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#introduction after move from the @haslo nick:

I make #live #techno #music 🎹 - but "only" on YT so far. Might change soon, I'll keep you posted 🤭💕

cybergwen.com, my stuff.

I'm a #geek 🤖 who has been #coding 🐒 since the 80s, currently Digital Director and #teamlead.

I'm also teaching #kids to code at our monthly code dojo ⛩️.

I'm a #swiss 🇨🇭 #trans girl 🏳️‍⚧️ who only just realized she's trans last year. Transitioning now (#HRT and all), finally being myself now.

Hi 🙋‍♀️💖

cybergwen.comCyberGwen.com | haslo.ch - Techno and Plugins from Bern, SwitzerlandTechno, industrial, ambient, psytrance, acid, and experimental electronic music by Gwen Gloor aka CyberGwen. Homegrown Swiss techno from Bern.

Future of Trans Youth Healthcare at Risk: Government Actions Scrutinized

Less than a year after the U.K. banned puberty blockers for trans youth, health secretary Wes Streeting, the Health Minister for this very un-Labour-like Labour government, is considering banning the prescription of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) by private clinics and healthcare providers to patients under 18. According to the BBC, government lawyers have stated that an expert panel will issue a report on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in July. Currently, the NHS allows HRT to be […]

kiraherdman.co.uk/2025/05/30/f

#gender#hrt#labour

Lesbians on Ecstasy + Rough Spells + HRT

La Sotterenea, Saturday, June 21 at 08:00 PM EDT

Lesbians on Ecstasy (foundational queer electroclash legends) https://lesbiansonecstasy.bandcamp.com/music

Rough Spells https://roughspells.bandcamp.com

HRT https://hrtmtl.bandcamp.com

https://tickets.venuepilot.com/e/123052

La Sotterenea
Portes: 20h
Spectacle: 20h30
20/ 25$

Rejoignez-nous pour une soirée de sons puissants et de solidarité vitale. HRT est une expérience EBM trans rage synthétisée. Découvrez le doom witch 'n roll de Rough Spells, une force queer féminine de Tkaronto. Ensuite, dansez sur les mash-ups électropunk de Lesbians on Ecstasy, qui réécrivent l'histoire lesbienne, enflammant les pistes de danse du monde entier. Cette nuit mélange musique brute et appel à un changement significatif, reconnaissant notre responsabilité partagée.

Join us for an evening of powerful sounds and vital solidarity. HRT is EBM trans rage synthesized experience. Experience Rough Spells' witch 'n roll doom, a queer female force from Tkaronto. Then, dance to Lesbians on Ecstasy, whose electropunk mash-ups rewrite lesbian history, igniting dance floors globally.This night blends raw music with a call for meaningful change, acknowledging our shared responsibility.
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ACCESSIBILITÉ // Sotterenea est situé au sous-sol de La Sala Rossa, avec deux volées d'escaliers (34 marches au total) comme accès principal. Si vous avez besoin d'aide pour accéder à notre espace, nous disposons d'un autre accès (11 marches au total). Il n'y a pas de toilettes neutres et elles ne sont pas totalement accessibles aux fauteuils roulants. N'hésitez pas à nous contacter, car nous sommes ravis d'essayer d'accommoder les gens au mieux de nos capacités.
ACCESSIBILITY // Sotterrenea is located in the basement of La Sala Rossa, having two flights of stairs (34 steps in total) as the main access. Anyone needing assistance to our space, we have another access (11 steps in total). There are no gender neutral washrooms which are not totally wheelchair accessible. Please contact us as we are more than happy to try and accommodate people to the best of our ability.
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Suoni Per Il Popolo reconnaît que le territoire sur lequel nous sommes rassemblé.e.s est le territoire traditionnel et non-cédé du peuple Kanien'keha:ka (Mohawk), un lieu qui a longtemps constitué un site de rencontre et d'échange entre plusieurs nations.

Suoni Per Il Popolo would like to acknowledge that the land on which we gather is the traditional and unceded territory of the kanien'keha:ka (Mohawk), a place which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst nations.

montreal.askapunk.net/event/le

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i decided to be a spreadsheet nerd about folks' replies and try to visualize them a bit. obviously take the results with a grain of salt given a sample size of only 28 here, but it's still fun to look at imho

i wish we had more data on this out there! i'd love to see something like this at a much larger scale

anyway, guess that's my libreoffice calc rabbit hole for the week! lol

hope this is helpful to someone :sparkles_trans:

If you are a cisgender ally, here's a reminder that #gender-affirming
#healthcare is easily accessible to most cisgender adults in the #US.

This is the /exact/ same healthcare that is restricted or denied to #transgender adults.

The image and transcription were shared on a local-to-me Discord.

Because it's long, the transcription is here instead of in the alt-text. The #AltText says that, too (because I don't share images without it).

<transcription>
Totally legal and easy ways cisgender people can access testosterone & estrogen replacement therapy prescriptions

For no real reason at all, it's good to remind everyone that cisgender people in the USA can very easily recieve and fill prescriptions for hormones that trans people may struggle to access even more in the coming months and years. This zine is a simple and easy guide to remembering that random fact!
The text of this zine is an edited version of a post by psychologist
Dr. Sebastian Mitchell Barr
(@drsebastianbarr). This zine can always be copied: remember, hormones and print media save lives!

Cisgender men can be prescribed Testosterone due to symptoms of low testosterone.
To recieve a low T diagnosis and Testosterone Rx, cis men need to:
• Report their symptoms of low T to a doctor using a virtual app
• Use the at-home kit to provide a sample of blood for testosterone testing

For anyone completing an at-home sample kit, note that Testosterone levels change throughout the day and are highest in the mid-morning and lowest in the late afternoon and evening.

As of early 2025, here are some apps & virtual clinics that provide physician prescribed testosterone replacement therapy for cis men:
- Blokes
- Henry
- Hone

Cisgender women may be prescribed testosterone, estrogen, and/or progesterone for symptoms of menopause and perimenopause. For cisgender women, accessing these hormones through virtual clinics often does not require labs.

As of early 2025, here are some apps and virtual clinics that provide physician-prescribed hormone replacement therapy for cis people in perimenopause and menopause:
- Joi
- Evernow
- Defy
- Winona
- Alpha

Death before Detransition: We Choose Life.
Copy, distribute, and protect trans life.
</transcription>

🇩🇪 Heute war ich das erste Mal Blut spenden!🩸Das heißt auch, dass ich heute endlich die Fragen, die ich zum trans bzw. nichtbinär-Sein, zu ADHS-Medikamenten und zur Hormontherapie in Zusammenhang mit Blutspenden hatte, beantworten konnte:

  1. Geschlecht und HRT

Frauen können hier vier-, Männer sechsmal im Jahr Blut spenden.
Weil ich amtlich 'divers' und seit Jahren auf einer Hormonersatztherapie bin, wussten die Leute bei der Blutspende erstmal nichts mit mir anzufangen.

Die haben sich aber jedenfalls an meiner statt über die veralteten Systeme und Protokolle aufgeregt – die ganzen Computer waren noch auf Windows XP oder noch älter, und die Software hatte halt nur 'männlich' und 'weiblich' als Optionen.

Am Ende haben sie sich darauf geeinigt, dass ich wegen meiner Langzeit-Hormontherapie tendenziell eher 'biologisch weiblich' als 'biologisch männlich' sei, und dass sie mich einfach als weiblich führen würden.

[Das fand' ich ein bisschen lustig. Ich kann mir nur vorstellen, wie transphobe Leute darauf reagieren würden, dass ich von medizinischem Fachpersonal als biologisch/körperlich weiblich eingestuft wurde.]

Die Hormontherapie war übrigens auch absolut kein Problem. Ich hatte ursprünglich sogar die 'Transsexualität' als Vorerkrankung eingetragen, weil es ja eine Diagnose war, aber da hat mir der Arzt gesagt, das solle ich nicht machen, weil trans zu sein keine Krankheit sondern einfach ein Zustand sei. Fand ich süß.

  1. ADHS-Medikamente

Das Lisdexamfetamin (Elvanse) war ebenfalls absolut kein Problem. Die haben sich viel eher für blutverändernde Medikamente wie z. B. Blutverdünner und für sowas wie illegale Drogen interessiert.

Die wollen Risiken minimieren; Leute die illegale Drogen nehmen haben im Vergleich zu Rezeptpatient:innen halt tendenziell ein größeres Risiko, unsaubere Spritzen zu verwenden, oder auch einfach unbekannte oder gefährliche Substanzen genommen zu haben, wenn z. B. deren Drogen gestreckt wurden.

Dasselbe mit Sexualität: seit 2023 fragen die nicht mehr nach der Orientierung. Ich 'durfte' bis zu zwei Sexualpartner:innen in den letzten vier Monaten gehabt haben (oder bis zu einer/einem im Bereich Analverkehr), und das war es eigentlich. Es wurden keine Fragen zur Orientierung gestellt.

Hoffe, das hilft jemandem!

🇬🇧 Today I went to donate blood for the first time! 🩸That also means I received an answer to most of my questions about donating blood while genderqueer, on HRT and ADHD medication in Germany.

  1. Gender, Sex, HRT

Women can donate four, men can donate six times a year over here. Since I officially carry the 'third gender' of my country and I've been on HRT for several years, they didn't initially know what to do with me.

They expressed sympathies with me on how aged and outdated their systems and protocols were – most of them were still on Windows XP or older and the software only featured 'male' and 'female' options.

They came to the conclusion that due to my long-term hormone replacement therapy, I was nowadays closer to 'biologically female' than 'biologically male', and that they'd keep me in their systems as female.

[This was somewhat funny to me. I can only imagine what a transphobe would think about the idea of medical personnel determining me as biologically female.]

Hormones were also no issue whatsoever, and the doctor told me that my 'transsexuality' that I initially put into 'pre-existing conditions' is not a medical condition but just a facet of life and therefore should not be listed there.

  1. ADHD medication

Taking Lisdexamfetamine (Elvanse/Vyvanse) was not an issue whatsoever. They're mostly looking out for blood-altering medication such as blood thinners, and illegal drugs.

They're trying to minimise risks, and people who take illegal drugs are way more likely to use unsanitary syringes or even unknowingly consume unknown or dangerous substances that may linger in the blood due to consuming laced drugs.

Same thing with sex: since 2023, they don't ask for sexuality anymore. Instead, I was allowed to have 'up to and including 2' sexual partners within the past four months, or 'up to 1' sexual partner with who I practised anal. No questions about sexual orientation appeared.

Hope this helps someone!