Good point, you got me there

Showerthought, aren’t femboys and tomgirls doing that?

Yeah, I had the same. I used to think you need to wear skirts all the time to be fem, but a therapist told me, just look at what cis women dress. Then I realised, they don’t do skirts all the time either… so I was very relieved and felt liberated. That helped me to transition.

Too well described, it felt like a constant veil of sluggishness. With the hormones, it felt like the veil was removed and I for the first time could truly feel happy, not a sort of apparent one for the outer world or myself, but a deeper, real one, feeling all warm and fuzzy and calm from inside.

I still haven’t worn skirts often sadly - I feel the ‘parts’ are in the way. And I don’t know how to tuck them effectively - I have shapewear, but that’s it. Tucking it into the body I cannot do.

Plus I feel like I don’t dare yet to go full skirty outside yet. I’m taking E and pass for many, but for myself I feel like I don’t yet – due to my jawline. I don’t know if you’ve done so yet, but how do you overcome that fear? How do people react?

Manhood can be a spectrum with all sorts of variants. What you wish to feel as is what you feel as!

Scottish men wear kilts on formal occassions, women frequently wear trousers. Lipstick or nail polish is used by men and women alike.

I personally view myself as a gal, but I generally like to dress neutrally/masculinely. Only very rarely do I go full skirty, so to say.

Transitioning can be in all sorts of ways, some transition only by dress, others only hormonally, others medically, and others do some or all of these. Some trans gals keep their dick, others want it gone.

If you’re thinking of hormones, is a pretty big thing, but it’s generally reversible up to three months. I’d recommend storing your reproduction cells (sperm/eggs), before starting. This is because hormones will make you temporarily infertile, and if used for longer (e.g. if you wanna continue), permanently. If you wanna stop to store them, you get some hormonpausal (peno-/menopausal) symptoms.

I actually offered hormones to a cis friend as a joke before, but he was like “nah, no thanks”. And that’s valid too. For me, and they helped me a lot in that I felt more home in my body - that my body was becoming more my own rather than some foreign body my spirit inhabited.

For the beard thing, for you - it depends. Most guys don’t get the capacity for a ‘full’ beard until their mid-twenties, some even take until their thirties. I don’t know where you’re at but I think you’ll be fine in that regard :p

I have hyperrealistic dreams and even experienced pregnancy while dreaming - feeling a baby kick, as if an elbow touched me from the inside. That was so euphoric, but when I woke up, I was so heartbroken 😭

I would literally commit multiple crimes if it meant I could undergo a succesful pregnancy. Even if I died, I would at least have succeeded this, and science could advance knowledge of how to improve chances for other uterus lackers.

I actually had that happen with my therapist, I refused to do so until they caved in. I wore a skirt and lipstick to appointments online, even though I’d normally not have done so. I hate having to put myself into an arbitrary box because others are narrowminded.

I wanted to do the RLE only accompanying with hormones (and even then, I felt the RLE shouldn’t be a thing and is a barrier to push for being harassed). I felt it too scary to be dressed in an affirming way while I still looked the “wrong gender for my clothes” (and I thought it’d give me harassment). Women get harassed regardless of what they dress, so I didn’t want to imagine what it would be like, appearing masc still and having to dress feminine. I want to do that at my own pace, thankyouverymuch.

I think that that’s why it’s so important to let people decide for themselves. The hormones should be over the counter and people should be able to try them out for at least a few months, with informed consent.

When I finally got the hormones, that was such BIG relief honestly. I nowadays manage to pass more and more and get gendered right, so I’m very happy about that.

Literally my development

BOOBS

Ah then it’s probably a different sign language, mine does not do it like that.

I don’t get the 258 and 84 one, also deaf.

To be fair, assuming I’d switch bodies with someone else who I’d chill with, I would all be fine with it.

I’d give them tips on my old body’s particularities, how to maintain it best and so on.

Eda from the Owl House, honestly. Adventurous, middle finger to authority, civil. Has a curse that affects her when she can get too tired or angry (but often for justice). Doesn’t give much of a fuck, literal girlboss.

Thank you for your explanation :)

So, huh, it’s then patronising basically, a sort of “brave that you did what we think you shouldn’t have done”… interesting. I always thought it was meant at face value but now that you explained, I understand there’s a further meaning behind it.

Based mrrrp :3

Depends on how safe it is and how long the recovery. And whether nerve endings will attach correctly. Imagine permanently having paralysis or a mild feeling of the funny bone being touched, or brainfreeze from too cold ice cream, except it’s everywhere in your body down from the neck? Yeah, no.

Given the immune issues, and the issues with trying to keep the brain well-oxygenated and free from diseases, I think the safer option would be surgery. It feels kinda odd to have your body no longer be your body, even if you’d then straight up have the right body. I think I could accept it, though, but still.

But if the body trade were possible without any immune issues and all that shit, then I’d def do that!

My greatest dream, greater even than being together with a partner, greater than surviving without large complications, is experiencing pregnancy and having a live baby out of it. I really want to know what it’s like first-hand, to experience the journey, feeling the baby kick. Hell, even the morning sickness, all the aches and labour pains, I’d take.

There’s actually a protocol for transfems to become pregnant, but you’d most likely only be able to carry to 33 weeks, assuming your hips aren’t widened from taking E early. Or you’d have to get C-section. That is my case either way.

33 weeks is fine, I can live with that. I then do get to experience the third trimester as well. But I think I want to keep the baby safe, therefore as far to the end as possible it is. The baby then probably couldn’t go “down”, but other than that it’d be fine. And tbh, I’d be fine with hip surgery too if it meant the baby could descend downward.

I don’t mind C-section either, lots of pregnant people do that already anyways.

There’s also a transfem gal who actually did an experiment with taking pregnancy hormones, for 10 months (yes, including post-pregnancy hormones). It was rough but omg, it read to be so affirming. She permanently went from a C to a G-cup(!), was able to help a friend out with breastfeeding, and had widened hips.

Worth it.

Yes please and sure, why not!

If you want a dick, you can have it. It’s never had any problems (other than the dysphoria and a testicular torsion that may or may not have finally kickstarted my deeper desire to transition, lmao)

Mmm yes please :3

They actually do. I’ve asked my partner to make a juice approximating its taste, and I drank it, and apparently it’s like salty warm water with a wee bit of milk in it.