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Study Finds Trans Women's Blood Proteins Resemble Cis Women's After 6 Months on HR “Feminizing GAHT [gender-affirming hormone treatment] skews the plasma proteome toward a cis-female profile,” the study concluded.

1. A groundbreaking new study published in Nature Medicine shows that feminizing hormone therapy shifts trans women's blood protein to resemble cis women after only 6 months.

HRT really is effective and changes the human body heaivly.

The latest from S. Baum.

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This is what No Kings Day felt like 🐸🐔🦄🐿️✨
“Tʜɪs ɪs ᴡʜᴀᴛ Dᴇᴍᴏᴄʀᴀᴄʏ ʟᴏᴏᴋs ʟɪᴋᴇ!“ 🗣️✨

This country belongs to the people.

#StandTALL 🚀🗣️

(Prints at www.Nikkolas.Art)

A little before and after. Tweeters repaired (on both speakers). I’m sure refoaming large woofers is way easier. I think I could do it better if I had to do it again. Also picked up some Pioneer CS-G204s. I think I have enough speakers.

Circa 1990s Yamaha hifi system featuring a receiver, dual cassette deck, and 5-disc cd player

Vintage 1950s Zenith radio, record and tv cabinet with a 1990s Yamaha HiFi system and two vintage Pioneer speakers from the 1970s

The (mid-grade) HiFi system of teenage Ava’s dreams. In a vintage radio, turntable and tv cabinet to boot!

Supreme Court to decide if states may ban attempts to ‘convert’ gay and transgender youth | CNN Politics Matt Salmon remembers getting into a circle with the other teenagers in his group therapy session and shouting obscenities at a gay boy forced to stand in the middle.

The Supreme Court is poised to overturn 32 state bans on conversion therapy and explicitly legalize the abusive and torturous process.

They don't care how many LGBTQ people this traumatizes and kills.

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A photo of vintage 1970s Pioneer CS-88a speakers with a Sony receiver on top.

Ava’s audio journey continues. Picked up a pair of Pioneer CS-88a speakers at an estate sale for $40. Foam repair kits for the tweeters are on the way. Other than that, they sound pretty good for 53 year old speakers.

I buy music to support my favorite artists and to enjoy. Yes. That is a Breach first pressing by Twenty One Pilots.

Photo of a Klipsch speaker, a vintage Yamaha dual cassette deck and a vintage Yamaha 5-cd cd player.

Replaced the Aiwa XC-35M with a Yamaha CDC-555. Love the simplicity of design, great sound, and matches the year and aesthetic of the KX-W392.

Photo of vintage Aiwa 5-disc cd player and Yamaha dual cassette deck.

I’m on a quest to own my music again. Can I borrow some CDs or cassettes?

Mix tape complete. On a Sony hi-fi cassette. To go back to making something in real time was magical.

I’m making an honest to goodness mix tape. On cassette. What song do I start with?

Did it cost more that it would have new? Sure. But it’s had the belt replaced and it’s been serviced so I can enjoy it without worry.

Oh you know, just getting ready for bed, brushing my teeth, vacuuming the dust of the ceiling fan. The usual routine.

I didn’t do anything if capitalistic value today and it shouldn’t feel so strange.

The Senate’s ‘Big, Bad Budget’ would impose a sweeping nationwide abortion ban by blocking Affordable Care Act insurers from covering abortion care in all 50 states.

Adding it to my list. Thanks! Probably be a good followup to Poverty, By America.

A lovely little friend I made at lunch. 🐝

🚨 In addition to banning gender affirming medical treatment through Medicaid, Trump's reconciliation bill PROHIBITS health insurance purchased through Obamacare exchanges from offering transition care.

Detransition care, though, is specifically protected. CALL YOUR HOUSE REPS!

The new version of the House reconciliation bill expands the medicaid and chip ban on coverage for gender affirming care to ALL AGES. This will decimated access to care for tens of thousands of trans people.

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What if, instead of running, T-Rex hopped around like a bird? 🦖

Currently, even SCROTUM is too kind.

Way to go Canada! 🍁🇨🇦🍁

I feel this! It’s how 2025 felt until a few weeks ago. Thankfully I was able to test and have my PCP adjust. Feeling much better now. But it was dark for the start to the year.

Been there. My fallback is scrambled eggs. I can almost always get them to eat that.

I’m not old. But I’m now old enough to understand dedicated walking shoes.

I don’t like having to fully log n every time even though I saved the info. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Thanks!

I haven’t. What platform is it on?

I’m sorry, but this woman is absolutely poisonous and cruel and I cannot *stand* her or her attacks on trans people. You should feel about her IP like you do about Tesla. This is appalling.

The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.