Trans Megathread for the Week of November 18th, 2024 to November 24th, 2024 (hexbear.net)

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hi so i forgot to message the person who was next (sorry HelltakerHomosexual) so i'm just gonna talk about a thing i like

Shadow the Hedgehog is a character that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. Characterized by his sharp wit and strong sense of purpose, Shadow is a recurrent arch-rival of Sonic the Hedgehog, whom he resembles and shares many abilities. He is a major supporter of trans people, as evidenced by his catchphrase, "Trans people are cool!"

^ this is all from the wiki btw

I like Shadow a lot. His first appearance in the series is in a game where him and Sonic are both fighting the government and destroying these multi-million dollar gunships. Sonic is doing it because he loves communism but Shadow is doing it because he has a blood feud against G.U.N., who are like the global government death squads because they killed this girl, Maria, who he was best friends with.

Maria basically had an incurable illness that Eggman's grandpa was trying to cure by creating an immortal lifeform, which is actually how Shadow was born. Also, Shadow has a copy of Maria's soul I guess? Seriously, look it up. I'm reading all this shit for the first time right now and that sounds kinda trans to me.

Anyway, she gets shot by the troops and despite Maria telling Shadow to be normal and happy, Eggman's grandpa is pissed off about it so he starts psyopping Shadow into wanting to kill everyone on Earth. Eggman's grandpa successfully does the psyop and locks Shadow away until Eggman finds and releases him.

With his newfound power, Shadow starts being evil and helping Eggman find the Chaos Emeralds because he sees him piss on the moon or something. This goes on for a while until he gets back on the space station and remembers what Maria said, deciding to finally be normal and happy.

He switches up, goes Hyper Shadow and helps Sonic defeat the Biolizard which is basically what it sounds like: a giant lizard who wears the space station like a little jacket and shoots lasers from his mouth. Also, that thing was the prototype Ultimate Lifeform before they decided on the optimal form of existence: a little bipedal anthro hedgehog.

So they beat this lizard up, I guess it dies and then the space station is hurtling toward the Earth. Shadow takes a Chaos Emerald and, with the help of Sonic, does one last Chaos Control on the space station, returning it to a stable altitude. Sonic finds himself back on the space station as he flies into the atmosphere. After this, a big semi-translucent Shadow appears on top of the Earth and everyone can see it.

Why would I lie about that? Here it is.

Anyway, a bunch of shit happens after that but I don't care about it. If someone else wants to talk about Shadow the Hedgehog (2005) feel free. What I really wrote this out to justify talking about is the moon in Sonic games. Like I said before, the moon gets pissed on and destroyed with the help of Shadow,

and then in the next game it's just fine but evil now(???)

and after THAT it's not evil anymore but it's fully intact:

What the fuck? Why? How? I watched it get blown up. Who put the moon back together? Anyway, we're getting in the weeds here. Welcome to the mega.

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[-] gaystyleJoker@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

hi, does anyone wanna make the mega in the upcoming weeks? if so, reply to this post and i'll add you to the list!

the list as it stands:

Hestia (11/25 - 12/1)
SwitchyWitchyandBitchy (12/2 - 12/8)
HelltakerHomosexual* (12/9 - 12/15)
GayTuckerCarlson* (12/16 - 12/22)
AshenWolf*  (12/23 - 12/29)
Eco*

EstraDoll (3/2 - 3/8)

* after name denotes someone who has posted before and will be skipped by first-time posters

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[-] Azarova@hexbear.net 5 points 30 minutes ago* (last edited 26 minutes ago)

I found a 114 year old case for t4t in a translated copy of Die Transvestiten, translated by Michael Lombardi-Nash. From a so-called 'John O.' from San Francisco, labeled Case 13, who describes herself as "...physically a man, mentally a woman",

Technically misgendering, though it is the language of the time

"If ever there is a total freedom of dress, then the effeminate people will connect with female society, just as the man-women will befriend the so-called stronger sex. When there is no longer a dress code, the woman-man will grow into the feminine and be attracted by the man-woman, because by nature both feel right for each other, he as a woman and she as a man, and they will live as happily together as any normal married couple of today.
[...]
"But if two get married, one of whom is a woman-man and one a man-woman, then he is the feminine and she is the masculine part, and they will be happy; for, no matter what the sex is, emotionally they still are, indeed, opposite sexes, just as nature made them."

Same person also makes a case for letting trans kids self identify and transition (socially, as medical transition was yet to come),

Descriptions of transphobia, and technically misgendering

"I am convinced that when a boy becomes 8 or 10 years of age and shows preference for girls' clothing, girls' work, and girls' games, then the mother, for the benefit of the child, should let him have free choice. The boy is, then, namely, only sexually a male, but mentally a female, and when such children are raise according to their feelings, then they are so much happier than when people punish them, mock them, or even abuse them to produce boyishness.
"But, if he is raised as a girl, then he will lose all doubt and wil become more stable in his girlishness, so that he then never will ever want to become a man; if he is forced to behave as a boy, then he will feel destroyed and will yearn for the time when he can make a living as a maid or something like that.
[...]
"I will agree that up to the fifth year, perhaps, many children can still be raised in their sex, but then mostly not, and if the girlish characteristics appear much stronger than the boyish ones, then it is much better for the child to be raise according to its mental sex."

Again, this was published 114 years ago, in 1910. hirschfeld

[-] egged@hexbear.net 4 points 34 minutes ago

THANK YOU I've always been thinking "why did the moon just come back? why is nobody acknowledging this?" Now I feel so seen

[-] KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 29 minutes ago

Did my first blood test for T and E so I don't have to wait anymore for that and I'm one step closer to starting HRT. But want to make an appointment for blood work for liver function first since I'm going to take bicalutamide. I could've asked to the nurse if she could test that as well but didn't think of it at the time

[-] Josephine_Spiro@hexbear.net 3 points 35 minutes ago

Depression

I think I need to get new depression meds. The ones I'm on now are better than the previous onesbhy a fair bit but its still rough mentally. Just don't want to have to deal with more random side effects that fuck me up.

[-] AshenWolf@hexbear.net 1 points 7 minutes ago

HRT ramblings, theories, and blood test results (Live Reaction)

So I stopped spiro for real this time. Last time I tried I felt noticeably worse within a few days, so I went back on it, figuring my T levels had gotten higher on the lower E dose and I needed the spiro. However, I went to try stopping it again with a significant amount of time before my blood test. After all, I knew it worked, so I wanted to see what the results would look like without it. Here's the thing: things have been improving since I decreased my spiro dose (from 50mg to 25mg) and then stopped it entirely. I had felt like my face was beginning to look more masculine, but some time (I think a single week) has it looking really soft, softer than it ever has. If it wasn't for my facial hair, I would probably look really androgynous, to be honest ( lets-fucking-go

). That takes me to my next point. My facial hair growth is slowing down, significantly, within a week of stopping the spiro. While on spiro, my facial hair would grow in what felt like normally, and I had gotten into a pattern. Shave Monday morning before work, and shave on Friday, also before work. By Wednesday, the hair had usually grown in to a point where I wanted it off, but my face is very sensitive, and it's bad enough shaving twice a week. HOWEVER: I shaved Sunday Morning. It was a bit later, not quite as early, but the hair on my face looks like I've only left it for a day. Huh? How did that happen?

Here's my thought that may have just gotten confirmed by the blood test I received: Spiro, along with E, blocks T production. However, I've also heard that when suppressed by E, the body can convert some T to E. So, having just gotten my results, my E tanked. How this happened with such a small dose decrease, I have no idea. Is the spiro really to blame for this? Probably not. My body works in very confusing ways though, and this test proves it. Last time, my E was at 498 pg/mL. Too high, even for mono-therapy, but they started me off at a pretty low dose (5mg EV injection), so it's weird. I think maybe I tested a bit early last time, and I tried doing it at the end of the week this time to get a better reading, and would you look at that, on the lower dose (4mg EV injection) my E is at 161 pg/mL, which is now too low.

This has transformed from Spiro rants into a full-on confusion crisis about my HRT. Should I have done it in the middle of the week again? Was I wrong to do the test on the day of my injection, before I did the injection? If it has been lower, what does that mean about my experience? How does that affect development, both physically and mentally? There's many more I could probably write and ask myself, but seeing the results, and going through the thought process, I asked myself if I was really trans? I am of course, I literally wrote before that I felt like I was looking more masculine, but my mind is still doing great, other than the excessive strain of a large workload I'm on a roll. I don't have my T levels yet, but maybe HRT was less of a factor in my feelings than I thought it was. I had always given it more attribution for how I was feeling mentally, when maybe I should have given myself more credit.

Either way, I'm scared to see my T results now. Then again, I feel a bit better knowing that the feeling of things slowing down has kind of been validated. That better feeling is then replaced with more anxiety because how did this happen, and how will this impact development further down the line?

[-] rtstragedy@hexbear.net 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Can we talk about The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog? How it, as far as I can tell, just fucking appeared one day as a silly little free game? How it was a several hour VN with decent art and writing? And especially how my partner and I fucking loved it to bits? Look at this guy: tails-pout

I don't even remember what happened in it but it was like unironically good. Thanks for reading.

[-] rtstragedy@hexbear.net 7 points 2 hours ago

Yes, I woke up at a stupid hour because the microchips are making me feel weird. Usually getting vaccinated is like a kinda shitty experience where i have to take a day and a half off of work and just lay in bed whining but this time I kinda spent the day with someone instead and it was really nice, and my anxiety fell asleep so I could talk more freely. So ... Thank you, vaccine brain?

spoiler

its possible I am one of the luckiest people alive

[-] Eco@hexbear.net 12 points 4 hours ago

applied for a cleaning job at my local council's office and the form asked for me to fill out my entire employment history, give a personal statement and two references lmfao

fuck off it's a fucking cleaning job who's gonna bother with this form for a 15 hour a week job

[-] Wmill@hexbear.net 7 points 4 hours ago

Thought of another Shadow fact, in sonic and the black knight shadow appears as Lancelot so take whatever myth from that and add it to shadows lore. He's known as the Ultimate Knight honestly the music from satbk is worth checking out for all the remixing of old themes from past games

[-] Wmill@hexbear.net 4 points 4 hours ago

The hero or dark bars in shadow the hedgehog (2005) are either seen as ok or useless depending on the mission you're doing but you just gotta use them right. Filled both offer unlimited ammo and invincibility that you can use to bypass a lot of harmful terrain. Chaos control should be timed over bottomless pits or rails since when it ends it will put you past both and chaos blast can absolutely wreak egg dealer and diablon under a minute if you know what you are doing.

[-] Beetle@hexbear.net 12 points 7 hours ago

Had my first gender appointment (hrt requires a LOT of gender appointments in my gatekeeper central of a country) and it made me realise: I am SO trans and SO gay. I was scared that I had to lie to be more convincing to get the juice faster but I didn’t even have to lie because, I repeat, I am SO trans and SO gay

[-] Thallo@hexbear.net 9 points 6 hours ago

I've had the same feelings. It's one thing when you think something is just available to you, but when you find it's not, the urges just get out of control.

When I had laser hair removal once, I had a bad reaction, and I thought I wouldn't be able to continue. I had a total meltdown. Really showed me how important it actually was.

[-] bolshevikLovelace@hexbear.net 9 points 7 hours ago

uhhhh this is a long rant into the void, i'm sorry in advance

recontextualising my childhood (cw depression)

i'm now realising that i was very likely depressed when i was 14-15. at the time i remember thinking that i wasn't charismatic/masculine enough for anyone to spend time with. i thought a lot about suicide but never considered it. i watched SO many videos like "How to get people to like you". but i didn't think i was depressed then because i had a group of friends, now i don't think they ever really cared about my wellbeing at all. then, go figure, i would crush so hard on any girl that showed me any lick of compassion or just feel weird that i was trying to hang out with someone of the other gender. it's infuriating how much my friends, family, the internet, all bullied the masculinity into me and that i had no idea what was wrong with me (was yet to figure out there was nothing wrong, just trans and autistic).

well i was at that low point until i started talking to someone and one day she invited me to this charity event that i cross-dressed in. her friends, that i had known but not really connected with before, helped me get ready and they made me feel so fucking pretty omg. i never forgot that, it was the best night i'd had in a really long time (even if my friends laughed at the pictures when they saw them). well, full of anxiety i asked that girl out and she said yes. we dated for 10 months or so and i think the whole time i was living vicariously through her - "while boys can't go to girls hangouts and help do girl things, boyfriends can" kinda mentality. the break up was kinda expected but losing that group of people that actually cared about me was really tough.

there was quite a bit of repression after that but i'll save that for another rant lol

anyways, thank god for hexbear-trans . i'm sad that it took me a while to figure out but i'm glad it happened when it did

[-] gaystyleJoker@hexbear.net 6 points 8 hours ago

sex stuff

IMAGINE DRAGONS VOICE:
oh, the misery!
everybody wants to see my dick for free

[-] Thallo@hexbear.net 7 points 7 hours ago

spoiler

everybody wants to see my dick for free

Don't let them. You're worth more than that 😔

[-] gaystyleJoker@hexbear.net 6 points 6 hours ago

thank you, this means so much... even if i was quoting an interview from Jason Imagine-Dragons, lead singer of Imagine Dragons

[-] rtstragedy@hexbear.net 4 points 2 hours ago

I am mapping out the family tree that led to his hyphenated name right now in my mind.

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 9 points 8 hours ago

officially two days behind on my injection, thank you anxiety

[-] 2812481591@hexbear.net 7 points 8 hours ago

Why are gasmasks a submissive kink? I would think not dying in a chlorine attack is a pretty dominant move.

[-] belligerentkitten@hexbear.net 5 points 8 hours ago

the dom: "yes you little slut take that chlorine"

[-] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 5 points 8 hours ago

curling around the oven at work comfy-cool

[-] Wmill@hexbear.net 5 points 8 hours ago

I think it's valid to get mad at friends for something they did in a dream, had an argument with one of them in my dream when they said jackie chan adventures was a bad show. I like that show so I let them know that they were wrong for having that opinion in my dream theory-gary

[-] ComradeMonotreme@hexbear.net 11 points 11 hours ago

Underrated benefit of undercut (CW horny)

Not catching long hair up in a wrap around tape gag (probably my favourite gag)

[-] yewler@hexbear.net 14 points 12 hours ago

I drank the first monster of my life today. Where do I pick up my trans license?

[-] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 9 points 9 hours ago

should be at the bottom of the can

[-] SwitchyWitchyandBitchy@hexbear.net 10 points 11 hours ago

Damn you're making me want to get into Sonic.

[-] gaystyleJoker@hexbear.net 9 points 11 hours ago

do it! it's honestly such a good icebreaker with trans women lol

[-] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 7 points 8 hours ago

The best reason to get into Sonic

bad joke (cw: sex)

if you search right you can also find other characters and objects getting into Sonic

[-] Yor@hexbear.net 15 points 14 hours ago

the 3DS was so good

[-] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 5 points 8 hours ago

I just busted out my 3DS again and got Luma and everything else updated. I found some kanji games in Japan I wanted to fuck around with. Also opened up streetpass plaza and did all the games with Miis from an anime convention I went to 7 years ago.

[-] amberSuperMario@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 10 hours ago

love the 3ds. i use it more than my switch lol

[-] Eco@hexbear.net 3 points 10 hours ago

it had good pokemon games and i will die on that hill

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[-] buh@hexbear.net 7 points 13 hours ago

Tempted to get 3 years of airvpn for like $70 USD on their black friday sale, I’ve only been using it for a few days and I like it aside from the lack of split tunneling, someone talk me out of this 😩

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 10 points 14 hours ago

What have yinz been listening to this past week? aubrey-happy

https://lastcollage.io/collage

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[-] Wmill@hexbear.net 8 points 13 hours ago

The pro strat for getting all 326 routes in shadow the hedgehog (2005) is to have no social life, why have sex or go out with a S/O when you got routes to complete very-smart also do route 326 first and work backwards that way each time you check the library it'll open up to your last run and you don't gotta flip through it.

[-] Tomboymoder@hexbear.net 10 points 14 hours ago

I don’t like how early it still is on the east coast

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