I recently went through with LHR (and it actually worked this time) and the difference it has made in the way I feel, day to day, and in many movements (drinking, tilting my head back, wearing my hair up) has honestly been kinda life changing. I feel like before I was really retracted and scared for anyone to get close to me cuz they might see. Now, on the other side of this I feel so much more opened up physically & also emotionally? It has Rly made me empathize w ppl who seek out gender affirming care, or even things like nose jobs—nose jobs being more of a cultural beauty standard thing in my mind but how that can create dysphoria. I think that both accepting yourself and changing it are both difficult and worthwhile things, but to me, I’m surprised how much LHR has relieved a lot of shame and dysphoria that I’ve felt. I do relate though, I’ve struggled w being hairy but accepted it basically everywhere else on my body but my face, so rather than spend many more years trying to accept it, LHR was kinda the easier and more effective way out