yewler [she/her]

Actually all of the spaces you have mentioned have “trivial” examples that fit the definition of what it means to be that type of space, but are very boring. For example, the trivial vector space is a vector space where the only thing that exists is the zero vector. Though it is significantly more obvious that such a trivial example exists for topologies, just by looking at the definition.

The definition of a topology is the way that it is so that there is a notion of closeness at the local level, but not really at the macro level. I’m sure you’ve heard that topologists can’t tell the difference between a coffee cup and a donut. This is because a continuous deformation exists that can transform the coffee cup into the donut. So we don’t really care about distances at the larger level (distances get all sorts of fucked up through this transformation). However, it is a continuous transformation, which intuitively just means that if two points were “close” before the transformation, they are also “close” after the transformation. So we still care about distance at that level.

I would like to throw in another possibility that I haven’t seen discussed though: vector spaces of functions. This I think solves some of the problems you run into with n-dimensional vector spaces, since you can choose whatever domain and range you want for your functions. So a specific gender could be an element of this function space, of the form f:X -> F, where X is some set and F is some field. This seems to have the generality you’re looking for without the fluidity of topologies. Note that when X is of the form {1, 2, …, n} and F is the set of reals, we get an n-dimensional vector space.

I’m also a math grad student but I suck so bad at arithmetic

I would like to express interest. I keep trying to look at tracha but it really is so overwhelming. I would love a sort of tracha-lite if it was manageable

Uhhhhhhhhh I’m going thrifting with a couple of friends in 20 mins and one of those friends offered to help me with my hair and also I finally heard back from the place I was trying to get HRT at and they’re calling me later this week to officially get me on the schedule.

It’s a good day in gender town

I stood up for myself and my gender for the first time today. A friend kept degendering me and I asked him not to.

Kind of a small thing but I feel proud of myself since I’ve always had a poor self esteem

Hell yessss congrats!

Kendrick just opened his mouth

Everything can be adequately explained by poopoo. It’s the Grand Unifying Theory of Poopoo

Just thinking about the time I was first making my lemmygrad account and they asked me what my thoughts were on trans people or something, and probably what they were wanting is some 1-2 sentence “yeah trans people are cool and based” but I couldn’t stop myself from hitting them with a several paragraph long rant about how in my ideal world gender wouldn’t exist because it’s kind of a prison, and that trans people are not only hella awesome, but understanding their lived experiences and perspectives on gender is something everyone should strive for.

Who could have known I would eventually be sitting here with a cute lil [she/her] sitting next to my username?

I can vouch for the need to spinny

I drank the first monster of my life today. Where do I pick up my trans license?

When I’m around new people who I’ve introduced myself as my chosen name to, I feel comfortable and amazing and more able to be myself. But when I’m around people I already knew before beginning this journey, I feel this weird tension and I’m not sure what to make of it.

If I were to ever look at myself in the mirror and see a pretty person, I’m not sure if I’d have the emotional bandwidth to be able to control what happened next.

Transgendertrans

Holy shit this is the best bit of all time

I love almost all of them

Omg I love those

It took me wayyyy too long to realize why there were no new posts in the mega every time I have refreshed today