Hey!!! Thanks for replying. But did you or anyone you know consider chemical cisgenderization? Or any mention of such in the forums? I would it expect it to be a much stronger effect than eg joining the military. Although I hear it is common for men in the military to take steroids, so maybe there would be some samples there.... I imagine taking cis hormones is not an attractive idea, because if you dislike the result then you're worse off than you started.

(Oh and we were still together then. LK has child now, not sure how that affects the equation.)

Thank you! Seems like this bot works quite well for this task

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Good luck!

Thanks for the cached explanation, this is similar to what I thought before a few days ago. But now I'm thinking that an older-but-still-youthful mouse would be better at avoiding predators and could be just as fertile, if mice were long lived. So the food & shelter might be "better spent" on them, in terms of total expected descendants. This would only leave the disease explanation, yes?

Where has the "rights of the living vs rights of the unborn" debate already been had? In the context of longevity. (Presuming that at some point an exponentially increasing population consumes its cubically increasing resources.)

Hey thanks much for sharing new info with me. What a nice comment to read. I was sure someone would come by and be pissed and mean as hell, but folks have been engaging in quite good faith.

but I'm more reserved

I think this might point at the central problem with my evidence. People vary in how publicly they live their lives by orders of magnitude. It could be that only 1% of math geniuses are trans women but they post / get views on Twitter 100x more. Or a similar thing in high school and the workplace. Math professors tend to live quiet lives...

Anyway, unfortunately I think this post might be kinda too toxic/hurtful for the average reader to be worthwhile overall (although nobody has mentioned that to me) and I'll probably move it to a pastebin or something.

I think the basic question (whether hormones are fucking or helping your brain long-term) is quite important and deserves a better treatment. I might try to do that eventually.

Any ideas?

They keywords are much appreciated. That second link is only from 2022! I wonder if anybody suggested this in like 1900. Edit: some of the citations are from very long ago

maybe you die young so you don't get your descendants sick

I've always wondered why evolution didn't select for longer lifespans more strongly. Like, surely a mouse that lives twice as long would have more kids and better knowledge of safe food sources. (And lead their descendants to the same food sources.) I have googled for an explanation a few times but not found one yet.

I thought of a potential explanation the other day. The older you get, the more pathogens you take on. (Especially if you're a mouse.) If you share a den with your grandkids then you might be killing them. Also, if several generations live together, then endemic pathogens stick with the clan much longer. This might eventually wipe out your clan if one of the viruses etc has a bad mutation.

If you die before your offspring even hatch then you might not pass them any pathogens. Especially if you swim a mile up a river that's dry 90% of the year. https://youtube.com/watch?v=63Xs3Hi-2OU This is very funny and 1 minute long.

Most birds leave the nest (yes?) so perhaps that's why there's so many long-lived birds.

Although IIRC, bats live a really long time and have a mountain of pathogens.

Anybody know if this explanation is fleshed out somewhere, or know a better explanation?