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[–] 2 points 1 week ago* (3 children)

yeah but seriously i also wonder how much is because we have the medicine today. i feel like all of the cute transfem that i meet started sometime around 2023 (plus or minus 5 years). i reckon it's because all the modern medicine only got available in the last few years with the advanced research and pharmaceutical production tools that we have today.

i.e. the modern way to produce a lot of drugs (GMO bacteria) only started being researched after 1960 when the people understood that there's something like genes and DNA to start with. actually it's interesting how the research into genetics took off at the same time as the research into computers ... and look how long it took to go from the first microchip in 1962 to the smartphone ... or modern linux desktop computer.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    There's been feminizing HRT for a good several decades; probably at least half a century. It's become more available, as has knowledge of trans people in general, but it isn't all that new.

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  • yeah insulin (for diabetes people) also was available in 1900. just that it was very tedious to produce it back then (it had to be extracted from the internal organs of slaughtered farm animals). it became widely available and very cheap sometime in the last few decades because of genetically engineered microorganisms. and that helps a lot.

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