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There's Cis and trans women athletes (the latter a current target of reactionary response). Yes estrogen is not as advantageous to muscle growth but women/femmes can still be muscular.
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I've definitely thought of this myself. Estrogen vials from DIY can last 5 years and are quite small to have a supply that long. Stopping HRT is also not the end of the world. Menopause is Cis women basically running out of estrogen and it's rough but they live. If there's still a source of testosterone (no orchie) that is not going undo some estrogen changes like breast growth.
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Others in the thread can answer as to options based on geography. Some doses of estrogen injection are quite standard. Some of our foremothers thousands of years ago were eating cheese made with fermented pregnant mare's piss and chewing black cohosh and just kind of winging it for their whole lives. A couple of years of winging with the modern estrogen might be fine.
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The problem I had with that is surely there’s still something Superman can do to help the war effort (in universes where he was around). That SMBC comic where he’s a transitional source of renewable energy by cranking an electromagnet, or IDK helping a shipyard pump out aircraft carriers etc
What I do like about Marvel is they did deploy their heroes in WW2. Captain America, Bucky and the Invaders (Namor, Human Torch, Toro, Spitfire, Union Jack etc).
Just none of these guys are exceptionally powerful. Maybe Namor but he got more powerful as he aged. So they could be the tip of the spear but not win the war instantly.
The Human Torch did burn Hitler alive though at the end of the war instead of what happened IRL.
Plus the Nazis had their own supes. Master Man, Warrior Woman, Iron Cross etc. uhh Thor that one time Hitler tricked him into trying to kill Stalin.
The soviet union even had a WW2 "Red Guardian" their Captain America.
There was a neat comic a decade or so ago about "The Crazy S.U.E.S." (Special unit enhanced soldiers) which was about all the minor WW2 marvel superheroes (who in real life had comics during WW2) and the gimmick was the IRL comics were the in universe propaganda in WW2 and when the stopped getting published IRL that was because the supe had been killed fighting Nazis in universe.
Most if these guys had real minor powers or no powers just Watchmen style.
I finished Chapter 19: You’re Just Someone I Was Forced to Know
And the bit where Stephanie switches to using She/Her, both as her pronouns but in the text itself made me cry and huh I'm going to need do some ruminating on this.
Self criticism time. I always thought the concept of bibliotherapy was bogus. As in doing therapy through a book.
But I think reading Sisters of Dorley Hall is actively helping me work through a bunch of stuff.
Cuba Libre were made to celebrate Cuba's war of independence in the late 19th century against Spain, as part of the Spanish-American war. They get drunk in Havana and by exiles in Miami.
It's weird to change it to Belarus.
Oh yeah, it’s been a while I should rewatch. I think Twin Peaks is its own special thing but it definitely plays with these various tropes.
It's a bit of an edge case but spiritually I think it fits. Because initially Dale Cooper is more of the trope of the outsider cop who comes into a place where things are unfamiliar and not what they seem on the surface, as opposed to the police officer working their normal job and then things get weird. But then he also stays and become local law enforcement and the weird stuff is certainly above his paygrade.
Even if true that's 0.000011% of their population.
Throwing off a weighted hoodie, "by boymode-ing I was hiding my power level"
Okay that's tough. And shit that it happened.
Again depends on your circumstances but might be worth investigating what the ramifications would be if you knew, so that if you find out later or you feel you want to warn the classs against further events etc(that also you need to weigh pros and cons).
Technically even people without testicles aren't dependent on testosterone or estrogen. It's rough but you have some hormones from adrenal glands.
Court Eunarchs have been a thing across history and many lived long lives. There's all sort of additional health complications like osteoporosis. But it's not like you drop dead without estrogen or testosterone.
Even today there's people due to hormonal related cancers (prostate or testicular, breast or ovarian) who have to be deprived of sex hormones either chemically or surgically to treat the cancer and prevent it's return.