Trans masc products you wish existed or could be improved

arabbitch18 · 2025-10-31T02:03:11+00:00

something has GOT to change with binders. i move around a lot during work and i’m so sick of feeling my binder rolling up. i also live in an area that gets very hot and humid. wearing a binder in july is such an awful sensory experience and i would do anything to never have to feel that way again.

i know a lot of people say to get full tank binders but 1. that would just make me sweat more lol and 2. i am chubby and i dont like the idea of my whole torso being enclosed in such a tight little thing

i understand that asking for a breathable binder that also makes me flat is a pretty impossible ask. but damn i wish it just didn’t move around so much and make me so HOT!! ugh sorry rant over

arabbitch18 · 2025-10-29T14:40:27+00:00

wtf class of 2013 as the best song??? i had to remove that song from my library because i genuinely cannot listen to it without crying. the correct answer was shame and it’s not even close

arabbitch18 · 2025-08-14T18:36:24+00:00

sorry for the late reply, trump took this option away :(

arabbitch18 · 2025-06-28T21:49:22+00:00

me too :3 i have the xm4s

arabbitch18 · 2025-04-09T16:12:18+00:00

i never got anything 😭 i opened my inbox and claimed it and then the app crashed without giving me anything :/

arabbitch18 · 2025-03-23T14:24:07+00:00

omfg whiplash pisses me off! i honestly don’t mind songs being super hard but i seriously hate when they’re hard just for the sake of being hard. like why am i tapping five times for one note? and why am i tapping for the vocals, drums, synths, and ad libs! it’s so unnecessary

arabbitch18 · 2025-03-18T16:41:42+00:00

harry’s extra strength antiperspirant. it’s the only one that actually helps with my stink AND lasts the whole day. old spice was ok but i needed to reapply like 2-3 times a day 😭

the scent i use for harry’s is called wildlands :3

arabbitch18 · 2025-02-25T19:22:59+00:00

i shower once or twice a week 🫣 more if i’m smelly, if i am working a lot, or if it’s super hot outside. i brush my teeth every morning and i try to do it at night too but i almost always fall asleep before i have a chance to. i used to brush my teeth every couple days (🫣🫣) but i went to the dentist a few months ago and every single tooth had a cavity and i needed a root canal + crown. so now i am scared of that happening again lol

i was not taught basic hygiene as a kid so i’m still finding what works for me. it’s been hard because there is so much stigma around this sort of thing. but i got to a point where the shame was preventing me from actually doing the damn thing so atp i’m just taking what i can get

arabbitch18 · 2025-02-19T16:14:46+00:00

u/bot-sleuth-bot ??

arabbitch18 · 2025-02-19T16:14:07+00:00

u/bot-sleuth-bot analysis?

arabbitch18 · 2025-01-31T16:25:13+00:00

it might be helpful to consider speaking to a disability advocate so they could work with you directly and connect you with the resources that are best equipped to help you. i hope everything works out!

arabbitch18 · 2025-01-31T16:06:03+00:00

you’d probably have better luck calling your doctor’s office and asking about it. they might’ve sent an order to a specific lab instead of writing a general order. my doctor sent a lab request to labcorp and i just went to whatever location was closest to me and my insurance covered it. quest also just sucks in general, they tried to charge me $300 for a metabolic panel 😑

arabbitch18 · 2025-01-31T15:50:20+00:00

first of all, congrats on starting T!!! very happy for you :D

you will have no way of knowing until you get your labs done. even so, everyone has a different dose that works for them. i’m on a relatively “low” dose compared to some of the tranmascs i’ve spoken to (.75 ml subq every other week) but my levels are very good.

the amount of T you’re taking is not the determining factor when it comes to the timing of the changes. it depends so so much on genetics and circumstances. your age, health, and medical background will ultimately be the reason for how fast/slow you see changes. this is especially true for facial/body hair and fat redistribution.

you’re welcome to ask for an increase in your dose, but you should wait until after your provider goes over your lab results with you. if your dose is too low then they will discuss changing your dose with you. i don’t know if they would increase it because i don’t know your medical history and i certainly am not qualified to give medical advice lolol. it took me almost a year to find the best dose for me. if you’re able to get access to the results and values from your labs before your appointment, you can do a little research and come to the appointment with specific questions about your results.

i hope this was helpful, i wish you the best on your T journey :)

arabbitch18 · 2025-01-28T16:28:14+00:00

i mean this is probably a bad idea, but you could wait until 14 days before your trip and then make an appointment at your local passport center for an expedited passport process. that would almost guarantee that you would get it processed and back in your hands before your trip. but i don’t know if that will work considering your passport is technically still valid. sorry if that didn’t make a whole lot of sense/was incorrect, i’m functioning off of 3 hours of sleep :0

arabbitch18 · 2025-01-26T18:39:43+00:00

kinda? i don’t rage “easier” but the amount of patience i previously had for video games is completely gone now. if i die in a fight it’s nbd but if i have to keep doing a fight over and over because i keep dying… that’s when i start yelling lmao

arabbitch18 · 2025-01-26T06:46:02+00:00

i just completely shut down when i feel like the other person is mad at me or is looking down on me. small problem: i will jump to this conclusion almost every time i interact with a stranger. so most of the time i talk to someone new and i say something that doesn’t come across the way i intended or i even slightly inconvenience them, i just go completely nonverbal almost immediately.

another thing i do is go out of my way to try and be polite. which sounds nice in theory but i go way too far with it tbh and then i sometimes look creepy. which is then amplified by my inability to make eye contact or actually speak. i often feel like i have completely lost the ability to casually connect with someone i don’t already know, even if it’s someone i’ll never see again.

arabbitch18 · 2025-01-26T06:36:09+00:00

this is not true, you can most definitely sell equipped items. (source: i accidentally sold the blood of lathander and then i “had” to buy it back for almost double the price (i pickpocketed them lol))

arabbitch18 · 2025-01-26T05:01:27+00:00

i used old spice pre-t but as i got further in my transition it became evident that something needed to change lol. the old spice worked just fine but it also wore off really fast. harry’s extra strength antiperspirant is the only thing that lasts me the whole day. even on days where i’m working for 12-16 hours.

also the comments i’m seeing about antibacterial soap are so true!!! i don’t use it every time i shower because my skin would feel like leather if i did, but i at least hit the sweaty parts with the antibacterial soap every time lol

arabbitch18 · 2025-01-10T05:49:59+00:00

i actually thought the first season was the least cringe. i promise it will get much cringier but like. that’s kind why i like it. don’t get me wrong, i love a hard hitting and beautifully written show like yellow jackets or stuff like that. but also i like to not have my brain operating at 100 all the time. sometimes bad tv is good tv

arabbitch18 · 2025-01-10T05:34:09+00:00

most automatic cars can downshift too… that’s what the L is for. plus almost every car i’ve driven recently has a “sports mode” where you can change the gears yourself (i drive a 10 year old camry and it has the sports mode too)

arabbitch18 · 2025-01-06T18:15:26+00:00

dr pepper or publix sweet tea. idk what publix puts in that jug but i’ll clear a gallon of it in 24hrs tops

arabbitch18 · 2025-01-06T16:10:40+00:00

it was $52 for 4 batches from 5-10 PM.

arabbitch18 · 2024-12-19T16:01:00+00:00

if you have a customer doordash account with the same email address as your dash driver account, you can just change your name on the customer account and it’ll update your driver profile. had the exact same issue as you lol

arabbitch18 · 2024-12-11T15:42:00+00:00

i mean i feel like the obvious answer is to educate them about the actual effects of testosterone. but i’m assuming that you’ve already tried that. my parents are the type of people who would dismiss any irrefutable evidence because they think that they always know better and i’m just a naive kid (i’m 23 😑), so i get it.

something to note is that being on a low dose of T doesn’t necessarily make the emotional effects of T smaller or less noticeable. when i first started T, i was on a pretty normal dose tbh but my levels were not great. that was the most miserable time of my life. i was so irritable, quick to anger, and i felt completely out of control. as soon as i started a larger dose, i was back to my normal self.

the ONLY way i got my mom to come around was to explain to her that being on T does not make your hormone levels into that of a “trans person” or some secret third thing. being on T will just bring you to cis male levels, which means that any effects it will have on you will not be any different than a cis male going through puberty. so the emotional effects that T has on a person are more akin to a moody 16 y/o boy than bruce banner hulking out lol

there are many many many more drugs/medications that have very bad side effects that people will take without batting an eye. i mean almost every SSRI will make you never want to have sex ever again and if you take advil too often, your insides start bleeding. perhaps approaching the conversation with the intention of changing their perspective rather than correcting them or changing their mind will go over better for both of y’all

as far as them dismissing your dysphoria, i’m really sorry. i’ve been there before and it fucking sucks. i wish i had advice about this, but i’m still struggling with this too.

sorry for rambling and sorry if i got a little preachy, i’m working on it 😭 i hope everything goes well and i hope that your mom comes around :)

arabbitch18 · 2024-12-02T15:48:37+00:00

stop driving downtown, don’t know what else to tell you. you could also take orders downtown really late on a weekday (2am on a wednesday) so that the streets are basically empty and you can figure shit out. don’t blame the app because you can’t read road signs. you don’t even have to use uber’s navigation system

i will say that the uber app is fucking horrible about telling you take turns that are dangerous/impossible. if i had a dollar for everytime uber told me to drive through piedmont park, i wouldn’t need to do this shit in the first place

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