Let us know if you give AAs and E a shot to see how it affects you. Honestly, would be interesting to see how cis people react to a double-blinded trial like that, both directions. Obvious problem with that being cis people not want the effects. E at least is pretty slow with long-term physical changes, but T seems to have some pretty fast acting affects from my understanding.
If you are also taking spiro, that’s a given anyways.
Have you heard of the reverse (all the transfems who talk about how much more they cry after starting E)?
Taking a look at Quest’s website, hormone tests are about $225 if you aren’t going to go through insurance. Ideally, you’d get these done every 3 months until you figure out your dosage levels. So ideally, you would budget ~$1000 for that. Also, these would still leave medical records that would clearly indicate something is up if you are worried about like worse-case scenario (and getting around that may require access to equipment with costs over $100k and would require some training? idk really know what option their are for this, but assuming something like LC-MS). Technically not strictly necessary, but there is so much variation in how people respond to doses that you pretty much have to do some testing to make sure you are in target ranges. If you manage to get an antiandrogen, those might require additional testing (ie: checking potassium levels if you are on spiro, which would ideally be done before starting)
The hormones would be far cheaper than that afaik, although you may want to get that in bulk upfront if you are concerned about the political changes limiting supplies. And I think I heard a rumor that getting antiandrogens from the grey market in the US is harder right now? So monotherapy may be the only option.
I think anyone starting HRT in the US now should consider DIY and think its probably better than nothing. But I think if I were starting again today, I’d go through informed consent again if at all possible and only switch to DIY if that became the only option. And by that point, hopefully I’d have a decent idea how dosing works for me that going a while without testing wouldn’t be a problem.
Also, if you use injections, they tell you to only use the vial for a month, but a single vial can technically last far longer (the trade-off being the more its used, the more likely there are to be contaminants - one month is sorta like a best sell-by date used by companies to cover their ass). So stockpiling is viable via non-DIY.
Maybe God is so weak even the mere existence of what is now the modern gender thought is enough to kill him centuries ahead of time.
Definitely reminds me of the straights being made insecure by the existence of LGBT+ people.
Some people do start with raws and do sterilization while mixing with the oils for doing the injection, which involves some extra equipment (although some people may already have it lying around in their kitchen). Self-injection is the norm AFAIK.
Edit: typo missing -> mixing
You could also use your stomach for subQ. There’s also a spot on your arm that could be used if you have someone else injecting for you. I alternate which thigh I use each week for E and use my stomach rotating which quadrant I inject into for an unrelated injection (that uses an autoinjector).
Skin that never gets to the point that makes me want to burn it off to stop the itch would be me first pick.
My favorite tucking underwear have been enfemme. I’ve had some for just over 3 years now and they still seem good. Obviously they’re not are tight as they were brand-new, but after the initial break-in, they pretty much have stayed the same and I can’t tell them apart from the ones I got 1 year ago.
No clue on shoes; last time I bought shoes was like 4 years ago before realizing I might not want men’s shoes and they also stopped making that version, so can’t even recommend them despite being marketed for men so I need to figure something out soon too.
https://transfemscience.org/articles/serms-transfem/
Here’s one source on SERMS to get an idea of some of the options. Wish there were better options (and maybe there are - I haven’t done any reading on them in the past year and this source is about 5 years old).
Personally, I considered them when I was thinking about trying out HRT, but I didn’t like the idea of potential long-term medical issues. Didn’t think I would want boobs, but also didn’t think I would hate having them, so I just tried out boobs via breast forms to see how I felt about those.
Some agender people reject the NB and trans label, others use it. Personally, I’ve used all three but there was a point where I specifically identified as a gender but didn’t think trans or NB were useful labels, so I rejected them even though I thought I’d technically fall under the broad definition.
For me, I was attracted to the agender label first because my basically feeling about gender was in was too autistic for gender. Before adopting the agender label, I was confused how someone who was autistic could be cis or trans. I thought gendered restrictions and norms were annoying and felt like I tended to ignore gender more than most on accident (ie: someone else pointing out that I was the only guy in a group on a couple occasions… Once when it was supposed to be girls’ turn to change on the bus… Oops). Agender people at least on reddit seem to be overwhelmingly ace.
NB is a big umbrella. It would include agender, bigender, poly gender, demigender, gender fluid, etc.
The shooter may have had a fur affinity account. At least the username matches the username used elsewhere that are allegedly his.
Unfortunately, too many are willing to hate even if they know it’s someone they supposedly claim to love.
Pretty much me lately at work. Pretty much just trying to coast off of people either oblivious to the changes or being to worried about being impolite to say anything about it. Honestly curious how many are in each camp. Everyone seems to he/him/sir me without hesitation except the person who I’m pretty sure is a chaser…
Although when someone continuously fucks it up every single time, I find it hard not to interpret it as malicious behavior.
I don’t think the alternative is necessarily malice. My mom I think at least partly misgenders trans people because she just doesn’t get why its a big deal because she doesn’t have a problem being gendered as a guy 🪺 I think sometimes its a bit out of jealousy though, which I think counts as malice.
It sucks so many people have to deal with that kind of thing. I don’t think it is just a matter of forgetting. Its a matter of not caring and they should be allowed that excuse (except for the occasional slip-up).
I’m sorry if this post is not appropriate for this community. I chose this community because transfem is what I’m most familiar with and what I feel most aligned with because I like to present more feminine.
The community was renamed from “mtf” to “transfem” shortly after the migration from reddit specifically to be more explicitly inclusive of people who don’t necessarily view themselves as female or women, but in any way identify with femininity in any way that doesn’t align with their agab. I don’t think there’s any need to worry about whether you belong.
You’re still young and learning about yourself. I thought I was technically cishet until my late 20’s, so I was wrong for far longer. Being wrong is just a step for learning. If you realize you aren’t trans, is it a big deal? Why? Because you just don’t want to be wrong? Because you want to be a gender other than your AGAB? If the latter, I think that’s a pretty good hint you might be trans of some sort.
The second paragraph is prog. I forgot to mention people often mention increase horni and improved sleep.
Some people report fairly negative reactions though.
And they probably didn’t realize they did that and only found it later thought it was an unreasonable place to put it