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  • For me, it would be a massive euphoria moment, tbh. That alone would increase my mental health by tenfold.

    The hormonal changes in pregnancy are often triggered by the embryo producing hormones to keep the pregnancy ‘active’.

    For managing it safely, I would argue against it being too difficult. A multidisciplinary team is indeed necessary, for this first, but beyond that, pregnancy is comparatively decently understood.

    A close analogy for transgender women would be transgender men who discontinue the exogenous testosterone, to induce ovarian hyperstimulation. Uncomplicated pregnancies have occurred in there. Likewise, intersex people with both testicular tissue and female genitalia, as well manage to undergo pregnancy. Cisgender women with severe ovarian insufficency or prenatal oophoroectomy also have successfully fulfilled pregnancies, with a mix of exogenous hormone support followed by an increase in endogenous placental hormone production.

    The biggest issue is actually neovaginal anastomosis, it needs to be well-vasculated. Thankfully, we have made enormous advances in this regard, in that we managed to let blood vessels grow. For the microbiome, self-lubricating neovaginas exist, as well as vaginal creams. These can help.

    The pelvis is actually less of an issue - depending on how early one took HRT, it’d be possible to give birth naturally (if necessary earlier) or to perform a C-section.










  • If you want to incentivise shareholders to go green, it’d imo actually help more to have tax deductions for investing in those, while you raise dividend tax on non-SRI (socially responsible investing). The extra dividend tax can go towards three:

    a) making sure algorithms and media foster general wellbeing, so, corporate can’t lobby as effectively, thus hindering the far right

    b) financing public projects and works, independently managed sovereign wealth funds with a strong ESG, SRI focus

    c) fostering cooperatives and building financial reserves for crisis years

    d) closing tax evasion loopholes, possibilities for capital flight, and properly taxing multimillionnaires and autocratic (i.e. non-cooperative) companies.

    In this way, you also prevent shareholders from having an incentive to invest in fossil fuel desinformation and authoritarian movements.