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#Journalist --> Presenter & Consultant at Transport Evolved.
Part time ER nurse.

House restorer. Classic cars. Old-school geekery. Occasional jewelry maker.

Views are my own, not of any employer.

So good at gender the government gave me a certificate.

#BLM #trans #LGBTQIA #BIPOC #TransPOC #queer #geek #progressive

Blog: https://pyoor.org
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/pyoorkate.bsky.social (mainly reposts)
Writing: https://www.scribblehub.com/profile/139222/pyoorkate/

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Joined February 10, 2023

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PNW, USA, for now.

Music:

Basically all of it.

Geekery:

House Reno, #RetroComputing #ClassicCars #Making

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Vaguely here 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @pyoor@lgbtqia.space · May 18, 2026

Hey quick USian question. Has anyone got #BBL paid for by #Regence / #BlueShield / #BlueCross insurance (anywhere in the states, but WA would be most useful), and if you have do you mind sharing which provider it was with?

(DM's fine)

Thank you! (Please go ahead and share for more reach).

Vaguely here 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @pyoor@lgbtqia.space · Apr 02, 2026

Just a little note that the small press I run released our third book into the wild. The delightful trans het romance Bottle Blondes.

It's available from https://antithesispress.com/shop, as always.

#lgbtqia #fiction #trans #queer #bookstodon

Vaguely here 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @pyoor@lgbtqia.space · Feb 21, 2026

A little reminder that the small press I run is open for #LGBTQIA2S+ fiction submissions.

https://forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=RtSoVQhaGUGRXZ5S75ZdyJmNrC96EclEjt70RJAEOhVUQjdUWERaRkI5SzY4NDcyTUlPSlkyS0s1Wi4u

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Vaguely here 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @pyoor@lgbtqia.space · Feb 05, 2026

Today I get to set up our accounting software because the spreadsheet we've been using is so entirely not going to cut it. We have software for royalties management, but the rest of the accounting stuff not so much.

Vaguely here 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @pyoor@lgbtqia.space · Nov 23, 2025

Replying to @pyoor@lgbtqia.space

@batchofcookies@mastodon.social I'm glad we talked :)

Vaguely here 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @pyoor@lgbtqia.space · Nov 20, 2025

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@batchofcookies@mastodon.social I think that others have sufficiently answered this question - First, the personal: from my position I'm 47 and still undoing the damage that my wrong-sex puberty wrought on my body. I got to start HRT *young* for 2000. I started at 20 years old. By then I'd already got changes to my body that I couldn't undo and that hurt me to look at and consider. It's taken me a *very long time* to come to terms with and love my body and I'm still thinking of expensive surgery to change some stuff that makes me dysphoric. Every day of puberty->adulthood I considered killing myself. I held knives, I thought about jumping in front of vehicles, I remember looking out of the upper story windows of the biochemistry tower when I was at uni and I thought about jumping. That was Every. Single. Day. Because every day my body betrayed me. I nearly killed myself at 20, I was so fucking scared and all that could have been avoided. All that pain and trauma. And look, I love my life now. It's really hard for me to think how I'd change mine because I love my wife, I have a home and pets, and *really phenomenal* friends. But fuck, if I could go back and fix it for teen me? I would. The not personal: We know - from evidence - that nearly all trans kids who go on blockers go on to seek HRT. We know kids who *aren't* treated go on to kill themselves (and kids in unaffirming environments try to do so at a rate of 70+%, as demonstrated by the studies in the US post the banning of blockers; also incredibly damning is the fact the NHS now refuses to release or tracks stats properly for self harm/suicide for trans for kids now they're denied blockers). We know from the evidence that it's better for >99% of the kids treated. So the alternative is that we don't treat - because we're concerned that <1% would have the pain that you're putting the >99% through now. Putting the risk we *might* harm one cis kid above more than one hundred trans kids we'd save from that torture? I don't see how that's acceptable. And honestly? If you don't feel better on HRT you can stop it. I know how I felt when my primary circulating sex hormone was testosterone and it was *fucking awful*. Nearly all trans people I know feel better on HRT. Some are ambivalent about it but like the changes in their body. These aren't *immediately irreversible*. Kids take *years* to get through puberty. They can start it and go "oh shit, no, this is worse" and stop no harm no foul. But what you can't ever do is completely eradicate the pain caused by going through the wrong puberty - and those trans kids that survive this? They're going to be righteously angry because this is trauma inflicted for a tiny few to harm many.

Vaguely here 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @pyoor@lgbtqia.space · Nov 20, 2025

Replying to @pyoor@lgbtqia.space

We know that nearly all kids who start on puberty blockers go on to hrt (because, shockingly, kids actually have insight into themselves). We know from the evidence it's better if kids have their puberty at the same time as their cis cohort. So just give them the fucking hrt. Blockers were always a compromise and if cis people can't compromise then let's do the best thing for the trans kids.

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Vaguely here 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @pyoor@lgbtqia.space · Nov 20, 2025

Fucking done with appeasing cis people.

Give trans kids HRT.

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Vaguely here 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @pyoor@lgbtqia.space · Feb 15, 2025

Replying to @missnfranchised@glitterkitten.co.uk

@missnfranchised@glitterkitten.co.uk @forestpines@hachyderm.io it's been used since at least the 1930s if you're trans, and yet many cis and trying-to-be cis folks seem unaware of its power.

Vaguely here 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @pyoor@lgbtqia.space · Feb 15, 2025

Replying to @pyoor@lgbtqia.space

@bunny_jane@plush.city @maco@wandering.shop I definitely did not have hips. I remember trying on some mens dress pants that I thought might be fun to have altered and realized there was no way my arse was getting in them and that was when I realized I'd significantly changed shape.

Vaguely here 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @pyoor@lgbtqia.space · Feb 15, 2025

Replying to @bunny_jane@plush.city

@bunny_jane@plush.city @maco@wandering.shop oh yeah..nothing in life is guaranteed - but people have no idea that HRT will change anything at all. My friend thought all her trans friends were twinky femme looking before HRT and like I say, I looked like everyone's favourite torture basement breakfast cereal.

Vaguely here 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @pyoor@lgbtqia.space · Feb 13, 2025

Replying to @maco@wandering.shop

@maco@wandering.shop oh yeah. I mean there's that ridiculous study which people point to and say: "See, this says boobs stop growing at 2 years" but then fail to read that the study *ends* at 2 years. These DDs didn't appear overnight, folks. They took their sweet time. And we won't get into how the medical system often prescribes trans women menopausal levels of HRT. There's a really good reason so many trans femmes end up DIYing.

Vaguely here 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @pyoor@lgbtqia.space · Feb 13, 2025

Hey cis people & people desperately trying to convince themselves they're cis.

I wanted to clarify something that my newly out friend reminded me y'all don't know.

Affirming HRT dramatically changes you. Estrogen will soften your skin, change your facial fat distribution and give you breasts and hips.

A lot of what you see about your body isn't bone structure. It's fat distribution. That can - and does - change dramatically on HRT.

So yes, there's mental effects - some people's brains just work better on Testosterone & some on Estrogen.

And honestly, emotional range and regulation is awesome.

That's why a lot of trans folks describe suddenly seeing the world in colour, or being able to cry, or [insert stereotypical response here]

But also let's be clear, despite what brainwormed idiots on 4chan say, in your 30s, 40s and even beyond HRT can and will change your body.

So yes, if you're like unaware of this, to reiterate, my breasts grew not using magic, they weren't surgically implanted through breast augmentation (not that there's anything wrong with that). I grew them the old fashioned way - using drugs.

I wasn't twinky pre transition, I was weetabix shaped.

Oh and if you're like "I need to do x to improve my body before I start E/T", you know what'll really help?

Having your brain running on the hormone it is intended to work on. Not feeling like garbage every day. Experiencing the world in a way you can be present in it & get to feel joy and happiness.

Anyway, this has been your regularly scheduled post from the Trans Agenda.

I'm off to go look cute in exercise gear.

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Vaguely here 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @pyoor@lgbtqia.space · Apr 11, 2024

Replying to @Garwboy@ohai.social

@Garwboy@ohai.social We see this a lot in trans healthcare studies where they say "changes stop after 1/2/3 years on HRT". Talk to any trans people and they'll say, just like cis women / men, changes continue the rest of your life. It's just the studies stop.

Vaguely here 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @pyoor@lgbtqia.space · Feb 13, 2024

Replying to @Lazarou@mastodon.social

@Lazarou@mastodon.social @ben@bluetoot.hardill.me.uk @BBCRD@social.bbc to be fair, having met some other six music fans, I think most of the audience is on here already ;)

Vaguely here 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @pyoor@lgbtqia.space · Feb 13, 2024

Replying to @ben@bluetoot.hardill.me.uk

@ben@bluetoot.hardill.me.uk @BBCRD@social.bbc having the Six Music team on Masto would also be awesome.

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