Hey #trans peeps who are on HRT, I have a theory about our community in the Fedi. It seems to me that most of us are either what I call "Pandemic Boys and Girls" who started their transition during lockdown, or those of us who seem to be a few months in. I'm in that second group. It's like the pandemic started us off, but we didn't quite get there for some reason until recently. So let's do a little poll.
How long have you been on #HRT, or alternatively how long since your definitive egg crack?
Today, after 2 weeks on Estrogel, 8 x 1.25mg pumps daily (to forearms)
Serum oestradiol (E): 2,900 pmol/L 😮
Serum testosterone (T): 0.7 nmol/L
T levels are perfect
E levels seem seriously high for the dosages - maybe I have some weird natural affinity for processing estrogen? 😉 ... but even me, I'm going to have to simply agree when my GP says we need to cut the dose down a bit
You've probably heard from transphobes about how "you can't change your DNA," so nothing you do in transition really matters. "Basic biology," they whinge. Well... what about intermediate biology?
This week on #StainedGlassWoman, come and see How HRT Rewrites Your DNA by just plain turning off the parts you don't need and turning on the ones you do! Now with more wedding photos, from another queer wedding.
Rain has made the light terrible til now, but I spent all of yesterday afternoon sewing and made my son a Dopp kit for all of the testosterone shot stuff.
There's a lot of stuff and I wanted them to have a nice way to lug it around. I ordered some small sharps shuttles too so they can keep one in there.
It's been so nice getting back sewing again. There's a real zen to it.
Bag is real leather, with a bee print on the inside cuz son is NBeeeeeee hehe.
Do any of you have any furstrations about HRT that aren't so much things that'll cause issues with transitioning but that are pet peeves anyway :neko_question:
Mine is that I can't ever get my 4 estrogen patches to be symmetrical :axolotl_cry: :zerotwo_dead:
And then I can still see the marks for like 4 days after I take that set of patches off :blobhaj_sad:
The first RCT trial for immediate access to HRT--testosterone to transmascs--has published its findings. In it, 52% of those given immediate access to testosterone had an IMMEDIATE CESSATION of their previously-present suicidal ideation, compared to 5% of those given a placebo. A treatment being ten times more effective than placebo is pretty much as decisive as it gets.
Just got my latest bloodwork results and am just incredibly frustrated >.< After injecting 4 mg of Estradiol Enanthate into my thigh muscles once a week for a month, my estradiol levels come down to...
35 pg/ml, aka perfectly average cis male levels. Not even slightly elevated. When, according to the calculator over at transfemscience.org, it should hover around the 250 pg/ml mark.
In honor of 9 months of feminizing #HRT I am sharing photos of the dangers of taking powerful psychoactive substances like Estrogen, which can also affect your body. Here’s a comparison of what I used to look like and what I look like now. You have been warned! #trans#transtimeline
felt ok with myself today so I took some selfies :3
I can't believe it's my 6th month on hrt, it feels like this is how I always have been. I used to be ok with old pics of myself but I can't stand to look at any pre hrt photos now lol #hrt#trans#transfem#selfie#lgbtq
Having a rough time with #HRT meds. Who’d be female eh? Gift that keeps giving, I’ve not been one of the lucky ones throughout my years. Can’t wait till it’s all over and done with. Guess I’ll be an insomniac then though!
I normally don't like doing this at all, but when I made the payment for the #DIYHRT shipment, my bank account comes up short and there's not enough money to pay my insurance this month. Insurance that I will need for appointments and paying for #HRT the legit way in the future.
So below is my venmo account for anyone who wants to donate to help me fund my insurance payments for this month. I was originally thinking "This isn't as severe as helping trans women move to a less-hostile environment," but then I realized that that was impostor syndrome talking. And that if you need help, you need help.
To anyone that will say "Get a job," I'm working on it via talking with job coaches. The process is slow, but steady. Hopefully, I will not have to do this again.
I don't mean to be alarmist, but I keep seeing this misinformation everywhere, including from okay outlets like #NPR : There are NO!!!! exceptions to the FULL BAN on ALL transition medical care in Missouri that will take effect on Thursday April 27.
It doesn't matter if you've taken HRT for decades, have no sex organs anymore, or have additional medical reasons to take HRT. Your doctor will not be allowed to prescribe medication or surgery to treat gender dysphoria. There are requirements in the "emergency rule" that claim to allow you to continue HRT if you meet them...
BUT THERE IS NO WAY TO MEET THOSE REQUIREMENTS. How can you "resolve" autism, anxiety, depression, personality disorders?
can some #trans#transfem people help out, is my estrogen like crazy high or is the fact that they upped my dosage at the same time I got this blood test taken fine?
The results were 436 pg/ml. They did not give me any frame of reference for this number… #HRT#estrogen#diyhrt
Is it typically when ones low on E energy levels drop quite hard?
My implants where due about a week ago but been trying to work another doc to do them.
So I am likely lower than normally and I feel so fucking tired and terrible... This is expected? I guess there isn't much I can do until I get things going again?
Google has removed two websites providing “DIY” hormone replacement therapy used in gender-affirming care from search results at the request of the UK government, according to legal letters viewed by 404 Media (@404mediaco).
Gender Incongruence: "Before 2013, the situation was even worse because people were then diagnosed with a clearly defined mental illness know as gender identity disorder. Yes indeed to qualify for hormone therapy you had to be certified by a psychiatrist as having a mental health problem. But how can affirming your own personal identity be a disease? Who is really suffering the dysphoria? Is it the client or is it the mental health professional, desperately trying to defend society's need to minimize the extent of gender diversity?"
... an extract from "A Guide To Transgender Health" (2019) by Rachel Ann Heath PhD (@Playcontra :heart_trans: on the birdsite) and Katie Wynn PhD, FRACP
I'm feeling cheated over here, I’ve been a week on HRT and my boobs are nowhere to be seen... 😁
In all seriousness, I am curious: what was the first effect you girls felt from HRT, physical or mental, and how long did it take for you to feel it? And what was something that happened early on that surprised you, some effect that you weren't expecting or prepared for?
The #transition will start and #HRT will be allowed to do its magic. I am fully willing to keep a daily photo timeline of how my body will change. Hell, I'm also willing to photograph the pace of my breast development. Unsure if I'll post the NSFW stuff here, but I'll surely CW it if I do.
Transfemme Mastodon has been a giant love-fest of nothing but support from the moment I set foot here. Even the radical politics are borne of a sense of self-preservation and righteousness.
I love this place. And considering my egg cracked only two weeks ago in an explosive mess, I have never been more sure of who I am than in this moment. Transfemme Mastodon has only affirmed that.
I eagerly await to start #HRT in the next few weeks and have my body coccoon into a wonderful, feminine butterfly.
So, what except for the possibility of breaking the disinfection chain makes squeezing the oily substance out of a couple of #progesterone soft capsules into a syringe and administering it to oneself as an intramuscular injection, because I just did?
Anyone who followed the now dismissed UK General Medical Council (GMC) case against Helen, who set up @GenderGP (the only Informed Consent available in the UK, via an offshore model) in detail will know what an arduous sh*t-flinging exercise that was. Only respect ... :heart_trans:
"Doctor who gave puberty blockers to children nominated for ITV-backed diversity award. Helen Webberley has been put forward as a positive role LGBT role model in face of trans row criticism"
UK Telegraph, so typical transphobic dogwhistles and nonsense. But regardless: https://archive.li/uG4w8
Woohoo! My first #progesterone Rx arrived this morning. I imagine tonight might be interesting. First time in almost 13 years of GAHT that I'll have prog.
Debating oral vs anal (boofing) administration. I've seen the anecdata indicating boofing is much more effective. And I really would like to see some movement toward Tanner stage 4. After all this time, I'm still in Tanner 3. 🤷♀️