial mode, which means there is no need to create a sham dispute between the parties.

“The Supreme Court said that due to the personal nature of these cases, the determination of metric sex should be done in non-trial proceedings. This removes the need for bilateral proceedings and the creation of a fictitious dispute between the transgender person and the parents,” explains Anna Grudzień-Kurpiewska

In non-procedural proceedings, only the transgender person will have an interest. The exception is if the person is married, in which case the circle of interested persons will also include his or her spouse. As Grudzień-Kurpiewska points out, “An existing marriage would become, if the application is granted, a same-sex marriage, which is incompatible with Article 18 of the Polish Constitution.”

Eliminating absurdities

The previous solution was seen as absurd because it required suing the parents, which was not justified in a real dispute.

Anna Grudzień-Kurpiewska adds, “According to the Supreme Court, there are no arguments to justify the claim that the outcome of gender determination cases involves their parents. As a result, the proceedings will proceed exclusively with the participation of a transgender person.”

The new Supreme Court resolution has eliminated this absurdity, allowing transgender people to make gender adjustments without involving their parents in court proceedings. As Anna Grudzień-Kurpiewska comments, “This solution is more flexible and takes into account the personal nature of these cases, which is important for people who are going through this process.”

In summary, the Supreme Court's March 4, 2025 resolution simplifies the gender correction procedure by eliminating the need to sue parents and introducing a non-trial procedure. This solution is seen as groundbreaking and more in line with the needs of transgender people.

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tfw this shithole is doing better on trans rights than the US, I was genuinely shocked when this came out

For privacy I don’t wanna say which country.

But lemme go straight into the point, I’m genuinely pissed off from this shitty country I live and it’s extreme hate towards basically anyone not aligned with their views such as anti-lgbt,at this point I’m convinced the society I live are weirdly obsessed with transgenders and always use the “Xyz trans person brainwashing their kids!!”thingy when they see a transgender couples let’s say and having their own children and all. like dude tf you even want just mind your own business???

Im also someone who wants to get bottom surgery so bad. But my conservative family are obviously strongly opposing it even if I didn’t heard them talking about transgenders, I also slowly started to distrust my family, avoiding them as much as I can, and trying to find a way to like break their restrictions on my life. I’m basically living in the most shittiest country, in a most weird and bizarre family with weird rules, I’m 16 and yet I can’t even afford a phone number and access to social media and have to secretly using it without them noticing. And on top of all that I wanna get bottom surgery. Makes my life absolutely messy and fucked up

Didn't have a chance to write up a detailed post, either on a fruit or the topic I was originally thinking about. I think they're neat and they taste good.

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A question for the home brewers out there who know a lot of chem. One of the biggest problems with home brewing is verifying that the raw active ingredients you order are in fact what you ordered. You order estradiol enanthate or some other ingredient from a manufacturer, and an unknown white powder shows up at your door. There are crude testing methods available like the melting point test, but they are limited. There are also testing services like janoshik out there, but they're expensive and involve shipping samples internationally. With shipping, testing a single specimen with a service like janoshik can be $100-$200.

I know dedicated dedicated optical spectrophotometers like these exist. While accurate, these units are big, bulky, expensive, and not really suitable for the kinds of simple compact labs home brewers use.

I stumbled across this video describing a little cheap spectrometer available from a small shop in China. The videos I can find of it only show measuring the spectra of various light bulbs. However, I'm wondering if it's possible to use such a device to measure the purity of specimens of estradiol enanthate and other HRT medications.

I'm not an expert in spectrometry by any means, but I am aware of the general process. With a dedicated desktop spectrophotometer, you create a calibration/standard curve by measuring the spectrum of solutions of different concentrations prepared with a sample of known purity. Then you use that curve to measure the concentration of your unknown specimen.

But the big desktop units are designed from the ground up to do this. You place solutions in dedicated transparent cuvettes. Everything is in a single fixed unit designed for this purpose.

But is it possible to do something similar using just a simple spectrometer? Could you maybe buy such a spectrometer, bolt it to a surface, and cobble together some means of holding a cuvette? If you could fix the cuvette, light source, and detector a fixed distances from each other, then perhaps you could use such a device to cobble together a basic simple optical spectrophotometer?

Would this actually work? My thought is that while this wouldn't be the most accurate spectrophotometer out there, ultimately it doesn't matter. The goal of testing raws is not to measure their concentration to four significant figures. The goal is simply to verify you have the right compound and to ensure that it hasn't been cut with fillers. Even if such a setup had an error rate of a few percent, this would still be perfectly acceptable for raws testing.

I hope I'm explaining this question well enough. I'm really just wondering if a simple cheap usb spectrometer like this one here could be used or modified into a device that can measure raws concentrations.

Hello /c/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns, I hope this is the right place for this kind of post. I'm apart of a leftist LGBTQ discord and recently become acquainted with a young trans woman going through hard times right now. From what I've read and what she's told me, a lot of their LGBTQ activism funding was tied to USAID, and with gone she is feeling very isolated.

I made this account to try and find any resources or organizations or experience with LGBTQ rights in the Balkans, so please do DM me if you have any advice or kind words I can pass along. Thanks very much, big love to my trans comrades

Just realized the other day that it's gotten a lot worse. Not bald, but thinned on the crown to the point where the skin is very visible compared to the rest of my head. Then I took a picture this morning when my hair was still wet from the shower and it looked really awful even beyond the crown...

If I were a guy I could probably make peace with it, but I feel like I'm gonna need all the help I can get to appear feminine and this is so obviously not helping.

I'm getting blood work tomorrow to evaluate how my HRT is going which may shed some light on the situation particularly with T levels, but idk if they'll test for DHT. I ran out of finasteride like a week ago and stupidly didn't refill my prescription until just now, but the extent of my hair loss suggests it's not just from that. Might see if dutasteride will take me where I need to go, plus maybe some microneedling

Basically shit sucks and I hate it

wtf covid stop making me girly. a coworker said my coughs were cute, stop!

Warning: Grapefruit can interact with drugs, such as decreasing the effectiveness of estradiol, making Oxycodone last longer, increasing blood levels when on Viagra, and much more.

Grapefruit inhibits multiple enzymes in the small intestine, most notably CYP3A4. CYP3A4 is involved in the breaking down of a lot of drugs, so when it's inhibited Oxycodone becomes inactive slower, and estradiol won't break down all the way into estrogen. Drugs that are affected by grapefruit will often have warnings on their packaging

Personally, I like putting just a little bit of salt on my grapefruit, to counteract the bitter flavor. Dumping sugar on it doesn't help. Grapefruits are about half as sour as lemons, since they have half the citric acid content.

Grapefruits were accidentally created as a cross between the sweet orange and the pomelo, in Barbados. Those fruits originate from Asia, but were brought to the Caribbean in the 17th century. Since it's parent fruits are native to Asia, it grows well in Asia too.

and (China and Vietnam) are the two largest producers of Grapefruits, producing collectively 6.3 million tons out of the 9.8 million tons of worldwide production.

The painting was made by Robert Papp, who has a website here: https://robertpapp.com/. I don't really know anything about the guy.

The lemon things with all of the recipes was really cool, but to be honest I just like grapefruit raw, cut in half and ate with a spoon.

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at work i usually don't deal with customers over the phone but the last 3 times i did they all called me "ma'am"? i didn't even think i was putting in a ton of effort into it when i did that time but holy shit i sound like a girl now??? customers in person rarely if ever gender me as female but one even did today and I'm even getting way less "sirs" too! i didn't even get one at all today wow I feel so great!!!

Not going into specific detail, but we got a whole insane diatribe from them. Wasn't quite Q level stuff, but not too far removed. No hate like Christian love lol. They crossed some wild barriers trying to insert themselves between us through this process.

But... we saw this coming a long time ago, they're kinda shit and not showing their intentions. I've had it in mind to start burning bridges for a while now and they couldn't help themselves. So my subconscious kicked in for me and I fed them bait they needed to go nutty mode. Now we can lose the dead weight and it feels good to cut out the poison.

Fuck em'

I'm sorry if this isn't allowed, I just need to vent and get some things off my chest. I'm 34 years old, and I'm about to hit my 1 year mark form coming out. I've been on HRT for almost 4 months now. I just wanted to get my thoughts out and I think it might be helpful for someone.

For so much of my life I've hated existence. I hated looking in the mirror, I constantly felt depressed and angry and anxious at everything and nothing at the same time. I didn't have a social life and my dating experience was (and still is) about as real the Easter bunny. The only thing I had going for me was that I excelled in my job, but only because it was my escape from the rest of my existence.

Than a year ago I had a complete mental breakdown and realized I was trans. I'm not going to lie, it was a complete nightmare at first. On one hand, it made sense and I knew I couldn't deny it, but on the other hand processing it was so hard. I felt lost, like I didn't know who I was, what I was, and mostly I just felt alone. I had friends I tried to talk about this stuff with, but I could never convey what I was going through because it's not something that they could even understand. I'm sure a lot of people here can relate.

I think there are 2 experiences every trans person has. What it's like to look in a mirror, and what it's like trying to describe that feeling to someone else.

But things got better. After a lot of introspection about who I am as a person I've been able to accept that I'm trans. It still feels weird to say and think about, but every day it gets easier. For the first time I'm happy with myself, and I feel like I'm becoming the person I was always meant to be. I'm excited for changes and I can't wait to see who I continue to become.

But it's not all sunshine and rainbows. I'm in the USA, and that kind of says everything. I'm also proud of my job, but I'm afraid that if I came out I would be fired. I work for a company in a red state, and my job title is "Principal Network Engineer". I'm afraid that if I came out I would lose so much respect at my job. I could deal with getting fired for screwing up or doing something stupid, but because I'm trans would kill me.

It's been a long crazy year, and I'm exhausted. This past year I've been forced to face myself in a way most people never could. I've pushed myself to change who I am almost completely. I've gone from a place of stability and simplicity to a harder existence that forces me to evolve and change almost non-stop and at a break-neck speed. Despite how afraid I am, how hard things get, it's completely worth it. I know that I couldn't not be trans, but even if I could somehow wave a wand and not be trans, I don't think I would. I'm proud of what I've had to face and how far I've come, and that fight means something to me. This past year, not only did I learn that I'm trans, but that I'm strong enough to be trans, and no matter how bad things are or will get, at least for now I'm still standing.

The Lemon Edouard Manet, 1880

All recipes are vegan or easily converted

Lemon drinks:

Chef John - State Fair Style Lemonade

Adam Ragusea - Lemonade, six slightly different ways

Adam Ragusea - Homemade citrus sodas that 'glow'

Tasting History - The Sweet History of Lemonade

Middle Eats - How Egyptians stay cool in summer

Lemon drop cocktail

Lemon Deserts:

Lemon Posset

Lemon Mousse

Lemon italian ice

Lemon Cake

Lemon Meringue Pie

Lemon Curd

Lemon thumbprint cookies

Whipped Lemon Shortbread

Lemon poundcake

Korean Preserved Lemon syrup

lemon icing

Basbousa

Candied lemon peels

Lemon sponge cake

lemon entree:

Lemon Cappellini pasta

Lemon butter sauce

Lemon garlic pasta

Lemon potatoes

Greek lemon rice

Lemon rasam

Lebanese Lentil Soup

User recommended recipes:

King Arthur Flour - Lemon-Glazed Pound Cake

Townsend's 18th century Lemon Cream recipe

Lemon pig decoration

lemon resources:

How to Get 8x as Much Juice From One Citrus?

Lemon peel powder

How to store lemons

Afroman - Lemon Pound Cake (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

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https://vsemily.tumblr.com/post/689087385425903617/dont-play-defense