About
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Authors
The authors for Transfeminine Science include Aly, Lain, Sam, Mitzi, and Luna.
Aly
Aly (“she/her”) is a transgender woman from California. She has long had a passionate interest in transfeminine hormone therapy and pharmacology generally. Aly began her transition in the early 2010s and has studied the transgender medical literature since. She has a bachelor’s degree with summa cum laude distinction from a University of California. Aly also completed some of the pre-medicine curriculum and worked for about a year as an appointed volunteer faculty member in research labs at the university. Aside from medical areas, Aly has experience with computer programming and web development.
Aly was a volunteer editor on Wikipedia for many years. She was a prolific medical editor at the online encyclopedia and contributed a large amount of content in the area of sex hormone pharmacology over time. Since then, Aly decided to retire from Wikipedia editing. When Aly has included inline citations to Wikipedia on Transfeminine Science, they have usually been to content that she herself authored.
Lain
Lain (“they/them”) is non-binary and transfeminine. They completed a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics and studied bioinformatics and computational biology at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. After withdrawing from their Ph.D. program, Lain migrated to the much warmer climes of the San Francisco Bay Area to work in tech.
As a person entrenched in nightlife community, specifically raving, Lain reformed and ran a nightlife harm reduction non-profit chapter for over 3 years, Bay Area DanceSafe. At DanceSafe they produced harm reductive literature on pertinent drugs and organized harm reduction booths at various festivals and raves. Through this direct outreach to the nightlife community, Lain led volunteers providing peer education on drugs, consent, sex education, and other pertinent topics as well as substance adulterant testing and harm reduction interventions. As a chapter head, they advocated for the normalization of harm reduction and the reform of drug policy working with peer organizations such as the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), the Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), and also by speaking at several events in the Bay Area.
As Lain began to medically transition, they began to passionately research endocrinology and transgender medicine and became involved with Transfeminine Science for a few years.
Sam
Sam (“she/her”) is a transgender woman from London, United Kingdom. She has no formal medical or research qualifications, but has an intense interest in evidence-based medicine and adherence to the scientific method. Her major interests in transgender health include the relatively uncommon to rare adverse effects of hormone therapy in transfeminine people, such as thromboembolism and other cardiovascular diseases. Specifically, she is interested in how the safety of different hormone therapy medications and dosages might compare. Sam read and kept up to date with the formal medical literature since she began to hormonally transition in 2018. She was involved with Transfeminine Science for a few years and contributed several articles to the site.
Mitzi
Mitzi (“she/they”) is a non-binary transfeminine person who lives in London, United Kingdom. She is prolifically active in DIY HRT communities, where she acts as an educator and advocates a harm reduction approach to self-medication. Mitzi frequently navigates situations that involve transgender homelessness, domestic violence, healthcare discrimination, and substance use both online and locally, and has held advisory roles for a variety of small grassroots organizations, including Trans Healthcare Network, Gender Construction Kit, and Bluelight.
Mitzi has a broad interest in medical academia, with a particular passion for endocrinology and psychopharmacology. She is an outspoken critic of her country’s transgender healthcare system, and has self-medicated for the duration of her own transition.
Luna
Luna (“she/they”) is a non-binary trans woman and computer scientist from the United Kingdom. She developed the advanced injectable estradiol simulator by modifying Aly’s original simulator code.
Contact
Transfeminine Science is no longer accepting contact inquiries. For questions and advice about hormone therapy, please refer instead to the online transgender community.
History
Transfeminine Science originated from the informational content on transfeminine hormone therapy that was created by transfeminine people in the transgender hormone therapy community on the social media website Reddit. Aly began creating content in August 2018, with other authors soon joining the effort. A couple years later, Aly developed and founded Transfeminine Science, which was launched in October 2020, and the existing content on Reddit was adapted and moved to the site. Transfeminine Science has served as a dedicated platform for the articles and for new content since it was started.
Disclaimer
The writers of Transfeminine Science are not medical professionals, academic researchers, or recognized experts in transgender health. Transfeminine Science articles emulate the format of scientific journal articles because this is an excellent format for scientific writing. However, it should be noted that Transfeminine Science itself is not a scientific journal and the content on this site has not been formally published nor scholarly peer-reviewed. Readers should not take the content on Transfeminine Science as authoritative. Instead, it should be considered as a supplementary resource to the information contained in transgender care guidelines and the medical literature in general.
Transfeminine Science is not specifically aimed at transfeminine people on do-it-yourself (DIY) hormone therapy. Rather, it is intended for transfeminine people on hormone therapy generally, as well as for medical providers and academics in transgender health. The authors of Transfeminine Science feel that wherever possible, decisions about medical care should be made in partnership with a health care professional. We recognize that this is not the case for many however, due to choice or circumstances, and we aim to help inform this important and undeserved community of individuals as well.
License
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