At the Stoplight, As Elsewhere

Wed, 20 May 2026 08:15:35 -0500

I’m sitting in the car at a red light. It’s 6:10am, just on time to get my sisters to school. The man with the hand wiper and the Pepsi bottle full of diluted dish detergent walks up the car expectantly. For once, I let him. He smiles wide, happy to have a customer that wasn’t first a hostage this early in the morning.

There Is Still Time

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

So today I was thinking about HRT, as one does. Diabetes runs in my family, and if you know even a little bit about diabetes, you’d understand that it’s a disorder of the pancreas which is the organ of your body that produces insulin¹ , a hormone that allows your body to make use of glucose for energy. And given that I do eventually want to replace the testosterone in my system with oestrogen, I was wondering what, if any impact feminizing hormone replacement therapy would have on my risk for diabetes or creating complications therewith. That led me to start reading a few academic papers. From what I can tell, the science on this seems to conclude that there’s no proven increase in diabetes risk for trans women using HRT ² ³ , so that’s great!

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At the Stoplight, As Elsewhere

There Is Still Time