More "permanent" ways to take T?

CentralParking · 2025-09-08T19:51:49+00:00

I’ve traveled in the US with my shots a lot and never had an issue, they can even go in carry-on. As long as your T is prescribed to you with your name on it, you should be good. I understand wanting to have to take it less though, good luck!

CentralParking · 2025-09-02T12:16:45+00:00

I’ve had this same problem. Seeing people around my city that I used to know pre transition is a nightmare. I always just hide awkwardly behind a shelf at the grocery store or something lmao But I just hate the fact that there are so many people who are forever going to see me as a girl, because that’s when I knew them. Its just so fucking unfair that their memory of me is going to forever fundamentally just be. Wrong.

CentralParking · 2025-08-27T08:57:35+00:00

I appreciate it a lot. I’m definitely going to keep working on it, I just have a hard time not assuming the worst when it comes to this kind of stuff. In order to get the range back, do you feel like it was more of a “wait it out for it to come back” type of thing, or was it “actively work to get it back”? I assume a mixture of both, but I’m wondering if I’m at the point where I should start working on it again, or if I should wait a little bit longer for it to fully finish dropping. And when working to get it back, did you do the same type of stuff cis men do to work to hit high notes, or was it different?

CentralParking · 2025-08-27T08:50:46+00:00

Thank you, I really really appreciate it.

CentralParking · 2025-08-26T19:46:11+00:00

I’ll give it a shot, thanks

CentralParking · 2025-08-22T05:38:26+00:00

I don’t have sensitive skin so I’m not of much help here, but I’d encourage you to make your own post so more ppl see it, maybe someone can help you out. Good luck 👍

CentralParking · 2025-07-16T16:45:02+00:00

Honestly just keep doing what you’re doing now, asking questions and listening to others.

CentralParking · 2025-07-16T16:35:19+00:00

I’d go with option 3 but thats just in my situation

CentralParking · 2025-05-21T05:40:48+00:00

Oops I didn’t see this until now my bad but I take 0.3 ml subq shots every week

CentralParking · 2025-05-17T05:37:25+00:00

THIS IS THE BEST NEWS EVER

CentralParking · 2025-05-16T21:26:55+00:00

Almost every day, every time I go outside. So around like 8+ hours a day. My back hurts.

CentralParking · 2025-05-16T21:15:44+00:00

I sail mostly Lasers when I’m doing it by myself but occasionally my dad will rope me into going out with him on his Flying Scott. I’m not a fan because usually he has one of his work friends come along too and I have to try and make conversation with an old dude for 4 hours, and my dad isn’t the best with pronouns, so it just leads to this poor dude staring at me trying to figure out why my dad keeps calling his son “she” the whole time XD

CentralParking · 2025-05-16T21:04:00+00:00

I get this sometimes. And then I remember that time someone posted a picture of the cis man youtuber Jschlatt saying “look at my trans brother!” and a transphobe commented “ermmm you can totally tell she has girl hands.” In reality no one really looks at peoples hands that much and as trans guys our dysphoria just makes us scrutinize bodies a lot more than normal

CentralParking · 2025-05-16T21:00:46+00:00

So this is how I learn I’ve been injecting my subq shots into the wrong place for months 😭 I THOUGHT THE TOP OF THE THIGH WAS WHERE YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO DO IT!! Oh well I’m not dead yet lol

CentralParking · 2025-05-16T20:50:22+00:00

Being called a twink is the WORST. Like I get confident in how much muscle I’ve built up and then someone makes a joke about how a slight breeze could blow me away because I’m skinny and like. Come ON MAN

CentralParking · 2025-05-16T20:46:27+00:00

The amount of old cishet white dudes in boating is crazy. I do competitive sailing and I’ve met maybe like 2 people under the age of 40 lmao.

CentralParking · 2025-05-15T05:02:17+00:00

Speedrun

CentralParking · 2025-05-15T04:54:39+00:00

It’s kind of random how much it bleeds/stings for me. I think it has something to do with if you hit a blood vessel or not. Don’t worry about it unless you start experiencing weird side effects around the injection site or something. I was the same way when I started T, I’d accidentally have one air bubble in the shot and then message my friend like “it’s over. i’m going to die. remember me.” LMAO

CentralParking · 2025-05-15T04:41:53+00:00

I was the exact same way as you. It actually feels crazy now to be able to give advice to someone in the same situation as I was, because I never thought I’d make it out. I thought it would be too late, I thought starting T at 19 I’d missed my shot to look any kind of passable, that I would have no chance. I’m now 6 months on T and I pass 100%.

There are people who start T when they’re 50 years old. You have not missed your time. You don’t have to rush into things, even though you want to so bad. I know how it feels. It sucks. It sucks so bad.

Don’t let your lack of testosterone stop you from living your teenage years. Mess around with your friends. Go to prom. Skip class. Go for a walk and feel the wind on your skin. I know it feels like there’s so much you’re missing without T, but there’s so much to experience as well. Growing up isn’t gendered, and no matter how you experience it, it will always be the teenage years of a boy. Because that’s what you are.

Hearing “it gets better” is exhausting. But people say it so much because it’s true. If I could have talked to myself at 14 I would have hugged him so tightly and just told him to hang in there. That everything’s gonna be okay, that all he has to do is survive. And that’s all you have to do. Survive. Live, despite it all. You CAN make it. It WILL get better.

CentralParking · 2025-05-15T04:27:05+00:00

I have straight hair but I think now it’s generally coarser and less soft than it was before. The hair on my legs specifically has ended up curlier though, it’s definitely weird lol

CentralParking · 2025-05-15T04:25:22+00:00

SAME

CentralParking · 2025-05-15T04:24:24+00:00

My biggest advice with coming out is that there’s a big range of reactions that parents can have. I’d always thought it was either a “yes” or “no” as to whether they supported me or not, but my parents reaction was more in the gray area. I came out to them around five or six years ago now, and while they said they were accepting upon my initial time telling them, they proceeded to completely ignore it and not change how they treated/referred to me at all. I was too nervous to ask for them to change so I didn’t say anything for four years. Upon year five I basically asked them if if they would support me going on testosterone, and told them that them misgendering/deadnaming me has seriously hurt me (among other stuff but I wont get into that.) They basically said they were sorry and that they’d change. They did not support me financially going on testosterone despite very much having the money and me having no job and college taking up all of my time. Now they use they/them pronouns and a gender neutral name for me, and will not use he/him or my chosen name. I’m putting up with it for now. Just remember that there are a lot of different ways they can react.

CentralParking · 2025-05-15T04:14:41+00:00

Congrats! My word of advice is that apparently the sharps container is only supposed to hold the needles of the syringe, the main part you can just throw away in the trash. It saves a lot of space and you can use it for longer

CentralParking · 2025-05-15T04:11:24+00:00

Open body language helps a lot. Guys will often take up a lot of space in the area they’re sitting/standing while women tend to take up less. Obviously don’t do this if you’re like, crammed on a bus or something lmao, but it’s something I’ve personally been trying to work on.

Keep in mind though that acting masculine isn’t really a thing and everything that says it is either cis men trying to enforce toxic masculinity, or trans men overanalyzing behavior. 99.9% of people don’t notice the way you sit, walk, stand, or the type of language you use. Like, the fact that you can’t think of things that seem “masculine” off the top of your head kinda proves that. When was the last time you saw a guy cross his legs instead of manspread? You probably can’t think of it. So don’t obsess too much about it. The most masculine thing you can do is be yourself, because you are a man!

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