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Transitioning isn’t always linear. It isn’t always “from one gender to another.” There’s a misconception that when people transition they increasingly conform to gender roles; that they reinforce the gender binary. If anything, the opposite is true. As we grow more confident in ourselves, we expand the boundaries of our presentation and how the world conceptualizes gender. The further on hormones I was, the less I felt tied up by the gender norms that restricted me throughout my teenage years. Transitioning can welcome in bodies to new forms of gender presentation and even create new genders. This development of self-consciousness isn’t just for us, it’s also a way of communicating that everyone should be able to express themselves. Transitioning isn’t just about gender: it’s about our ability to create community and understanding.
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omg why do white ppl love cheese so mu-
I actually didnt know that
The answer is apparently “because we’re actually able to eat it”
Fun fact: white people (specifically Northern European white people) have a genetic mutation that allows them to digest lactose even after weaning, which is abnormal for all mammals and also most humans. It’s theorized that because Northern Europe doesn’t get a lot of sun, an alternative source of vitamin D (like milk) would be a useful trait. It’s a very recent mutation that would only have happened after humans started domesticating animals like cows and goats.
oh no, my bizarre moment has come, cause lactose tolerance is actually A Thing I Know About because it’s played a fascinating role in human evolution for thousands of years. This chart displays some of the broad trends, but it’s giving near continental averages, which doesn’t showcase how this kind of thing really breaks down and some of the surprising exceptions.
Lactose tolerance is the majority trait for only a very few population groups: North Europeans (and therefore populations that draw heavily from that stock, such as America,) nomadic central Eurasians, and sub-Saharan pastoralist Africans, but that latter group is often overlooked. The vast majority of Africans cannot process lactose, but certain people groups whose lifestyles have revolved around cattle for thousands of years will have 80% and even approaching 100% lactose tolerance rates. They’d be spots of dark green amidst a sea of orange and burgundy on the above chart.
Our hunter-gatherer ancestors were almost entirely lactose intolerant, that is definitely the biological norm (and people groups who maintained that lifestyle, such as Native Americans, remained as such – along with groups who transitioned to sedentary agricultural lifestyles, but I’ll get into that). As such, lactose tolerance is an adaptive trait that only became prevalent in environments that exerted strong selective pressure for it. So, cows were domesticated some 10,000 odd years ago in the Middle East (and some have contended for an independent domestication event in Africa as well). In either case, cattle quickly spread across the continent and we know there was milking and cheese production at least 6,000 years ago in both the Nile and Mesopotamia. While cow meat would have been enjoyed by all, in agricultural societies milk and cheese would have been options, but hardly staples as there were plenty of other things to eat as well, and therefore there would have been no selective pressure for processing lactose. Also, sedentary societies had ways of processing milk and cheese that allowed lactose intolerant people to drink/eat dairy products. Fermenting milk or aging cheese breaks down lactose, making it a non issue once ingested. This is why fermented milk may seem utterly foul to many Westerners, but is extremely common in other parts of the world. But, fermentation and aging requires time, and the ability to store things in a single location for weeks or even months. Sedentary societies adapted the milk to fit their biology, but nomadic societies did the reverse.
There are still mobile pastoralist societies in Africa today, and there have been for thousands and thousands of years. For many of them, cows are not one of many dietary options, they are the single dietary staple around which their lifestyle revolves. Biologically, this means you gotta get with the program if you wanna survive. For most mobile tribes, fermentation and aging weren’t options, so there would have been strong selective pressure favoring those who could drink milk straight outta the cow, as they would have had an additional, highly nutritious food source available to them. Milk also allowed for a marked shortening of the weaning process, transitioning children from breastmilk to cow’s milk, which would again be advantageous for groups where both the men and women work and are always on the move. Over generations these populations specialized into essentially cow-based lifestyles, creating a survival niche highly advantageous to them, and fast forward thousands of years and there are groups in Africa with near ubiquitous lactose tolerance, while the rest of the continent (and the world really) is nearly entirely intolerant.
Many of these same factors would have influenced the central Eurasian populations, which is why Mongolians and other descendants of nomadic steppe peoples are largely lactose tolerant, as mare’s milk would have been a dietary staple (though they also developed efficient ways to ferment it).
North Europeans developed lactose tolerance in response to deficiencies in certain nutrients. The northern climate limited Vitamin D production, and the agricultural products available to them were often low on calcium and protein, and so dairy farming developed alongside agriculture to create a more rounded diet (and this was limited to Northern Europeans, as Mediterranean peoples such as the Romans wrote about their great confusion at the northern barbarians’ ability to drink fresh milk)
And I promise all of this is fascinating because the ability to process lactose evolved independently in several different population groups and in response to different factors: lifestyles revolving around cows, lifestyles revolving around horses, deficiencies in climate and agriculture. Besides providing insight into human history and biology, lactose tolerance is also a great example of convergent evolution, where different genetic populations in different environments produce similar results.
And uh, that’s my rant about the role of milk and lactose tolerance in human evolution.
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Where do YALL even practice this prior to the game???
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People might not realize how groundbreaking this is to recognize in India.
So, I've realized that in order to thrive here I have to do something that I wish I didn't have to. I have to change my voice. I've become too relaxed, fortunately but unfortunately, at this stage in my transition, too fortunately but unfortunately mostly only surrounding myself with other queer and trans folks with whom it doesn't matter.
But I've come to realize that my only way to financially survive in this cultural climate is to "go stealth", as they say, unfortunately, and that means I need a habitual voice that passes for female, at all times. I've become so lax in affecting 'a natural female voice' that now when I do, my voice goes hoarse after just an hour or so. I used to raise the pitch of my voice a lot. Now I scarcely do.
I'm not reaching my potential, and I've realized how very afraid I've become of succeeding in life, and a lot of that has to do with increasingly self-segregating as a queer and trans person here in the South, and in China the last couple years before I left.
I'm about to print some business cards and make a much more comprehensive effort to get some solid tutoring going.
If you have any friends with kids learning (or you yourself are learning or want to learn) Chinese or French (or basic Spanish or German even) in school, and they want tutoring for that, send them my way please. I am not "American mobile" though -- I do not own a car. Public libraries, coffee shops, your home in Charleston, or online via Skype or Messenger for at-distance learners!
Languages are where I am most experienced in teaching, including English language arts, though sciences are also a solid check in my list. I can no longer offer tutoring services for a mere $15~20/hour, however. I'm worth more than that. My experience is worth more than that. I could be making $30~$60 per hour instead of having to pull all these bill balancing acts every month, or working for people in jobs that have nothing to do with my wealth of past professional experience, having lived and taught in China for 6 years and France for 1 year. I also would love to launch a China tour guide service for queer and trans people who want to visit Mainland China or Taiwan but are unsure how to navigate. This service would necessitate flying me to and from the destination with you, all my expenses on the ground covered, plus the actual fee for my touring and translation services, which naturally would be rad af ^_^
I'm happy I walked away from my 'decent paying job' recently because of the toxic environment in which my work ethic was being maddeningly taken advantage of with little return except superficial material comfort. The emotional labor there was a borderline abusive relationship with my employer, when you're essentially forced to manage disturbingly unreliable employees but you're not paid like a manager. I'm worth so much more.
But now I can't even sleep well every night because financially I'm facing a rough road ahead if I don't land something solid asap.
So, I will be changing my voice, indefinitely. Please help me not feel like a phony or a sellout for doing so. I would also appreciate any *objective critiques* using an objective ear, not a trans/queer-positive ear. Queer & (nonbinary) trans folks don't care or judge what your voice sounds like, but I'm saying that I'm requesting to be JUDGED, critiqued, and guided without filters. I have little choice but to essentially go stealth as a trans woman out in the world, which also means a few other changes I have to make because really I'm just so nonbinary and genderqueer, androgynous sometimes even.
Thanks for your support as I permanently change my habitual voice. I have all the techniques down btw. It's just a matter of habituation and establishing that physical muscle memory so that it becomes second nature. I used to pretty much be there, but then I stopped caring and let my voice drop again. Trans men, you're lucky in at least that aspect that your voice gets changed *for* you with testosterone. Trans women aren't so fortunate there with estradiol. But hey, I know we have some transition advantages too ^_^ Green grass green grass.
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