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   CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 07:32:57 JST CJ Bellwether

   There is quite the list of "more common" diagnoses found in the trans populace than genpop:

   Chronic Bowel Diseases:
   Crohns Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, IBS.

   Connective Tissue Disorders:
   Rheumatoid Arthritis, Ehlers-Danlos, Marfan, Lupus etc

   (the above means Raynauds as an issue with blood circulation is also common)

   Hormone disorders:
   PCS and AIS

   Autism, ADHD/ADD.

   Some you may be aware of prior to transition, some you may become aware of after in the "oh so thats why my body has always done that". Transition can heighten certain conditions, reduce symptoms or bring them into a new light through different changes to the body or the sudden onset of being in your body and no longer ethereally detached from it as a coping mechanism.

   The list above is worthwhile looking through and briefly reading up on, partly because you're going to meet a lot of people in community who have these issues, but also because it may be you who does.

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     CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 07:09:28 JST CJ Bellwether

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     • Frances Larina

     @Frances_Larina yeah we already have scientific consensus that there is an innate biological difference.

     Idk, i think theres a hold over from a huge distrust of the idea of anything being argued as biological being the sole ground of transmedicalists.

     But really in the end the scientific advancements have actually made their postion defunct. They lost that fight a long while back when it stopped being considered a mental illness.

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     Frances Larina (frances_larina@sfba.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 07:09:29 JST Frances Larina

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     @siege

     Hrt for me was amazing specifically because it enabled my body to regulate serotonin for the first time since puberty. My first endo, now long retired, simply shrugged and said it seemed commonplace among trans people.

     So many people in our community are afraid to admit that there may well be biological differences between cis and trans people; I don't understand why.