Hey! Happy pride everyone! Who wants to know how much it costs to become a cute anime girl?

I'm coming up on two years since I started my transition, and I have SRS scheduled for just over the anniversary mark. Just for fun I tallied up everything I've spent so far on medical transition. This includes estimates for the next few months, up to and including surgery. All prices are in Japanese Yen.

I think I'm pretty much done with electrolysis, although I expect there will be a long tail tidying up. None of this is covered by insurance (with a long and stupid footnote I can go into another time), but it is at least tax deductible. Going forward, HRT will cost about ¥8,000 per month, reduced by 70% once I can change my legal gender and can start using insurance.

Notably this does not include:

• travel costs (substantial in my case since I live way out in the countryside)
• clothes
• cosmetics
• hitting up other girls in lesbian bars

Of course how much it costs depends a lot on what route you choose to take, so this is very much only a guideline! Let me know if you have any questions <3

It's not a thing, but it should be. We could go to karaoke.

I put the frames together into a single image for Lemmy's sake. Originally from exaheva.

This one just broke me...

Transcription:

1. In a parallel universe, I'm a cis girl.
2. I live a normal life. I love to party, I love to sing. I love to meet people.
3. In this universe, I don't think about gender stuff and all. I don't think about all this, really.
4. I shave my legs sometimes, and only rarely my armpits. Because I'm a feminist.
5. I dated guys, it didn't always go well, it's normal. Now, I think I'm bi. But I'm not really experienced with girls.
6. Had some one-night stands with dudes I met on Tinder. I don't remember their names.
7. I once wondered what it would be like to be a man and thought it would be cool to walk the streets alone at night, unafraid. But the idea of being a man also disgusts me.
8. I think I'm not really pretty (bc of my nose) but I feel OK with makeup on, and I know that some people finds me attractive so...... yeah...
9. I once met a trans girl, she was trying her best. I told her she was valid, there's a lot of different body types and stuff, she smiled a little, I think, but she didn't talk to me much.
10. Guess she's discovering it's not easy being a girl. Or maybe she prefers to stay with other trans girls. I don't know.
11. She was a bit weird anyway, not very friendly. Is it okay to say that?
12. Anyway what was I saying?
13. And regarding the future... I have a lot of projects. I'm saving money to go to Japan. I still don't know if I'll have a baby one day though.
14. When I think of all this, the future... the past and all... I think I loved my life so far! I have no regrets.
15. In a parallel universe, I'm a cis girl. And I never think about parallel universes.

Some things from me:

• Early on, darkening of the perineal raphe was quite a surprise (aka the "sack stripe"). It's not something I've seen mentioned in most HRT guides.
• How incredibly unreliable my own perception of how feminine I look is. People were treating me as a woman well before I could see even hints of it in my face.
• It's nice that women will sit next to me on the train now. As the carriage fills up I quite often find myself in the center of a cluster of women, which is very affirming.
• Makeup areas in bathrooms. I had no idea this was a thing, and they're great!

It's Friday night in Nichōme, and there are bars to hop!

I think I look pretty good in this one. Starting to get used to seeing myself as a woman, anyway <3

It took a few tries to figure out a good technique, but I'm reasonably happy with how they turned out. They look OK from a distance, anyway.

It's nice, but it's a pain to set so I mostly just have it in a ponytail. Plus it takes forever to grow out.

It'll put something on your chest, but it probably isn't hair.

(This is a joke: don't actually eat estradiol gel)