Yes this was a real post, and yes she did apparently figure things out
Had an epidemiology professor who said all dudes should get a monthly dose of estrogen if only for its heart protectant properties. Dude was adjunct at my university, but was tenored at fucking Harvard.
I thought the timeline was:
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Admit to yourself that you’re trans
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HRT
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become the woman you always wanted to be
Not:
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Start HRT
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grow a beautiful pair of tits
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still cis tho
Step 1 is really hard sometimes. Going ahead to step 2 can be helpful for finishing step 1. Also, just because you’re trans doesn’t mean you want to be a woman. So you can finish step 1 and admit you are some flavor of trans, but still not know what your end-goals are or if HRT will help you get there and choose to start HRT as a way of figuring out.
Yeah… my looks like:
- start crossdressing
- start HRT
- admit I am trans
- pause HRT
- find out what kind of trans I am
- research how to achieve my impossible goals Step 5 repeats with step 6
My gender is on a non-binary spectrum and I hate it. I wish I would be cis/trans man/woman. I am planning on lowering my T a bit and I am considering to come in peace with breasts and bind. Or who knows. Maybe I will grow to like the things I’ve disliked as my self expression progresses.
This would have been so much easier if my country legally believed in existence of enbies and gave me raloxifene.
As someone with kleinfelters syndrome, don’t lower the T too much, it’s very important. I didn’t find out what I was until later in life and the addition of testosterone has made life better in every way. I got insulin resistance along the way and being fat was a good way to hide the breasts. Since starting estrogen blockers they’ve reduced in size a bit and that’s been nice.
Did you develop breast buds? I like mine but if they grow just from lower T (or me low dosing E) I am considering getting them removed. I am kind of thin? Well healthy BMI. I need to find out how much fat/water will go into my chest and this is so hard to find.
I don’t have buds, I have actual breast tissue. Like I said I’m a big guy so they blend in quite well. But I’ve seen some XXY guys who have very large breasts. My body doesn’t produce T at all. When I was tired all the time my doctor sent me in to get my T tested, it barely registered on the lab work. My body does however produce ample amounts of estrogen, which is why I have to take estrogen blockers so my body will not immediately convert the available T into estrogen.
As much as “still cis tho” meme is funny, I think the problem is the HRT (or GAHT) accessibility; it shouldn’t be allowed without consultation
Someone taking it who is benefiting from taking it results in you thinking we need to increase restrictions in the clear market?
Current regret rates are already rediculously low already, (~1%) so I don’t think having too much accessibility is a problem. Excess consultation is more often used to keep people from having any access at all and swallow people up in bureaucracy.
Hard disagree. While I understand why you say that, you have to see the problems with it not being available on the black/grey market. GAHT is completely illegal in a lot of countries, and a number of others (like mine) will only prescribe it after you’ve been living out for an extended length of time (two years for example). In a lot of places that’s just plain dangerous, and singles you out as a target for violence.
Also where I live I would never be able to get a diagnosis and prescription here because of past mental health problems and neurodivergence. Yes there are private options, but not everyone can afford that.
Also even if you can afford it or get a diagnosis on the national healthcare system. Recent events in the USA have shown that medical records aren’t as private as you’d like them to be. You’d be more than justified in wanting to keep it as private as possible.
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It’s real shocking how long some folks keep denying the possibility of being trans. I see that kind of posts all the time.
Similar post in terms of sexuality is “I found some man attractive”, “I just like the D, not man” but always puts “but I’m not gay” at the end.
Internalized phobia is real. SMH
I learned from the best at being in denial! Still would prefer people being in denial like this and get the treatment they want even if they have to justify it in weird ways. Its easier to think something like “I want to switch hormones” than it is to answer abstract questions like “what is a gender and what is mine if I have one?”
You’re telling me, I figured myself out at age 11 and immediately went into denial for 25 years. XD
Omg that’s a long time. Hope things are better foe u after coming out. I was in denial for a few years as well. I identified myself more close to “crossdressor”, not trans woman. Talking to therapist regarding my gender helped a lot to crack an egg
Absolutely. Life got more complicated after I accepted my weird enby self, but it’s been good. Much less pressure to conform to ill-fitting stereotypes. =D
Isn’t it wild that our bodies all include the instructions for either direction on the spectrum, but just require the right signal molecules?
Just like pokemon games
Been on e and spiro for a couple years, just did ffs, still cis tho!
Lmao, nah I’m trans af fam.
The hip new party drug
