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WCDT: 2387-2391 (18-22 February, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: Loki on 20 Feb 2013, 00:38 ---I have recently read that as an additional problem, sexual preferences can sometimes be reversed in trans* people when they undergo hormonal therapy. Is that even remotely true?
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Yes. About a third of the time. Usually from lesbian to straight for trans women - though more like asexual to sexual.
If the change happens 9 months after starting HRT, it's probably physiological, it takes that long for Vassopressin to clear cellular receptors in the brain. But it may be clearing of a psychological block, as it is if it happens long before or long after.
Some trans women who easily cope with all other challenges in transition have some difficulty if they're in that one in three.
Yes, I speak from personal experience. No-one else was surprised, but I was utterly convinced I'd be happily lesbian, and not straight. WRONG!!!!!!
I really don't know how (nearly) everyone else copes with puberty. You do it in your teens too. I found it difficult enough at 48.
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: Vurogj on 19 Feb 2013, 23:54 ---Gah, hate to be the nit-picker, but something was throwing me off about panel 1, and at least if I post it it might help anyone else who's thinking "something's not right there". Claire's legs are reflected incorrectly.
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Depends - have you never seen a 3D large screen capture before? It might not be an old fashioned analog mirror, but a 3D image snapped some seconds before.
A very useful consumer device, allowing the user to take a snap, then examine the back of the head for hairdo failures etc. It would have made a mint for the inventors, but they put it in the public domain.
bhtooefr:
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 20 Feb 2013, 03:08 ---Yes. About a third of the time. Usually from lesbian to straight for trans women - though more like asexual to sexual.
If the change happens 9 months after starting HRT, it's probably physiological, it takes that long for Vassopressin to clear cellular receptors in the brain. But it may be clearing of a psychological block, as it is if it happens long before or long after.
Some trans women who easily cope with all other challenges in transition have some difficulty if they're in that one in three.
Yes, I speak from personal experience. No-one else was surprised, but I was utterly convinced I'd be happily lesbian, and not straight. WRONG!!!!!!
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To clarify (I think I get what you're saying), you were (at least somewhat) interested in women before beginning HRT, and then became interested in men once everything chemically realigned?
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 20 Feb 2013, 03:08 ---I really don't know how (nearly) everyone else copes with puberty. You do it in your teens too. I found it difficult enough at 48.
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I actually suspect it'd be worse to go through puberty later in life - going through it as a teen, everyone around you is going through it too, and if you screw up it's not a HUGE deal (a lot of things that happen in high school don't actually matter, and there's usually a good safety net of some sort at that time). That said, you don't have the life experience to cope with it, but still... I definitely wouldn't want to go through it again, though.
cesariojpn:
--- Quote from: Ph2 on 19 Feb 2013, 19:12 ---Considering he knows Japanese Rope Binding, I'm pretty sure he already knows the tips.
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More in practical terms.
Lubricus:
--- Quote from: cesariojpn on 20 Feb 2013, 04:09 ---
--- Quote from: Ph2 on 19 Feb 2013, 19:12 ---Considering he knows Japanese Rope Binding, I'm pretty sure he already knows the tips.
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More in practical terms.
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Yeah, his look of concentrated boredom will really ruin the show! :-D
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