I started getting grey hairs at 14. I actually like the way they look

Euler had that riz

I really hope I’m a girl, I don’t really understand why I worry about that sometimes.

This can also be a type of dysphoria. Like, it’s literally worrying about the possibility of not being a girl. It happens to me sometimes too

Absolutely! You have to take a lot though, more than you’d take otherwise and typically more than you can take with oral I think so most people who do it do injections, but it definitely does work

Yeah they’re really lacking, but we do know that estrogen blocks testosterone production. In fact, a lot of people just take a high dose of estrogen and no antiandrogen and the estrogen is enough to suppress their testosterone levels. It’s called estradiol monotherapy

I think in this case it’s because the surgery was developed in america (I think) so all the surgeons are american, and american surgeons are just really expensive in general unless you have insurance, and of course no one outside the states has american insurance (see Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, chapter 1 “Concentration of Pussy and Surgeons”)

Yeah I remember I didn’t really understand the difference between being intersex and being trans (actually, the first time I saw trans women in porn, I remember thinking “huh, I guess some women are just born like that”. And as it turns out…) like I had this vague awareness that intersex people and cross-dressers were a thing, but I wasn’t intersex (as far as I know) and the idea of being a guy who cross-dresses didn’t appeal to me, plus I thought I wouldn’t look good in it (the “I will never pass” brainworms got to me as a fucking 8 year old —.— ). But the idea of being trans, that you could actually choose your gender and take hormones to change your body and stuff, wasn’t something I was aware of. I actually remember being kind of surprised when I started puberty because I had such a strong conviction that I wasn’t like the other boys that I just assumed puberty wouldn’t affect me somehow. Like, I knew better, but I was still disappointed when it happened.

When I saw ace ventura I thought the trans character was just wearing a disguise, like a scooby-doo villain

It’s a cool surgery but unfortunately if you don’t live in the states and have insurance with a surgeon in-network it’s an insane amount of money

Like all those warnings you hear about how hrt can cause erectile dysfunction and I’m just like “I was promised it wouldn’t work anymore”

Whatever ape that decided to stop climbing trees and start walking upright really fucked things up

Switching to cypro completely fixed the dizziness I felt on spiro. I wouldn’t worry about the brain tumours. Like you said, they’re benign (not ok per se but they won’t kill you) and they only happen on larger doses. Cypro is mostly used with cis men with prostate cancer who usually take 50mg to 150mg per day, so most of the risks associated with cypro are for those doses. But if have even a small amount of estrogen then cypro is much more effective because the estrogen also reduces your testosterone, so for trans women 12.5mg is almost always enough to reduce your testosterone to cis female levels

For me it was 5 and 15 respectively, so quite a gap

Pretty similar to my story except I figured it out at 15 and took closer to a decade to do anything about it. I knew I didn’t want puberty and didn’t like what was happening and wished it would stop, but I didn’t have any kind of framework or reference to understand what I was feeling. My experience with a trans movie as a kid was ace ventura, which didn’t exactly do a good job of explaining things