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I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon/
#HackerNews #Mastodon #CEO #Transition #Leadership #Change #TechNews #SocialMedia
I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon/
#HackerNews #Mastodon #CEO #Transition #Leadership #Change #TechNews #SocialMedia
PSA for my US trans friends: there's a Telehealth HRT clinic called QMed (QueerMed) that serves adults and minors in 47 states (excluding DC, unfortunately). They accept lots of private insurance (but not medicare/medicaid), and also offer a payment plan that covers appointments and lab tests for people without good insurance.
Their program is great for people going stealth or living in unsafe environments, as they don't need referrals or anything else from your primary doctor. They send all lab orders to a LabCorp location of your choice, and prescriptions are sent to any pharmacy. (including mail-order pharmacies and chains like Walgreens and CVS that will ship your meds for a small fee.) If necessary, the entire process can be private and zero-contact except for the labs.
They work with transfem, transmasc, and non-binary people, and many of their staff are themselves trans! They follow WPATH SOC-8 and target modern (cis-equivalent) hormone levels, while still being flexible enough to work with whatever your personal goals are. In my experience, their target seems to be "whatever makes you feel best within safe limits". With me, they've been willing to explore non-standard doses, injection schedules, and hybrid approaches as long as I can provide research showing it's effective or at least safe.
I can't speak to the transmasc experience, but I first started seeing them as a fem-aligned non-binary person who was already on oral Estradiol, Progesterone, and Spironolactone at mild doses. They had no issue with that, and later helped me increase those doses as I explored whether more "female" hormone balance would feel better. (still as part of a "non-binary" hormone plan!)
When I eventually realized I was binary transfem, they were just as understanding and helpful. They suggested changing Estrodiol forms to stabilize my levels at higher doses, and later helped me transition to injections when Spiro stopped working and other T blockers weren't an option for health reasons. (side note: they were actually willing to prescribe puberty blockers as an anti-androgen, but insurance wouldn't cover them and I couldn't afford the cost. I still think it's cool that they were forward-thinking enough to even offer that option, though!) I want to emphasize that I was not an easy patient for injections. I had severe needle-phobia, was clueless about the process, and proceeded to freak out many times over non-issues as I slowly learned how to inject. Through all that, they were patient, supportive, and never made me feel bad for panicking. Eventually I figured it out and even cured my needle phobia, for which they celebrated with me.
Now that I've finally achieved stable levels at the dose that feels best to me, they've let me transition to long-term HRT maintenance. This means 12-month prescriptions, infrequent tests, and minimal appointment requirements. This is something I was rather worried about, as my last provided never allowed long-term maintenance for various reasons. But with that, I'm now fully onboarded into the program and can speak to the whole experience. My overall opinion: QMed is the best HRT provider I've used, and the entire process has been smooth, flexible, and affirming.
#HRT #Transgender #Trans #PSA #Advice #Transition #Gender #GenderAffirmingCare #QMed #QueerMed
☀️ Solarcoop rejoint 🦄 @leslicoornes !
Née dans le Rhône, cette coop citoyenne démocratise l’accès au solaire tout en promouvant la sobriété. Matériaux durables, installateurs audités, prix justes, solidarité territoriale.
Les Licoornes regroupent les coops nationales engagées : Enercoop, Biocoop, La Nef, Citiz… pour une économie qui a du sens !
PSA for my US trans friends: there's a Telehealth HRT clinic called QMed (QueerMed) that serves adults and minors in 47 states (excluding DC, unfortunately). They accept lots of private insurance (but not medicare/medicaid), and also offer a payment plan that covers appointments and lab tests for people without good insurance.
Their program is great for people going stealth or living in unsafe environments, as they don't need referrals or anything else from your primary doctor. They send all lab orders to a LabCorp location of your choice, and prescriptions are sent to any pharmacy. (including mail-order pharmacies and chains like Walgreens and CVS that will ship your meds for a small fee.) If necessary, the entire process can be private and zero-contact except for the labs.
They work with transfem, transmasc, and non-binary people, and many of their staff are themselves trans! They follow WPATH SOC-8 and target modern (cis-equivalent) hormone levels, while still being flexible enough to work with whatever your personal goals are. In my experience, their target seems to be "whatever makes you feel best within safe limits". With me, they've been willing to explore non-standard doses, injection schedules, and hybrid approaches as long as I can provide research showing it's effective or at least safe.
I can't speak to the transmasc experience, but I first started seeing them as a fem-aligned non-binary person who was already on oral Estradiol, Progesterone, and Spironolactone at mild doses. They had no issue with that, and later helped me increase those doses as I explored whether more "female" hormone balance would feel better. (still as part of a "non-binary" hormone plan!)
When I eventually realized I was binary transfem, they were just as understanding and helpful. They suggested changing Estrodiol forms to stabilize my levels at higher doses, and later helped me transition to injections when Spiro stopped working and other T blockers weren't an option for health reasons. (side note: they were actually willing to prescribe puberty blockers as an anti-androgen, but insurance wouldn't cover them and I couldn't afford the cost. I still think it's cool that they were forward-thinking enough to even offer that option, though!) I want to emphasize that I was not an easy patient for injections. I had severe needle-phobia, was clueless about the process, and proceeded to freak out many times over non-issues as I slowly learned how to inject. Through all that, they were patient, supportive, and never made me feel bad for panicking. Eventually I figured it out and even cured my needle phobia, for which they celebrated with me.
Now that I've finally achieved stable levels at the dose that feels best to me, they've let me transition to long-term HRT maintenance. This means 12-month prescriptions, infrequent tests, and minimal appointment requirements. This is something I was rather worried about, as my last provided never allowed long-term maintenance for various reasons. But with that, I'm now fully onboarded into the program and can speak to the whole experience. My overall opinion: QMed is the best HRT provider I've used, and the entire process has been smooth, flexible, and affirming.
#HRT #Transgender #Trans #PSA #Advice #Transition #Gender #GenderAffirmingCare #QMed #QueerMed
I love Grand Central
#ThingsYouCantUnsay #trans #transition
I love Grand Central - the people watching, the mixture of humanity from across the globe. Women, their bodies in motion as they stride, stroll, pose, eat, sip, run, wave, sit, hug, kiss, exist. My body *loves* motion.
I’ve been in transition for about two and a half years, and every day I make choices about how to inhabit my body in ways that affirm me and that change my body to be more how she wants to be.
On the first day of my transition, I would have swapped any cis girl for her body. I had no idea what my body was capable of.
Today, I feel gender envy for some girls, but I have such a deep connection with my body and trust in who I am, I wouldn’t swap my body for anyone else’s.
I love who I am, who I’m becoming, and, with some pain, who I’ve been. Some days it’s harder than others, but it’s totally worth it.
I love me.
I love Grand Central
#ThingsYouCantUnsay #trans #transition
I love Grand Central - the people watching, the mixture of humanity from across the globe. Women, their bodies in motion as they stride, stroll, pose, eat, sip, run, wave, sit, hug, kiss, exist. My body *loves* motion.
I’ve been in transition for about two and a half years, and every day I make choices about how to inhabit my body in ways that affirm me and that change my body to be more how she wants to be.
On the first day of my transition, I would have swapped any cis girl for her body. I had no idea what my body was capable of.
Today, I feel gender envy for some girls, but I have such a deep connection with my body and trust in who I am, I wouldn’t swap my body for anyone else’s.
I love who I am, who I’m becoming, and, with some pain, who I’ve been. Some days it’s harder than others, but it’s totally worth it.
I love me.
From VS Code to Helix
Retrouvons-nous dans notre local habituel pour partager une après-midi dédiée au jeu, papote, sieste, tea time, échanges de bons plans... 🍁
Pour s'inscrire au moment chill du 19 octobre ou pour tout autre renseignement : MP sur ce compte ou email à meufstranstoulouse@gmail.com
Faites tourner 🌬️💕
#transgenre #transgender #trans #transgirl #mtf #toulouse #toulousecity #cercledeparole #grouptherapy #transition #transidentité #transidentity #soutien
Retrouvons-nous dans notre local habituel pour partager une après-midi dédiée au jeu, papote, sieste, tea time, échanges de bons plans... 🍁
Pour s'inscrire au moment chill du 19 octobre ou pour tout autre renseignement : MP sur ce compte ou email à meufstranstoulouse@gmail.com
Faites tourner 🌬️💕
#transgenre #transgender #trans #transgirl #mtf #toulouse #toulousecity #cercledeparole #grouptherapy #transition #transidentité #transidentity #soutien
Please boost for reach!
I just saw a few things:
∘ Psytrans, my Dutch Genderclinic is now contracted with four health-insrance providers: Menzis (mine), OWM Zorgverzekeraa Zorg en Zekerheid, CZ / Ohra / Nationale Nederlanden, and ONVZ. That means you no longer need a (non-existing) restitutie-policy anymore to get full coverage from your health-insurance!
∘ Today was one of the days where they announced whether they have space and they did not have any. This sounds bad, but it means that there is a pretty good chance that they will have space next month! (Previous period was also three months between opening the list.)
⇒ If you have Genderdysphoria in the Netherlands and need an official diagnosis for access to care, you have a real chance to get a pretty reasonable offer, if you sign up on their website, on the 6th of october at 09:00:00 (sharp!!!), since it’s first-come-first-serve to get on their rather short 3 month waiting list!
(Seriously though: when I say “sharp”, I mean it. This is competitive and pretty much the only official place in NL with this kind of deal, do not be a minute late or there is a very real chance that it will be too late!)
#Psytrans #transition #medicalTransition #transgender #transNL #dutchhellcare #dutchhealthcare
Please boost for reach!
I just saw a few things:
∘ Psytrans, my Dutch Genderclinic is now contracted with four health-insrance providers: Menzis (mine), OWM Zorgverzekeraa Zorg en Zekerheid, CZ / Ohra / Nationale Nederlanden, and ONVZ. That means you no longer need a (non-existing) restitutie-policy anymore to get full coverage from your health-insurance!
∘ Today was one of the days where they announced whether they have space and they did not have any. This sounds bad, but it means that there is a pretty good chance that they will have space next month! (Previous period was also three months between opening the list.)
⇒ If you have Genderdysphoria in the Netherlands and need an official diagnosis for access to care, you have a real chance to get a pretty reasonable offer, if you sign up on their website, on the 6th of october at 09:00:00 (sharp!!!), since it’s first-come-first-serve to get on their rather short 3 month waiting list!
(Seriously though: when I say “sharp”, I mean it. This is competitive and pretty much the only official place in NL with this kind of deal, do not be a minute late or there is a very real chance that it will be too late!)
#Psytrans #transition #medicalTransition #transgender #transNL #dutchhellcare #dutchhealthcare
Hi #trans lovelies! Let’s share #transition joy. What was one of the first #GenderEuphoria moments you had?
I remember when I put on big, dangly, over-the-ear earrings - they framed my face in a way that really changed how I experienced my reflection in the mirror.
Hi #trans lovelies! Let’s share #transition joy. What was one of the first #GenderEuphoria moments you had?
I remember when I put on big, dangly, over-the-ear earrings - they framed my face in a way that really changed how I experienced my reflection in the mirror.
Definitely the right size, the 34DD moves around FAR less than my 36D's were, and the girls definitely fit the cups better. This is wild to me. I'm still kinda trying to wrap my head around it. For a couple of reasons:
1. The big piece of advice I saw a lot pre- #transition was to “expect one size less than your closest cis relatives." My mom was a 36C. My bio-sister, I don't know for sure but I'd estimate her at a 32 or 34C. I have aunts, grandparents, etc. as well, in that range. My wife, though not related, is a 34B. I am larger than all of them?
2. I didn't expect this to go this well. I never expected a band size less than 38 just given my body size at the time. Truthfully I never really had a specific size in mind, just “proportional.”
And, if the aching recently is any indication, they're still growing. 😳
I still don't "feel" like they're proportional especially without a bra on. But this is definitely making me consider BA a bit less.
#trans #transition #transfem #hrt
https://tech.lgbt/@ria/115098598131463247
Okay, so I did a dumb. And it's going to need some #TransMutualAid
I assumed my job (Goodwill) would be paying me throughout my recovery period. But they didn't except for the week of the surgery itself. All because I'm part-time and not full-time.
Which means I foolishly blew through the money (not nearly enough) DoorDashing food cravings and (thanks to withdrawing a $100 check to pay some tax stuff to the IRS) I am broke until the next paycheck comes Friday.
I also have the possibility of Medicaid not covering the #orchi surgery I had. And wanting to also slowly save up for vaginioplasty.
Deleting all food apps off phone and setting up some short-term mutual aid sources when I get home before doing a long-term #GoFundMe .
https://www.venmo.com/u/adrienne-harper-115
#update #trans #mutualaid #transbian #girlslikeus #transgender #transition #transgirl #transwoman #transfeminine #transfem #transfemme
Okay, so I did a dumb. And it's going to need some #TransMutualAid
I assumed my job (Goodwill) would be paying me throughout my recovery period. But they didn't except for the week of the surgery itself. All because I'm part-time and not full-time.
Which means I foolishly blew through the money (not nearly enough) DoorDashing food cravings and (thanks to withdrawing a $100 check to pay some tax stuff to the IRS) I am broke until the next paycheck comes Friday.
I also have the possibility of Medicaid not covering the #orchi surgery I had. And wanting to also slowly save up for vaginioplasty.
Deleting all food apps off phone and setting up some short-term mutual aid sources when I get home before doing a long-term #GoFundMe .
https://www.venmo.com/u/adrienne-harper-115
#update #trans #mutualaid #transbian #girlslikeus #transgender #transition #transgirl #transwoman #transfeminine #transfem #transfemme
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