There's a pretty strong theory that he was covering for his son.

I don't care if you don't believe me. You're drawing the wrong conclusions because you're expecting me to be against hormones and blockers. You're almost using that argument as a strawman.

You are wrong. All I said was children should wait until they're an adult before undergoing life altering irreversible surgery. Full stop.

But you can find a boyfriend and get him into blacksmithing so he can make you one. I feel like a ton of men won't need their arms twisted much to do it (myself included).

disclaimer: do not attempt if you have any sort of blood pressure or cardiac issues or anything that might be aggrivated by a bit of orothostatic hypotension.

First, inhale for 4 seconds, completely filling your lungs, then exhale, completely emptying your lungs. Repeat, taking one second off the inhale each time, but keeping the exhale at 4 seconds.

The effect is amplified if you bend over while doing it and stand up quickly after.

The context was the comment chain that at no point mentioned anything but surgery.

If anyone took that to mean I was against all gender affirming care, they made a baseless assumption.

Fair enough. I wasn't sure since people had the mindset that the number of users moving to Lemmy were enough to take down reddit.

No, you need to not make assumptions. The comment I was responding to was discussing circumcision, and had nothing to do with blockers or hormones. I intentionally only brought up surgery.

Anything else was your assumption.

I mean, I did just buy a jaw trainer that's basically a chew toy, so I'd be all over this if there were different strengths.

This happened to an ex of mine, as well as my wife (funny enough they have the same first name). Got a bunch of fillings that were "necessary" only to have a non-predatory dentist look at the xrays and be confused about why the first dentist did it.

It's definitely a thing, even with people who can't speak due to brain damage.

Voice resonance has more to do with your body/skull structure than anything. One thing that I find interesting is that most phenomenonal singers have rather large mouths. My singing ability actually improved as a child after getting my jaw expanded.

You can kinda test this out yourself. Hold a note with your arms by your side, then again with your hands on top of your head with elbows out. Your voice will have a lot more resonance because you're expanding your chest (this is also the best position to catch your breath in)

Source: classically trained musician taught by PhDs in the various instruments I can play (including singing)

I also have a fun breathing exercise that will make you super light headed, which is fun.

The speech and singing regions of the brain are separate from each other, which is why this works. It also can work for people who lose the ability to speak from brain damage.

It's wild how adaptable the brain is. Some dude was out there just living life when he had a head mri after a car crash (iirc) and found that he only had a brain stem.

Amen. It would be nice to have posts on actual technology instead of business/financial news about technology companies, or what shitty CEOs are doing in their personal lives.

The fediverse is not anywhere near large enough to stabilize those numbers.

I never said I supported the laws blocking access to blockers and hormones. You're the one who read more into my comment than what was there.

That doesn't answer my question.

It won't. These people are incapable of introspection.

Definitely not the state's right to let rich white men own black people. Nope, not that at all.

I always love the, "it was about state's rights," people.

Yes, you're absolutely correct. It was about the state's right to let rich white men own black people.