Sex-Change Medical Costs Are Tax-Deductible, U.S. Court Rules!!!!!!

[brightinvictus.livejournal.com]

The Washington-based court ruled yesterday that hormone therapies and sex reassignment surgeries are necessary to treat gender identity disorder, a disease, in the case of a Boston- area man who became a woman named Rhiannon O’Donnabhain.

Full story here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20100203/pl_bloomberg/aqacvuseeas4/print

AWESOME!!!!!!!!

This is wonderful news!!!

T as birth control?

[homo-impetus.livejournal.com]

I have seen several posts around lj now that either state, ask or imply that being on T can be used as a birth control method.

I get that some people have their ovaries "shut down" and that it stops one's period (ymmv).
However, I don't consider being on T as a method for not getting pregnant while having PIV sex with non-trans guys. And I would never suggest to anyone that it was.

What are y'alls' thoughts on this topic?







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Science Question

[shenth.livejournal.com]

My osteology class brought up an interesting question: How does HRT interact with osteoporosis? Hormonal levels have been associated with the problem in post-menopausal cis women, but I don't know if research has been done on trans people who have undergone hormone-related procedures, including orchiectomies or hysterectomies as well as HRT.

Does anyone know if this research has been done, and if so, where to find it?