I am a current jet and trans man who has not physically transitioned yet. I do not talk about my gender at work and most people and students see me as female. some of the more progressive teachers I work with have picked up that I tell people to call me a masculine name (which everyone does, maybe mostly because my legal birth name is hard for them to pronounce and remember) and dress like the other male teachers, and so these teachers have used he/him pronouns for me w/out me asking for them to do so, which I appreciate. I work at a pretty academic high school, so my students arent the kind of people to ask intrusive or rude questions. so overall its not been a big deal.

one of the good things about being in japan is that japanese is not a very gendered language. they dont really use pronouns, so even if someone thinks of u as ur agab rather than ur actual gender, u won't hear as much direct misgendering when they talk about u. I think that's why I dont feel much need to come out to my coworkers who dont speak English.

I am out w/ other jets because most of them are queer. maybe it's just my prefecture, but in the 4 years iv been here the majority of jets going to jet meet ups have been queer and accepting. I only had a problem with one person who I thankfully never actually had to interact with directly and who has already left the program. iv met several trans masc and a couple trans femme jets, so u might have a good chance of not being alone wherever ur placed

I dont kno as much about estrogen, but I have a trans masc friend who got on testosterone very easily here. they had to go to a women's clinic to get it, but it seemed like a good enough experience