Leo Gura

You can't really outlaw it. People will just find black markets for it. Dudes like Rogan take hormones even if they are illegal. The funny thing is half these fucking right-wingers are taking hormones because they don't feel macho enough, which are destroying their bodies. Yet they bitch about trans people and call it dangerous. How about the real danger is young boys copying Rogan with hormone use? That's 1000x more people than trans in the whole country. Why is Rogan grooming young men into dangerous drug use? It's acceptable for men to use hormones simply because it reinforces traditional gender stereotypes. Which is really what this war is about. If some dude gets surgery to make his dick bigger, no right-winger is gonna complain about it.

I call BS on that, or his matches are monsters from the black lagoon.

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Tell granny that drugs help you find God

Same could be said about plastic surgery. How did people cope with big noses back in the caveman days? When you have no option to change yourself, it's actually a lot easier to accept yourself because you don't even think about it. Giving people too much freedom leads to unhappiness. People think freedom makes them happy, but the opposite is often true. If you had no option but to be a slave picking cotton, you would eventually accept it and find happiness in it, when you're not being whipped or hurt. But as long as you got the idea that you shouldn't be a slave, you will forever be unhappy. The human mind's capacity for acceptance is crazy. But it has to have no other options. As soon as you give it ideas of options, then the real suffering beings.

No, it would look like you got a dick but you feel like you should have a pussy. Imagine if you were born with a ball sack hanging from your chin. You would hate yourself and want it removed because it doesn't feel right. That's where you're wrong. Because your hormones would be those of a man, making it impossible to rock being a girl.

That's not the issue. The issue is that people are born with female brains in male bodies and vice versa. It's really not a cultural issue, it's an issue of biological mismatch. Imagine if you were a guy accidentally born with tits. You'd want them removed to feel like a "proper" guy. No amount of cultural acceptance would fix the issue. It's ironic that LGBTQ people like to say that gender is just something you invent. But in practice the way they act is as though gender is pure biology, they just are on the wrong side of that biology and want to be on the right side of it. But you can't just will your way to the right side of biology. Hence the hormones and surgery. If gender was truly just invented from thin air, then hormones and surgery would be totally irrelevant. The reality is that your mind leans either masculine or feminine, and you cannot just flip that at will. Nor can you flip your body at will. Which is why trans people struggle so much. If gender could be flipped at will then no one would struggle with it, you'd just invent whatever gender you want and feel great about it. But that's not how it works because you can't just fantasize whatever you want and have it reflected in life. You can call yourself a unicorn but that doesn't mean your own mind will buy it. Deep down you'll know you're bullshitting yourself. So you will want surgery to make you look more like a unicorn so you feel more like a unicorn and then you will buy it. You can also try to change culture to help you fool yourself that you're a unicorn. If you can pressure everyone around you to call you a unicorn, that will help you to buy your own fantasy and make it feel more real. But still, deep down you'll know you're bullshitting yourself and you'll feel depressed and anxious about it. Basically, you can ask yourself, "What actually is my body if I stop bullshitting myself?" and "What do I wish it was if I could wave a magic wand?" And if you got two different answers, you'll be unhappy until you find some way to close that gap. In a sense a trans person is like a person with a big ugly nose who hates himself and wants a normal nose. And no amount of other people telling him that his nose is okay will solve his problem. Nor will renaming himself "small-nose" fix his problem. He needs his actual nose to match the self-image of his nose he has in his mind. So that's what he goes for, but in practice it's not so easy to make a big ugly nose into a normal nose. So even after the surgery he will still feel bad because his nose will never truly match a normal nose. And others around him will never truly treat him as though he has a normal nose, because he doesn't.

Only you can tell. Effective meditation requires focusing for hours at a time. A few minutes of silence will do nothing.

That's not meditation, but it could be useful to you.

It's not a problem of language, it's a problem of understanding. If you truly understood a thing it would be easy to talk about. And you can't understand a thing without making nuanced distinctions. So it's a problem of distinctions.

I don't use it.

I am talking about professional photos, not some potato phone selfie pics. You cannot manipulate the fundamentals of your looks. If you have shit pics just because you took lazy pics, that's on you of course. But I am talking about 100% optimal pics. You have to understand that all these pickup coaches are biased. They don't care about truth, they tell you whatever sells their services. They themselves don't understand that they are self-deceived. Because it would invalidate their business. It's pointless to theorize about this. Just go test it. Look at Owen from RSD. He does zero online game. Why? Because it's obvious to him that he will never get a hot girl through online given his looks. But in-person he can do well with his charisma. If your goal is to find yourself the one dream girlfriend, online game is gonna be your worst option because that's the lowest quality girl you can get. If your goal is just to sleep with a bunch of random girls, online is perfect for that.

How often did you take it and did you develop any tolerance? Thanks for sharing.

You trying to get me canceled bro? Nice try.

I have done in-depth scientific A/B split testing of various online profiles. I've created fake profiles for men and women to test. So I know for a fact it doesn't work for me. You got different looks, so it might work for you. By all means try it and see if it works for you. But if you think anything but looks matters online, you're kidding yourself. You can easily test this by creating fake profiles.

That's what the epistemic part of my work teaches you. Watch the videos.

That has nothing to do with getting hormones or surgery. Are you deliberately being bad faith?

That doesn't happen. These are a handful of freak of nature cases at best. No toddler is getting hormones or surgery. Maybe they change their name from John to Sally and wear a dress.

My dating experience is of course skewed. But not with respect to dating girls in major cities in the US. I've gamed in other cities. It's not much different. Of course it is. Most girls you sleep with can become your lifelong partner if you want. It's just a matter of chemistry and connection. You won't have it with all the girls you sleep with. Nobody goes around looking for soulmates. You bang and then stuff progresses. The guys I know here are hardcore pickup guys so that's not what they are looking for. If a guy is in a long-term relationship then I don't meet him out much. I know one hardcore pickup guy who got himself a smokin hot wife. They seem happy. They might have an open relationship, I'm not sure. Yes, but I take that into account. My views will not apply to people who do very traditional marriage type of stuff like in India. But as long as you're talking about casual dating and hook-up culture, my views apply to that. Standards are indeed subjective but most guys have objectively low standards. I've confirmed this through extensive experience. I've only ever met one guy with higher standards than mine. My standards are insanely high. Girls don't sleep with guys based on what kind of boyfriend he would be. All they react to is emotional stimulation. She is never doing any kind of long-term logical calculation before sleeping with you.

And that does not happen. The right-wing loves to strawman about such things, but in reality people go through extensive and serious discussions with doctors. And 14 year olds are not getting their dicks cut off.

They are confident but also dysfunctional and insecure in deep ways that they themselves are not even aware of. It's an awareness problem. You can be very stupid and wrong but 100% confident. Just look at any religious person.

Still doesn't align with the clinical data. They are not just measuring them for regret the day after the surgery. Obviously there is a period of acclimation.

Irrelevant. Sociopathy works everywhere. Nothing about Vegas makes it work. Which is why it worked in Romania. You can travel to any major city in the US and get laid as a sociopath. In fact, that's exactly what sociopaths do. They like to travel around to escape the consequences of their exploits. Cheap and easy global travel is a sociopath's dream come true. Which is why Tate has like 6 passports.

@tuckerwphotography Nice share!

If they have zero regret then what is the problem? Who are you to tell a person what's bad for them? As a doctor you have to listen to how your patient is feeling, not what you think is theoretically good for them.