[AnnieBL]

In my previous post in this thread I was trying to take a conciliatory tone, but I think the time has come to speak my mind. While I am infinitely grateful to Eve for providing this forum, and I have nothing but admiration for Lotus's extremely valuable research work, and I can understand both of their desires to organize the forum and Eve's absolute right to do so, I believe that allowing sub-forums to breed like rabbits, however well intentioned, has seriously misfired and has proven highly divisive (quite apart from rendering the forum increasingly difficult to navigate and creating uncertainty as to where to post). Instead of having a single forum (pictures apart) that used comfortably to accommodate a wide range of interests in NBE, we now have a whole range of special interest groups who are increasingly at each others' throats. It is obvious from the responses in this thread that many members feel that their own interests are threatened, and when even the OP talks about 'taking a break and hibernating' then enough is enough. My own interest in this forum has always been what it can do to help me with my gender issues, and I have tried to give back, but some of the posts in this thread are beginning to make me feel unwelcome.
How can we put things back together again? Since there is now an endocrinology forum, I would suggest that most of Lotus' and others' research belongs there, and then the original forum can go back to accommodating everything else. So far as synthetics are concerned, I cannot see the objection to bio-identical human hormones (i don't expect everyone to agree)' and this should surely accommodate most of the members whose use of E2 is apparently now making them unwelcome in certain quarters here. Times change, and there is apparently a greater willingness by certain members of the medical profession to prescribe E2 outside of the bounds of the Benjamin protocol.