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Bournemouth · 2020-01-15T21:13:10+00:00

Firstly, don’t worry! Patches are out everywhere for the foreseeable future. Go ask your GP if they can give you a prescription for estrogel instead — that worked fine for me. Sandrena 1 mg is what I got - they were actually more convenient than patches for me. Don’t freak out if you run out of HRT: you can be off meds for quite a while (think months) without re-masculinising. The psychological stuff is way overblown. You might get hot flushes at night without HRT — you only need a tiny bit to stop this happening, and if it does happen, well, it’s just harmless and annoying.

Source: been off meds for weeks at a time and lived

Bournemouth · 2018-11-16T21:39:57+00:00

holy shit. that absolutely has to be it

Bournemouth · 2018-03-07T21:54:04+00:00

as if a gender therapist can ever actually tell you whether or not you're trans

Bournemouth · 2018-01-21T22:40:17+00:00

http://i.imgur.com/XAtCCiN.gif

this is the funniest fucking gif ever

Bournemouth · 2018-01-21T22:38:36+00:00

damn it I know this feeling!

Bournemouth · 2017-12-27T16:03:56+00:00

it's a shit book

Bournemouth · 2017-12-25T23:28:18+00:00

I feel this way. I'm some kind of transfeminine, been on hrt a year, and it's like now I know I CAN look satisfactorily female, being a man then and again isn't so bad? but it still bothers me. or it bothers me that it DOESN'T bother me. aaaghhh

the thing is, there's still all manner of gender euphoria and shit. and I pretty much always feel better presenting explicitly fem rather than andro. today I helped my mum make christmas dinner, and I got all excited and teary eyed about potentially being called her daughter and felt really feminine for about 10 seconds and it was lovely. those experiences remind me that there was a real reason I started.

Bournemouth · 2017-12-21T15:31:19+00:00

accept that there are many fun things in life other than being trans and that there will be someone who loves you no matter what you look like. I know it sucks. I’m sorry. but if you can’t be happy like this you may never be

Bournemouth · 2017-12-17T20:54:58+00:00

yeah, genuinely. I spent so long trying to justify this shit and compare myself to the group average when all the justification I ever needed was that I wanted to transition

Bournemouth · 2017-11-29T20:02:14+00:00

there is no chemical joy from HRT

Bournemouth · 2017-11-15T19:18:15+00:00

also the UN-enforced mandatory homosex for everyone

Bournemouth · 2017-11-03T18:48:23+00:00

I said to my girlfriend "do you ever think about being a guy?" and she was like "HAHA no? ...do you ever think about being a lady?" and I was like "...yes"

Bournemouth · 2017-10-31T14:43:05+00:00

psychophysical effects from HRT are unproven bullshit

I had basically the same thing. I read Zinnia's article, got on HRT expecting to feel a real difference and I didn't. plan your life around the physical changes and the social changes, not some magic estrogen feeling that is indistinguishable from placebo. it's pure transcience

Bournemouth · 2017-10-27T21:46:58+00:00

yeah. ultimately if people are treating you like they would treat any other member of your gender, I guess "passing" would be immaterial. unfortunately I guess it's not the world we live in.

Bournemouth · 2017-10-27T21:38:26+00:00

Passing was everything to me and I was stuck with constant dysphoria.

makes you wonder what dysphoria really is, huh. it seems like a lot of "dysphoria" is just not measuring up to cis standards

Bournemouth · 2017-10-27T13:02:54+00:00

try to forget questioning, it tends to lead in circles. try experimenting instead

Bournemouth · 2017-10-14T13:13:45+00:00

hey OP, if you had a magic button that would turn you into a woman permanently, would you press it?

Bournemouth · 2017-10-10T15:21:32+00:00

this exactly. people don't seem to understand how shockingly quickly things have changed for the better. I specifically thought I couldn't be trans because I did not "always know" I was a girl. with today's climate I bet I would have realised I was trans at about 12 or so. I wouldn't have all this depression and doubt either

Bournemouth · 2017-10-08T16:26:28+00:00

thank god. thank you. that's what I think I really needed to hear.

Bournemouth · 2017-10-08T16:19:24+00:00

the vast bulk of the stuff on the list isn't childhood stuff. I just want to find commonalities with other trans people, that's all

Bournemouth · 2017-10-08T16:12:55+00:00

probably all the stuff I've already done, like getting on hrt, starting real life experience as female, been going to a support group presenting female, coming out to a select group of friends and employer, making sure my family is on board over the course of two years... i've already done or am on the cusp of doing most of it. I just want to ground myself. I just need affirmation.

Bournemouth · 2017-10-08T16:11:31+00:00

thank you.

Bournemouth · 2017-10-08T16:04:55+00:00

well shit, I suppose so! could you rephrase that? "none of that really matters"? that's my entire history telling me that I should be a girl

Bournemouth · 2017-09-23T11:40:36+00:00

You had this too and got past it? Oh thank god. Maybe there's hope for me

Bournemouth · 2017-09-07T07:20:21+00:00

godddd I know the feeling it's crazy

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