Thank you for looking at this. I find it so dry and difficult, listening to you explain it is really the only way available to me if I want to take this information in.
Consent. That's the issue raised for me here. I had recurrent ovarian cysts for most of my life. I had them surgically removed three times. The largest one was big enough to make me look about 6 months pregnant. I was pressured to have a hysterectomy more than once. My questions about the process and the outcome were never answered. I was told the surgeon would try to do the operation laparoscopically but that there was no guarantee he would not need to open my up "like a suitcase" in one instance.
This drove me to seek a new surgeon and prompted me to decide against hysterectomy. I resisted twice more before menopause. It was hard to turn them down.
I'm telling you this in case people here don't know or don't remember what it's like to be in pain, in the doctor's office and have them offer you extreme "solutions" whilst pressuring you to accept their expertise and lower your expectations where explanations are concerned.
I am lucky. I had a very abusive childhood so I trust no one. And the fact is, they don't offer explanations because most of the time, they don't fully understand the consequences of hysterectomy.
It is only in the last decade that real research on women's health post hysterectomy has been widely available. It turns out, hysterectomy seems to be correlated with a higher, and earlier, than typical onset of dementia and memory loss. There is also a very high incidence of sexual dysfunction and incontinence. These functions are not considered important to women who have passed their childbearing years. I guess you have to decide for yourself if they're important to you.
In my experience, sexual function and the ability to exert at least some control over my bladder and bowels adds immeasurably to my quality of life. The potential loss of these parts of my life were never mentioned during my information appointments with my prospective surgeon.
In my opinion, "consent" as we know it, is not really offered to women considering surgical interventions on our reproductive organs. It's more properly described as acquiescing to coercion. Of course, a lot of this grows out of our conditioning as young women under patriarchy. We don't want to be a nuisance, we want to be cooperative and we want to accept help where help is offered.
I wonder how often this conditioning plays a role in young women agreeing to these medical interventions that reduce fertility and create medical problems they will be forced to manage for life.
I hate to say it, but I think we have to start educating young women about what real consent means and what they are owed when they walk into a doctor's office. Were they to receive honest counsel about the consequences of these operations and interventions, I believe the rates of transitioning would plummet.
It's hard to talk to teenagers. Lord knows I'd prefer not to be in a position to have to do it. But surely these medical professionals have an ethical responsibility to outline the consequences of their actions. Who can hold them to account? Where do we start? How do we teach teenagers what real consent means? Schools have fucked that over completely.
I agree that we need to start educating young women about real medical consent. Same for young men, they are also vulnerable! I have no hope that it will ever happen through health classes at schools so it must be done by parents. Perhaps seeing parents ask question during pediatrician appointments can help. Not being embarrassed to ask about potential side effects of prescription meds. Even the most life-saving treatments can have side effects and it is important to know them.
This is an excellent video. I hope it gets to the women/girls that need to see it. Fibroids and PCOS is horrendous, it shits all over yr life. Mine wasn't discovered until I had a hysterectomy, in my late 20's.
It makes no sense that this isn't screened for prior to treatment. This also makes it clear, that it's all experimental. Their pushing it as fast and far as they can, because they want enough subjects to 'fix' (continue experimentation on) before being shut down. Thanks Ex
And I am terrified to think of potential health problems that their children will face years from now. Who knows what early exposure to testosterone in those first few weeks before the woman knows she is pregnant will cause. It's a nightmare. Women of reproductive age are usually required to go on birth control before starting chemo or other treatment with unknown effect on fetus. Why is it not a standard procedure for testosterone? (Not that I think that medical transitioning is ever appropriate )
So, as I see it, transing girls this is a kind of preventative matricide. There were a group of psychologists and psychiatrists in NYC in the 1980's who were also historians and called themselves, "psychohistorians."
Their work involved explaining the inner human impulses that drove seemingly inexplicable social waves. Like Anti-semitism, misogyny, the drive to war, racism, colonialism; you know, the stuff that seems too cruel and crazy to catch on.
I think, they would link this to climate denial. One of the things they said was that whatever humanity does to the bodies of women is something that reflects what they feel and do about the earth. We are regenerative, creative, and governed more by nature than social structure. At least that's how the psychohistorians believed the patriarchy subconsciously regarded women.
I think they were on to something.
Also, I had an ovarian cyst so big it made me look five months pregnant and it wasn't considered uncommon, so yes, they get huge.
Also, I measure how anxious something is making me by how it manifests objectively in my life. When I am anxious, I cook. I feed people. So far in the last 48 hours, listening to this material and a bit of other stuff here and there, I have made spinach pie, hot chicken dinner, vegan curried pumpkin soup, gluten-free almond nutella sandwich cookies and almond lemon cookies. I have also replaced the water in the birds' baths outside and refilled the feeder. I am considering spending some time figuring out nougat, and I have the ingredients for a walnut krinkle laid out.
Suffice it to say, my subconscious is panicking about this. My anxiety is hitting peak levels.
Sure aromatizing is not a phase transition from liquid to gas but is just the process of an enzyme called aromatase folding testosterone in such a way and changing it in such a way that it becomes estrogen
I just don't know what to say. I'm so distressed for these young women.
Thank you, Exulansic.
Thank you for looking at this. I find it so dry and difficult, listening to you explain it is really the only way available to me if I want to take this information in.
Consent. That's the issue raised for me here. I had recurrent ovarian cysts for most of my life. I had them surgically removed three times. The largest one was big enough to make me look about 6 months pregnant. I was pressured to have a hysterectomy more than once. My questions about the process and the outcome were never answered. I was told the surgeon would try to do the operation laparoscopically but that there was no guarantee he would not need to open my up "like a suitcase" in one instance.
This drove me to seek a new surgeon and prompted me to decide against hysterectomy. I resisted twice more before menopause. It was hard to turn them down.
I'm telling you this in case people here don't know or don't remember what it's like to be in pain, in the doctor's office and have them offer you extreme "solutions" whilst pressuring you to accept their expertise and lower your expectations where explanations are concerned.
I am lucky. I had a very abusive childhood so I trust no one. And the fact is, they don't offer explanations because most of the time, they don't fully understand the consequences of hysterectomy.
It is only in the last decade that real research on women's health post hysterectomy has been widely available. It turns out, hysterectomy seems to be correlated with a higher, and earlier, than typical onset of dementia and memory loss. There is also a very high incidence of sexual dysfunction and incontinence. These functions are not considered important to women who have passed their childbearing years. I guess you have to decide for yourself if they're important to you.
In my experience, sexual function and the ability to exert at least some control over my bladder and bowels adds immeasurably to my quality of life. The potential loss of these parts of my life were never mentioned during my information appointments with my prospective surgeon.
In my opinion, "consent" as we know it, is not really offered to women considering surgical interventions on our reproductive organs. It's more properly described as acquiescing to coercion. Of course, a lot of this grows out of our conditioning as young women under patriarchy. We don't want to be a nuisance, we want to be cooperative and we want to accept help where help is offered.
I wonder how often this conditioning plays a role in young women agreeing to these medical interventions that reduce fertility and create medical problems they will be forced to manage for life.
I hate to say it, but I think we have to start educating young women about what real consent means and what they are owed when they walk into a doctor's office. Were they to receive honest counsel about the consequences of these operations and interventions, I believe the rates of transitioning would plummet.
It's hard to talk to teenagers. Lord knows I'd prefer not to be in a position to have to do it. But surely these medical professionals have an ethical responsibility to outline the consequences of their actions. Who can hold them to account? Where do we start? How do we teach teenagers what real consent means? Schools have fucked that over completely.
This study summarizes possible side effects of hysterectomy nicely (I apologize if it has been posted and reviewed already). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8622061/
I agree that we need to start educating young women about real medical consent. Same for young men, they are also vulnerable! I have no hope that it will ever happen through health classes at schools so it must be done by parents. Perhaps seeing parents ask question during pediatrician appointments can help. Not being embarrassed to ask about potential side effects of prescription meds. Even the most life-saving treatments can have side effects and it is important to know them.
This is an excellent video. I hope it gets to the women/girls that need to see it. Fibroids and PCOS is horrendous, it shits all over yr life. Mine wasn't discovered until I had a hysterectomy, in my late 20's.
It makes no sense that this isn't screened for prior to treatment. This also makes it clear, that it's all experimental. Their pushing it as fast and far as they can, because they want enough subjects to 'fix' (continue experimentation on) before being shut down. Thanks Ex
I've said it before, there will be alot of trans identifying women very confused about how they ended up pregnant.
And I am terrified to think of potential health problems that their children will face years from now. Who knows what early exposure to testosterone in those first few weeks before the woman knows she is pregnant will cause. It's a nightmare. Women of reproductive age are usually required to go on birth control before starting chemo or other treatment with unknown effect on fetus. Why is it not a standard procedure for testosterone? (Not that I think that medical transitioning is ever appropriate )
So, as I see it, transing girls this is a kind of preventative matricide. There were a group of psychologists and psychiatrists in NYC in the 1980's who were also historians and called themselves, "psychohistorians."
Their work involved explaining the inner human impulses that drove seemingly inexplicable social waves. Like Anti-semitism, misogyny, the drive to war, racism, colonialism; you know, the stuff that seems too cruel and crazy to catch on.
I think, they would link this to climate denial. One of the things they said was that whatever humanity does to the bodies of women is something that reflects what they feel and do about the earth. We are regenerative, creative, and governed more by nature than social structure. At least that's how the psychohistorians believed the patriarchy subconsciously regarded women.
I think they were on to something.
Also, I had an ovarian cyst so big it made me look five months pregnant and it wasn't considered uncommon, so yes, they get huge.
Also, I measure how anxious something is making me by how it manifests objectively in my life. When I am anxious, I cook. I feed people. So far in the last 48 hours, listening to this material and a bit of other stuff here and there, I have made spinach pie, hot chicken dinner, vegan curried pumpkin soup, gluten-free almond nutella sandwich cookies and almond lemon cookies. I have also replaced the water in the birds' baths outside and refilled the feeder. I am considering spending some time figuring out nougat, and I have the ingredients for a walnut krinkle laid out.
Suffice it to say, my subconscious is panicking about this. My anxiety is hitting peak levels.
this is the second time I've listened to this. And it is so hard to accept, I keep forgetting it.
What are we going to do?
Can you explain the process of "aromatizing?" I envision a solid molecule somehow evaporating into a gas but that can't be right, right?
Sure aromatizing is not a phase transition from liquid to gas but is just the process of an enzyme called aromatase folding testosterone in such a way and changing it in such a way that it becomes estrogen
you are beautiful.