The picture is from like page 2 (or "page 4") of chapter 2 of the Esperanto translation of Sailor Moon on Mangadex.

Esperanto estro ("leader") is from the productive suffix -estro ("leader of..."), itself from Italian maestro ("master").

I'm frankly curious how much of a coincidence this really is, though. I can rule out the "es" parts in estrogen and maestro being cognate, but I don't know about the "tro": in maestro the "tro" traces to PIE *-teros (forms contrastive adjectives), whereas in estrogen the "tro" traces to...... Well, no online etymological dictionaries want to say! So it seems possible but not super likely to be from that same PIE suffix.

The word estro also shows up in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish as a regular reflex of Latin oestrus, and interestingly enough Wiktionary also tells me that estro is a word in Galician meaning "oven floor" or "animal bedding", cognate to English stratum.

I want to give surveys to a large sample size of users while filtering out bots and without compromising the privacy of the actual survey respondents. I figure a lot of the people whose voices need to be heard will have legitimate fears of being hunted down.

Traditional captcha is easy for AI to crack, but reverse captcha should hypothetically be more difficult.

My intention is to randomly generate a set of alphanumeric characters with each instance of the survey, and request the user to draw the characters as best as they can. The resulting answer to the "captcha" would be saved with the rest of the form data, alongside the randomly generated characters for that instance of the form. The idea is to exclude blank and nonsensical responses, as a quick-and-dirty bot filter.

My current plan is to create the surveys using Google Forms (with sign-in not being required and user email not being collected) and create an embed/plugin that allows the user to draw, ideally formatted for a mobile device. I would collect the drawings with the rest of the form responses, but nothing else. I do have concerns about storage.

If you have a better suggestion of how to go about this, I welcome comments. I do also have my own domain but I haven't used it for anything yet. I struggle with executive dysfunction pretty badly.

If you'd prefer to chat with me about this on Discord, just let me know and I'll DM you my Discord username.

idk as valentines day is coming around i feel especially lonely, but trying to date would open up a whole other can of worms.

To make sure someone would be attracted to me as I am now and as I (hopefully) will be, they'd basically have to be bi. But that feels like a very weird requirement to put out there... plus the idea of having to identify as a guy in a dating app is not an appealing one. this sucks.

Hopefully starting estrogen and spiro in March :)

If we have to, we'll do the surgeries on eachother ♡

They also taught people or to load and shoot an AR 15 after lol

I finally have a whole week free because my exams happened to be right after another. I've decided to start medicating myself because I've lost all hope in this country's (netherlands) medical system.

It would literally be cheaper and faster for me to hitch a ride to some European country (by train) and get hormones myself from some pharmacy instead of waiting here for prescription drugs that my insurance won't even cover (because it is not a Dutch insurance, but a European one. Didn't even know about that complication until it was too late). Not to mention the absurdly high costs for consultations and everything.

Do any of you comrades have any experience buying hormones in a European country? I know that in the netherlands, pharmacies will pretty much give you nothing without a prescription (which my GP isn't willing to give). I've heard that in Spain getting hormones over the counter is possible.

I know that ordering online us a possibility, but I am honestly quite scared of something going wrong, which is why I am looking for in person pharmacies.

Your help is much appreciated.

Deputy government spokesman Anukool Pruksanusak said the ministry is supporting the government's policy on marriage equality by emphasising not only physical health care but also mental health protection for sexually diverse individuals.

During its budget planning for 2025, the National Health Security Board has approved 145.63 million baht to provide health services, including hormone therapy, for transgender citizens. This allocation aims to provide care for about 200,000 transgender patients.

I do wonder what the process is like for getting your HRT funded, though.

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Today: a short yap about computer hardware:

Damn I love the AM4 socket its so upgradable yay, bought a Ryzen 9 5900X for our old desktop soon to be homelab and so excited for it.

Computers are fun! ~~(and expensive)~~

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I just wish I was dating him or something instead of being stuck in his body.

God really needs to get their act together and fix their buggy body generation code.

I got a referal to a gender specialist clinic. The waiting time for children to receive care is 2.5 years. The waiting time for adults isn't even listed (I somehow doubt its less than for children, since the kids need it sooner). I'm cooked.

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Note: I was writing this text throughout the past week. Yesterday Trump signed an executive order (Erin Reed breaks it down here) which forbids changing one's appearance to conform with the “opposite biological sex”. I spent all my big words in the text. TL;DR Bathroom bans are an entry point to criminalizing being trans, which now must be crystal clear that it was.

Two common comebacks with which trans advocates respond to respond to the scourge of bathroom bans are the following: On one hand, it is not feasible to confirm people’s assigned sex for an act so mundane as visiting a public restroom. On the other, enforcing the bans cause cisgender people to be questioned and harassed if they do not meet expectations of how a member of their assigned sex should look like.

Trans advocate organizations, and some Democrats, during an early 2025 hearing of an anti-trans sports ban, correctly stated that such a ban will open up opportunities to perverts to interact with children to “inspect their gender”.

The legislation has an “intrusive focus on scrutiny of students’ bodies,” according to over 400 human rights organizations, including the Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD and Advocates for Trans Equality. The groups issued an open letter to the legislature in opposition to the laws, which they said “invite scrutiny and harassment of any other student perceived by anyone as not conforming to sex stereotypes.”

According to trans man scholar Jack Halberstam[^1], masculine, androgynous, butch, women, trans men, all face policing a women restrooms as well, despite being assigned female at birth. Bathroom bans enforce gender role stereotypes: rather than biological sex, it is feminine self-presentation that it is enforced. Even expected statistical variation within cisgender women, such as height, can also make a person target to gender policing vigilantes. To bring this point home, many cis-passing trans women are not questioned in women restrooms, whereas butch cis women are. It is not chromosomes or genitals that are beholden in these cases, but perceived femininity.

But if appearance is not a conclusive estimate of a person’s assigned sex at birth, advocates continue, the only way to enforce bathroom bans is to have genital inspectors, public restroom permits and certificates, which are impractical and defeat the very concerns of dignity and safety, which are the very issues supposedly stemming from "allowing" trans women in female bathrooms.

By the same coin, enforcing restroom use according to chromosomes or genitals will mandate that trans men use female restrooms, which itself reverses the problem. The right suggests that self-determination will allow any man enter female restrooms by “faking” trans in order to commit sex crimes. But this would also be true if the bans are upheld: trans men are then forced into female bathrooms, and yet again there will be masculine-looking people walking in freely into female restrooms (you know, like male janitors do all the time).

Thus bathroom bans are correctly fenced off as absurd, self-defeating, and eventually pointless. Advocates are absolutely correct in their analysis, and I agree to all the arguments I cite above.

How are they then wrong?

Advocates fail to realize that what the right really wants is to delegitimize the public existence of people whose appearances are not consistent with their assigned sex at birth. Florida attempted to designate to present oneself as the opposite gender in public as a sex crime. It also sought to pass laws that assert that all artistic impersonations of a sex different than the performers are inherently obscene.

Bathroom ban proposals stipulate a problem about which they fearmonger, without a shred of evidence that there is a problem that needs to be addressed, in stark comparison with the problem of trans women being harassed, andremovedd in male prisons, or even cis women that are mistaken for trans sometimes. This is a real problem that we could be addressing the past decade if the right did not choose this avenue of trans vilification and demagoguery.

But we have a greater problem here[^2], which is a threat to democracy itself. The bathroom bans, which do not appear in isolation but bundled together with several other measures that prohibit being trans/in public/altogether, do not address any real problem, as they do not address the real problems of children and cisgender women, whose reproductive rights and credibility in case of real sex crimes perpetrated en masse by cisgender men, they want to stripe away.

Here is why I think bathroom bans are entry points to the corrosion of democratic values.

If people are to use exclusively the restrooms that match their assigned at birth sex, then all people must be the sex that they are perceived to be. Trans advocates were not paranoid enough to imagine that the right wants to wipe trans people out of public life to such a degree, that no ambiguity about a person's sex can further be possible, except for those "extremely rare genetic accidents" Ben Shapiro keeps talking about.

Public erasure, however, of transgender and gender-nonconforming people amounts to the enforcement of cisgenderism by a state that defines sex as a natural binary with no exceptions, and no behavioral, nor performative, nor psychological deviations from the norm. This take is inconsistent with modern understanding of sex biology and endocrinology, the psychology and phenomenology of gender expression and gender identity. It wants to perpetuate for trans identities to be medicalized and intersex people be erased. It aims to enforce strict gender roles, identities, and expressions, coded on the appearance of external genitalia at the time of birth. It wants to hinter any progress in the societal issues brought up by professionals and activists surrounding trans and intersex people.

Gender non-conforming expression is a fundamental freedom

The elimination of sex and gender variation and non-conformity is incompatible with fundamental freedoms, such as the freedom of expression, and the freedom from discrimination on the basis of sex. In fact, the same actors and organizations do not attack sex and gender minorities alone. They consistently mock and delegitimize a number of other accommodations we have established as a decent society, such as racial equity, reproductive rights, disability measures, and accessibility.

This broader attack to fundamental protections shows it is not only bathroom bans that are embedded into a broader picture of plans of trans genocide, but it is also trans genocide itself that is embedded into a broader picture of a rightwing attack to established democratic freedoms, which entail freedom of speech, reproductive rights, religious freedoms, protection from discrimination.

Advocates fail to reflect on the horrific divide in assumptions: they assume a world order in which trans people can freely move and exist in the public space without the knowledge of cis people. When proposing the bans, the right assumes a world where trans people will not be allowed to exist at all, and they now have the means to implement this world order.

Bathroom bans are a gambit to attack fundamental pillars of constitutional law and human rights protections in western societies and they seem very consistent and well thought out in their conception: No one should be allowed to appear to be a different sex that the "biological reality"[^3], and this should be enforced by the state. But for this to be enforced by the state, fundamental rights and protections should be abandoned, including the rights of children and cisgender women.

Bathroom bans are to be understood as coal mine canaries of the rise of totalitarianism in Western Societies.

[^1]: Female Masculinity (book) [^2]: In fact, Trump's fresh executive order will force trans women (and some cis ones too) into male prisons. [^3]: I literally arrived to this conclusion a couple days before Trump's executive order. I wish I had realized sooner.

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By pre-liminary, I mean that I have literally just gotten a referral to be invited to a clinic that works on gender.

And yes, that's as wierd as it sounds. I haven't even received my invitation yet! It's going to come by post not by email! I've waited 5 days already and the only thing in my mailbox are ads from dominoes. Everyday, every evening I nervously check my mailbox and get disappointed.

Also, my GP offhandedly mentioned that the wait times for any clinic will be about 1 year. At this rate, the only thing stopping me from turning to the black market is that my insurance won't cover DIY medicine.

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