Why is the knowledge that they were the other gender painful for trans people? Like, they are not now, but that was who they were before.
Tons I don't understand about gender dysphoria, like I understand there might be genetic/hormonal reasons why someone feels uncomfortable with their apparent gender? Or the other gender fits them more and they feel wrong.
Anyway, literally can't imagine feeling wrong about whatever gender I'm born with, since I would 100% be convinced by my parents to be whatever they think I should be, I only contemplated it later. Like, should I even be a guy? Then I shrugged, didn't find anything much.
I asked some trans and non-binary people, and their explanations and terminology was quite helpful and interesting.
Because many of us don't view ourselves as having ever been the other gender. I was never male, but I was strongly encouraged by society to present and act as though I was so I did. It’s not “painful” it’s incorrect and a frustrating assumption.
It makes it sound like I either chose to switch, or something happened that switched me. Neither are true. I have ALWAYS been female, I just didn’t allow myself to show that to anyone outwardly until I transitioned.
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"It's not magic. It's just chemistry."
who knows, but I'm not gonna stop you :3
Wtf, you unironically used femoid and didn't get downvoted to hell.
Because it just looks weird and I couldn't even tell if it was men at as misogyni or something I am not getting
eh, words are made up, you can just assign any meaning to them that you like
If I knew then what I know now I would have been able to start DiY with farm supplies
Also hilariously, you can buy estrogen from chewy dot com.
…huh.
well if they ever crack down on DIY sources i’ll know where to look, but tbh 1mg seems really low 😅
i guess you could take more pills to compensate but your liver’s not gonna like that
Sadly it requires a prescription, but maybe you can find a really cool pharmacist that'll prescribe them to your puppygirl lol.
They have 2mg too, in 1/30/60/90 counts. It's literally the same generic estradiol at the human pharmacy 😁
Ngl, if you could do that at a switch of a button, I'd do it out of sheer curiosity if there were no consequences, and you could switch back.
Honestly when i first heard of HRT i thought it would also mutate my body into having a painless bottom surgery
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Why is the knowledge that they were the other gender painful for trans people? Like, they are not now, but that was who they were before.
Tons I don't understand about gender dysphoria, like I understand there might be genetic/hormonal reasons why someone feels uncomfortable with their apparent gender? Or the other gender fits them more and they feel wrong.
Anyway, literally can't imagine feeling wrong about whatever gender I'm born with, since I would 100% be convinced by my parents to be whatever they think I should be, I only contemplated it later. Like, should I even be a guy? Then I shrugged, didn't find anything much.
I asked some trans and non-binary people, and their explanations and terminology was quite helpful and interesting.
Because many of us don't view ourselves as having ever been the other gender. I was never male, but I was strongly encouraged by society to present and act as though I was so I did. It’s not “painful” it’s incorrect and a frustrating assumption.
It makes it sound like I either chose to switch, or something happened that switched me. Neither are true. I have ALWAYS been female, I just didn’t allow myself to show that to anyone outwardly until I transitioned.