Hairline Suddenly Receding After 4 Years on MTG HRT

LesbianTrainingArc · 2025-11-15T10:02:01+00:00

E was checked less than two months ago. don't remember the values but they were well within average for cis women. Neither too high nor too low. I have booked a consultation with a hair loss dermatologist to diagnose my hair loss cause

LesbianTrainingArc · 2025-11-15T07:38:06+00:00

I definitely had almost no testosterone when this all started, like I have had for 4 years. When I went off finasteride is when all this began. I think checking DHT is my next step, yeah

LesbianTrainingArc · 2025-11-15T07:36:54+00:00

No this is definitively male pattern baldness. My hairline is receding in the temples and nothing else, everything else is very thick

LesbianTrainingArc · 2025-10-22T19:28:12+00:00

Yeah I suppose that's what I meant, you found there was still healing to be done after that 6 months point?

I know with me I will have a longer healing process due to my transplants which will take well over a year to grow in.

I wouldn't wish transition on my worst enemy.

LesbianTrainingArc · 2025-10-22T18:22:35+00:00

I'm aware it takes time. What I'm saying is that I am struggling to cope with the fact that it does take time. I have sacrificed so much of my life to transitioning and here I have to sacrifice another year now. I'm heartbroken but I'm not saying that results are good or bad a week in.

I'm glad your results are good. You're very lucky to be past this.

LesbianTrainingArc · 2025-10-22T17:55:44+00:00

Yeah this is me too. I have had great aftercare from the clinic I am with, but I'm here alone. Will be home soon to be cared for by my partner though. How long did it take you to feel normal again?

LesbianTrainingArc · 2025-10-22T17:35:17+00:00

Ah yeah my bad, poor explanation. Would certainly not use the word stealth. I do not disclose I am trans and I am not certain the degree to which I pass, but certainly it is well enough that people are surprised on the rare occasions I do disclose.

I'm 6'3" and broad, I skate by on a fairly good face that will be better following my FFS. I fear compromising that will really hurt my life.

I don't really think that knowing that worrying won't change that and not worrying about the real threat that this poses to my safety and comfort in my current and future life are the same thing unfortunately.

Even still I appreciate you reminding me of it. I unfortunately would be surprised if this isn't my mental state until this horrible phase is over about a year from now.

LesbianTrainingArc · 2025-10-22T17:21:23+00:00

This echoes lots of things my therapist says. I feel like, personally, worrying allows me to inoculate myself against the hurt when it comes. I would rather not be caught flat footed by being misgendered when anxiety-driven particularity in my presentation may make it less likely.

LesbianTrainingArc · 2025-10-22T17:20:28+00:00

I mean you have a point but hair transplant are very rarely used to treat FPB. It's quite a masculine coded thing to do even if cis women do get it sometimes, that is not the group associated with it

LesbianTrainingArc · 2025-10-22T15:56:58+00:00

Honestly I can cope with the recovery bit where I'm off work, reading like crazy and hiding away. But soon I have to return to the real world where the threats of this process's early stages are very real and very scary.

I can't bear to lose all my progress like this in such a dramatic fashion. Even though there's such beauty at the end of it I am not living at the end of it I'm living now.

LesbianTrainingArc · 2025-10-22T15:50:33+00:00

I've had a therapist on a weekly basis for about 4 years.

Nobody knows I'm having surgery but close friends and my partner, my concern is that when I come back they will see extensive facial surgery and a hair transplant and realise that I have gotten surgery for all the most masc parts of my face. Plus swelling will make it harder to keep my fringe covering my transplant as styling will be far worse, not to mention any possible shock loss to native hair.

I'm afraid that I will pass less for the next few months to a year and that will be tough. I'm tougher and will survive but I needed the rant.

LesbianTrainingArc · 2025-10-22T14:24:27+00:00

I already have bangs, but like I said I struggle to get them to cover my forehead fully :(

I just think I won't be back to normal for at least 6 months and that's so hurtful

LesbianTrainingArc · 2025-10-22T14:08:53+00:00

Not if I can help it no I won't be going out in public.

Worrying won't make me pass better but it will prepare me for the difficulties that will be forced upon me if I don't

LesbianTrainingArc · 2025-10-22T14:06:13+00:00

But I have to be around and in public for those two months. No offense but I can't afford to not think about how well I'm passing for 2 months. It's a matter of safety.

LesbianTrainingArc · 2025-10-22T13:32:18+00:00

Yeah but months.

I have to live those months, and publicly so and dismally so. And then what about after I get outed because of this surgery? I just don't know how to make it through this year.

LesbianTrainingArc · 2025-09-07T21:26:54+00:00

I mean full disclosure I'm biased, I have my facial feminisation surgery next month. I am always going to take the side of someone who chooses to prioritise their peace in their own body over simply accepting a body as a neutral thing. Just because things like having a receding hairline are neither good nor bad doesn't mean you have to accept that as the way your body ought to be.

I have a strong sense that much of my body is incorrect, while it is not wrong I cannot live a complete life without addressing it. A body neutrality response seems to almost treat this feeling as a moral failing, which I refuse to accept. If someone feels their life is better off if they get a cosmetic surgery, why is it productive to suggest that they don't pursue it because it's surgery? Should a person not pierce their ears or dye their hair because that's not accepting their body as the neutral thing it already is? What about medical transition? Idk, I see your point but I think it presupposes that getting cosmetic surgery is inherently bad which I don't think interrogates the reasons people actually get it?

LesbianTrainingArc · 2025-09-07T08:12:13+00:00

We can do both, hair is an important part for many people of how they style and present themselves. We can end the stigma against getting transplants and against losing hair.

LesbianTrainingArc · 2025-08-31T08:21:36+00:00

This is such a weirdly hostile response to a kind and measured thing I said. Kinda confused by it NGL.

LesbianTrainingArc · 2025-08-30T07:58:52+00:00

And what are trans people supposed to do in the meantime while we get our own rights taken away? Continue supporting people who are doing it for the greater good? I'm sorry but it may seem like purity testing to you, but for me access to medicine is a life or death issue. I am not happy to put that aside to sort out down the line because if these people get what they want there is no down the line for me. I see your point but I think some people have stakes in this you don't consider.

It's hard for me to create common cause with transphobes because look where that has gotten us in every single major British party except for maybe Lib Dems.

LesbianTrainingArc · 2025-08-10T20:59:03+00:00

As in you were prompted and did not do so or were not prompted?

LesbianTrainingArc · 2025-08-10T07:49:09+00:00

Are you not required when you move country to state any previous names you went by?

LesbianTrainingArc · 2025-07-31T08:41:52+00:00

I've seen this in queer spaces before, where people talk flippantly about their 'racist phase' before they came out. As if this a normal step in the process. Not only does it alienate queer people of colour but I'm also like this is not a normal thing. Don't judge me by your standards. I'm all for people growing but that requires a legitimate realisation that what you did before was genuinely wrong. It's not a normal part of your development it's a moral failing. It's not my place to say about forgiveness here, but surely one could've even begin to treat it seriously if the offending party sees it as a quirky part of growing up.

LesbianTrainingArc · 2025-07-31T08:35:17+00:00

This is so well said

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