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i never claimed that, i responded in jest to your comparison with a sarcastic hypothetical (if surgery regret for trans people was as high as it is for spinal surgery would you consider that rate acceptable?). a hypothetical question which I rephrased and posed again in a more thoughtful manner in my next post, which you continued to ignore. the ISSM study you responded to me with literally includes a paragraph about people who regretted their decision. The size of this population will only increase over time regardless of what percentage of the overall population they are. is this a good thing? is this worth it? how will this group of people affect culture and the transgender dialogue once it gets too large to continue ignoring? are these people not worthy of empathy? Imagine struggling and being confused your whole life with something only to finally get the treatment you've convinced yourself will be the solution but even that doesn't fix you? Imagine feeling as if you failed at being a man AND a woman, like you cant even fulfill a basic qualification of being a human? And now you're stuck with severe physical consequences (which may turn off potential intimate partners adding insult to injury) and have to life the rest of your life with that. Besides, throwing around a bunch of stats is almost completely meaningless when: a) not only is there is tremendous social pressure to respond in a certain way ("will i be shunned for admitting this view?" "will all my lgbt friends hate me?"). but there is an enormous risk of self-deception. people rationalize their extreme decisions to justify them all the time. and plenty more will just never admit they were wrong about something because its too embarrassing, or they're already in too deep. There is no way to know how many "false positives" there are from a study like this. b) Speaking of false positives, there are many different reasons a person might seek out these treatments and claim to not be regretful which are *not* equivalent. For example, a male-born person who grows up acting naturally feminine and claiming to be a girl all their life without outside influence and decides to transition is a completely different situation from somebody who desires to transition because they've developed strange sexual fixations due to a traumatic personal history. or what about people who have no real gender issues but are just really into body mods and self-experimentation? all of these people would have equal access to the same treatments and would respond as "not regretting". c) hormone and surgery treatments have existed for a while but never on the scale like we've seen over the last decade (or two at best). So it is not possible to have accurate data on how these treatments affect large populations of people in the long term because the majority of people receiving these treatments have only done so relatively recently. This is the kind of thing that needs to be researched over much broader time scales with much larger and less biased samples (the cultural landmine that the issue had ended up becoming makes it extremely hard to eliminate bias so even that is pretty tricky). d) these treatments are not static procedures, like the entire field of medicine they are constantly developing and changing. EVERY culture in history has had gender-non-conforming people, and different cultures dealt with it in radically different ways, this implies the obvious eventuality that the way we think about and treat non-cis people will NOT remain as it is now. What if by 2040 there's some kind of AR tech or psychedelic or something that allows the user to alter their perception of their own body to feel like the opposite sex for as long as they want, eliminating the need for medical intervention? That would make the way we deal with the issue now seem almost barbaric in contrast wouldn't it? and e) Science doesn't fully understand how the brain works, science doesn't fully understand how the endocrine system works, science doesn't fully understand how gender and sex work. yet when it comes to this particular issue people start shouting "trust the science!" as if we know with absolute certainty that the current theories regarding some of the most complex systems in our body are completely 100% accurate and that we can manipulate them as much as we want with no ramifications. even cis-men and cis-women who receive hormone therapy with their own gender's hormones can and do have long term negative health impacts of a wide variety depending on a multitude of factors and must decide if the trade-offs are worth it. but if trans people decide to radically alter their endocrine system for the rest of their lives we shouldn't be concerned about the increased risk of dementia, blood clots, heart disease, stroke, bone fractures and whatever else that these people will experience as they age from decades of hormone supplementation?

you're not even trying to engage with the point i was making. Detrans people both with and without surgery with various levels of regret exist, it doesnt matter how many there are (besides, it would obviously be underreported since it's a socially embarrassing thing to admit). The more widespread gender-altering surgeries and treatments become the more detrans people there will eventually be regardless of what percentage of the population it is. is this a good thing for society? I don't pretend I have the answer to this but that's the kind of concern a lot of conservatives have that many stage green types seem to want to pretend doesnt exist.

I was thinking Musk would just bleed money behind the scenes and leave the site mostly untouched for a while. Seems that won't be the case. I had a huge addiction to twitter for many years and gave it up a couple years ago. So I wouldn't be too upset if the place collapses into nothing.

so it would be totally fine if 21% of people (more than 1 in 5!) who had reassignment surgery regretted it because that's within the typical range of surgery regret?

extensive psychological screening by who exactly? Are they trustworthy? do we place full trust in the authority of whoever "unambiguously determined" something so subjective? "literally no harm is done" by puberty blockers... How does radically interrupting the natural hormone system of a child equal no harm? How do you know that putting kids though such stressful and confusing circumstances at such an important stage of development won't have long-lasting psychological effects for the rest of their lives? it's also an undeniable fact that de-trans people are real. that is far more than "some nebulous unforeseeable consequence". Imagine being convinced for years that you should be one way only to realize you were wrong after you've already made numerous irreversible alterations to your body. Is a growing population of de-trans folks the collateral damage that we have to accept if we want to be trans-inclusive? Is that trade off worth making?

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No wigs. Start wearing cool hats instead.

You can do the same thing with other base tryptamines. Put MET or MIPT in your substrate and you'll get 4-HO-MET and 4-HO-MIPT. a cool quality of mushrooms for sure deserving of more study, and possibly a viable route to new psychedelic discovery. but definitely not an efficient way to actually trip on the results (since its such an inefficient method and it'll be mixed with the natural psilocybin in the mushroom anyway).

I used Dall-E to make some art for a single I released a couple months ago. It came out pretty decently. Though I didn't just plug in any old suggestion until i found something I liked, I used the app to generate components of the art that I had in mind and assembled them together in an arrangement i liked.

if youre not going to tell them just take a microdose. if i was a therapist and someone came to a session on a full dose of any drug without telling me I'd probably reconsider having that person as my client. Don't force people to be trip sitters without consent.

You're paranoid af, this would not be viable in the US but Canada is not the US. This has been going on for years with tens of thousands (more?) of customers across the country. They are so reliable that many of these sources are MORE trustworthy than the darkweb. The place I order mushrooms from even had their founder share his real name and do an interview about his growing techniques. Of course scams do still exist and need to be watched out for, but drugs are basically de-facto decriminalized in Vancouver. Nobody is getting arrested for psychedelics here. Come to Canada and visit the psychedelic promised land.

It's completely safe as long as you order domestically. There are dozens of legit clearnet vendors who've been operating for years in a similar way to how cannabis was sold in Canada online for years before it was legalized. In Vancouver stickers advertising mushroom and LSD websites and dispensaries are practically on every street corner.

You can order most psychedelics on the clearnet in Canada. I don't know how they get away with it. I guess the laws just aren't enforced.

Tried it a few times this week and mostly just got some swirly colors. My pupils were dilated completely, I could see increased symmetry in textures, and some moving and warping and color enhancements, but not much really happened beyond that. Obviously I got a relatively weak dose, but I did have a fair bit of anxiety built up about smoking the dmt, and how chill it turned out to be at the dose i got helped to reassure me that i didnt need to worry as much. I wouldnt say it was a letdown, because I still enjoyed it, but it definitely was not a significant enough experience to convince me that DMT might be preferred over mushrooms or LSD since this small dose didn't bring me any insights or anything. It was like the visuals of 3 grams of mushrooms for 15 minutes, but the headspace of like half a gram, so it wasn't as radically reality altering as I had been bracing myself for. I definitely plan on going deeper, but I'm glad the lower dose went as well as it did. Was a good place to start.

If youre posting on this forum the education part is mostly repeating things you already know, as far as that aspect is concerned it is definitely aimed more at psychedelic naive people. But I think the true value of this doc is contained in the footage of therapy sessions and the testimonials of the participants. There's some very inspiring stories of healing especially in the 3rd episode about MDMA therapy, that was by far the highlight of the series for me.

Not everyone gets nausea and vomiting. My San Pedro trip was three quarters a great time, and one quarter explosive diarrhea. Also it tastes horrid. The human body was not built to digest cactus. I would like to try pure mescaline to compare however, because i suspect a lot of the digestive issues come from the fact that there are a ton of other alkaloids in there for your body to deal with beyond just the mescaline.

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I've been mulling this over myself as a virgin who's starting to date more often. I think the decision I've come to is being honest about my relationship history (or lack thereof) which will likely give the girl the impression that I'm probably a virgin without saying it directly. I think the only time I would say it outright is if the girl directly asked, if it came up in conversation somehow where it would be weirder to avoid saying it.

@RMQualtrough I haven't tried Salvia but I think I can safely say that weed is nothing like salvia for me haha. Weed is generally blissful for me, and the state it puts me in allows my mind to get in a flow of thought and deep introspection. I've brought myself to many beautiful epiphanies through weed that have helped me to put the pieces together when dealing with some personal issues. It also allows me to feel free to dance and move. (I prefer energizing sativa strains, and like to go on long nature hikes with music when I smoke weed). I also find that it can take on characteristics of the most recent psychedelic I took, and it combines especially wonderfully with LSD. When I have a low tolerance I can get mandala-live visual patterns with both eyes open and closed, as well as enhanced colors and everything takes on a hazy warm glow. That being said it works well for me, but I don't think weed is an essential psychedelic because only a relatively small percentage of users will actually gain consistent positive spiritual benefits from it (and plenty of people get uncomfortably high their first time smoking weed and so dont pursue it further).

If you reached a breakthrough on weed I wouldn't be too shocked. I could probably reach it if I took a sizeable tolerance break (and even with my typical tolerance I can still go pretty deep with weed on a regular basis). In my observations of myself and others ive got the impression weed can have the potential to function almost like a reactivation trigger of some sort in psychedelic users. So if youve gone really deep on something else that will be able to be recalled to some extent. This is exaggerated further if you have zero tolerance, have very high quality weed, and also the closer to a recent psychedelic experience you smoke the weed (when I smoke weed the day after a strong LSD trip I will be fully tripping again).

I think you're just kidding here, but if anyone seriously wanted to try this I'd advise against it because self-administering drugs into your dick would be a great way to give yourself priapism.

plenty of good tips in this thread so far, but I'll add that you shouldn't go in with huge expectations especially if you're just starting with a low dose. It's totally possible you may be underwhelmed. Don't rely on all your problems being solved by one trip or something like that, I sometimes see people going into first-time psychedelic experiences with that expectation and then end up disappointed. It takes time and practice to get good at working within those states.

5g but they were weaker shrooms. My deepest mushroom trip to date was on about 3.5g. The weight is not always an indicator of how strong the trip will be!

Don't know if it's accessible to you but what's called a "PSILO-Q" Magic Mushroom Test Kit is available in Canada. I haven't used it because I get whole mushrooms most of the time, but the vendor I use tests their mushrooms with this kit to list their potency so I presume it works decently well.

Just take smaller doses if you don't want as much mindfuck.