You’re not likely to have the energy to do anything beyond lounging around for at least a week or two, I’d plan on taking at least a month off work.

Blåhaj

https://transfemscience.org/articles/e2-equivalent-doses/ in particular here.

Pretty much.

It’s either my alarm clock or 5.1 speakers, both of which would be somewhere over 20 years old.

Follow international medical guidelines (i.e. WPATHv8) as a baseline, actually listen to trans people, and be willing to deviate based on patient need.

Have the trans community involved in governance in a non-tokenestic way, e.g. seats on the board.

Took me maybe a year to fully stop doing.

It varies in practice. Most people I see using identify, including many trans people, are well-intentioned and think it’s the preferred polite language without thinking too hard on the implications of it.

However there are definitely anti-trans people who will use it pejoratively, which I presume is where that wording originated.

He longs for the ocean.

Testosterone can convert to estradiol via aromatase, however there’s no metabolic pathway in the other direction.