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Trans Help, DIY, PSAs, Surveys, and Resources Thread

Hey folks, hoping to have a semi-permanent thread for compiling resources to make finding really cool posts easier. Please suggest links and info in the comments below. I consider this necessary because there's a lot of things we would like pinned but obviously things get very crowded quickly. This thread will start sparse and I will edit new things in as people suggest them.

Transgender Mutual Aid

These posts are done by a transgender mutual aid group looking to help people in unusual circumstances. Please contact me if you need help with HRT info, their posts here are for donors only.

Trans Chemist Series

These posts are done by a Hexbear user that I have verified as legit, offering unique information about trans DIY hrt, including quality sources, sanitation, storage recommendations. Verified by very expensive industrial chemistry equipment.

DIY Electrolysis Series

There posts are also done by a Hexbear user that is making an open source DIY electrolysis setup.

Elara's Transonomicon

PSAs

Site Surveys

Guides

Links

Webrings and Friends

Public Chats

  • https://matrix.to/#/#tracha:chapo.chat - Our public group chat, text only. Has fun emojis bridget-vibe

  • https://www.transacademy.org/ - Trans Academy is a VRChat group that provides help/community for trans people. Among other things, they do free bi-weekly voice training seminars (in VRChat but also streamed on Discord and Twitch) and make-up tutorials (on Discord), and the classes include content for transmasc, enby, transfem peeps. VRChat is free and doesn't require VR (using the desktop or android app), but you can also participate in most of the class stuff through the Discord.

Shinhoshi @lemmygrad.ml - 2.0yr

seems to have been cleaned up a lot

I still have a grudge against the Gender Dysphoria Bible until they clean up number 15. I really want to see it fixed, but it's still problematic if this stays.

::: spoiler CW: transmedicalism

So, it is literally impossible for a person to identify as trans and not experience gender dysphoria. By the WPATH requirements anyone can identify as trans. Ergo, the statement “you do not have to have dysphoria to be transgender” is a logical paradox.

When you put "anyone can be trans" right after that, you don't help the eggs who don't think they experience dysphoria and read the medical guidelines — they'll walk away thinking that sure anyone could be a trans person, but not them because they don't have dysphoria. (Even if you're a transmed, this should concern you because eggs don't necessarily know that what they are experiencing is gender dysphoria, even with the guidelines.)

It's certainly not a logical paradox because the condition of not having dysphoria does not imply not transgender. :::

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kristina [she/her] - 2.0yr

Have any better links to replace it with? Also I think they have a github you can edit

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Shinhoshi @lemmygrad.ml - 2.0yr

I kind of hate that I don't. I almost wish the site didn't also have decent information so it would be easier to dismiss.

I'm just sharing in the hopes that it might save some trans person from being thrust back in denial by this site like I was the first time I encountered it

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rayne [she/her] - 2.0yr

I cracked my egg a little over a month ago. Took four decades.

I read the Gender Dysphoria Bible from beginning to end pretty much. When I got to 15, my takeaway was the sense of joy I feel being femme and the despair I have felt my whole life trying to be masc, is gender euphoria/dysphoria. And that I should call the clinic and set up an appointment.

So, it helped me break through a lot of denial. And I do see how the part you mentioned could be problematic, especially if someone didn't read the document as thoroughly as I did. But I am immensely grateful that I came across it when I did.

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Shinhoshi @lemmygrad.ml - 2.0yr

I did find it useful the second time around, but I wasn't ready for it the first time when I couldn't even recognize those feelings as being gender-related at all. I was so close though... I could tell it was dysphoria :wail:

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kristina [she/her] - 2.0yr

Maybe try to get in contact with them to edit the problematic bits out? They seem amenable. Report back if successful

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AcidSmiley [she/her] - 1.4yr

Another problem with this is the inherent transnegativity. That passage assumes that we are all either doomed to a lifetime of dysphoria, or that we stop being trans and finally become our actual gender once we've "completed" our transition, which is utterly transmedicalist hogwash.

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EllenKelly [comrade/them] - 2.0yr

Great work comrade thank you

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sara [they/them, she/her] - 1.6yr

several links that i have used before:

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kristina [she/her] - 1.6yr

added!

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sara [they/them, she/her] - 1.6yr

yay! edited my descriptions just now to be more specific/less informal you can copy those in if you want :)

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kristina [she/her] - 1.6yr

updated!

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Shinhoshi @lemmygrad.ml - 1.7yr

After seeing https://hexbear.net/post/3777184, I think it would be a good idea to edit the descriptions of links in here that are only relevant to transfems (e.g. https://hrtcafe.net/) so that transmascs don't waste their time looking at them.

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kristina [she/her] - 1.7yr

Do you have suggestions for transmascs on that

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Shinhoshi @lemmygrad.ml - 1.7yr

I wish I did, but it's obviously more difficult for them since testosterone is more tightly regulated

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kristina [she/her] - 1.7yr

It seems some of the sites there have it though they really need a t category

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pooh [she/her, love/loves] - 2.0yr

So I'm still pretty early in my transition but this has been pretty valuable to me so far: https://www.transacademy.org/

Trans Academy is a VRChat group that provides help/community for trans people. Among other things, they do free bi-weekly voice training seminars (in VRChat but also streamed on Discord and Twitch) and make-up tutorials (on Discord), and the classes include content for transmasc, enby, transfem peeps. VRChat is free and doesn't require VR (using the desktop or android app), but you can also participate in most of the class stuff through the Discord.

Here's a video of a voice training seminar to give you an idea of what that's like..

This is their Twitch channel which often streams their events and classes.

Also, if you decide to join the Discord or VRChat group, feel free to DM me and I'll give you my username so we can link up.

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kristina [she/her] - 2.0yr

added!

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onandrah1 [she/her] - 1.1yr

Hello Comrades,I just posted an update about our situation after the Gorom attack. We’re still in the hospital and only have 3 days to pay or face police threats.

Mutual aid link is in my profile. Boosts, shares, and care deeply appreciated 🙏🏿

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DerEwigeAtheist [she/her, comrade/them] - 1.4yr

The monero guide is permanently deleted. Which I think is a real shame. There is space for an accessible explanation on how to get crypto for hrt, since it's so annying and difficult to do, but sadly essential.

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kristina [she/her] - 1.4yr

I'll see if I can get someone to write up another

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onandrah1 [she/her] - 1.1yr

This resource thread is GOLD for anyone navigating HRT safely—especially for those of us doing it without easy access to doctors. As a trans refugee, finding support like this means the world. If you want to hear my story and how I’m surviving and thriving against the odds, check out my profile.

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pooh [she/her, love/loves] - 1.8yr

A very cool person just posted this list of links on discord:

https://hrtcafe.net/ - DIY sources

https://www.gendergp.com/

https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/gender-identity/transgender/what-do-i-need-know-about-transitioning

https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/gender-identity/transgender/what-do-i-need-know-about-trans-health-care

how do I determine my dosage / how do I take estrogen safely? http://transfemscience.org/

https://transfemscience.org/misc/injectable-e2-simulator/

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/yrznshtg3k (edited)

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kristina [she/her] - 1.8yr

Thanks! Will add them

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kristina [she/her] - 1.8yr

added!

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