What advice can you give me about transitioning from mtf
Remember that HRT and transitioning in general is a process that takes years. Not months. Not days. Not I took one pill why has nothing happened yet?!?! I’m almost six years into my transition and I haven’t finished it yet.
Be patient and plan the long game from the beginning. 3 years in you begin to have a broad sense of what you look like and what you’re moving towards. 5 years in you’ll know if your breast will grow naturally to the size you desire or if you’ll need to get some outside help.
Make sure you hit your facial hair first with sessions of laser till it’s been destroyed. Facial hair is the single biggest dysphoria trigger. It hurts to see and you’ll see it at the root. Nobody else will but you will. No you’re not crazy. People just don’t stare at your face as hard core intense as your about to. It might as well be invisible to them and a big fuckin loudspeaker screaming “man! Maaaaannn!” at you.
Remember that you have to take your full dosage every day for all those years. Otherwise you’ll upset your hormonal balance. Takin dosages at random messes with your body chemistry. Things in your body rely on specific cues from a host of hormonal tickling. The idea to HRT isn’t rocket science. Otherwise most of us couldn’t hope to manage. The idea is to bring down your testosterone to levels that will no longer cause everything from hair growth, muscle/body fat ratios to bone density and size/shape to continue down the wrong path. Understand, a lot of these processes take 20-30 years to finish in your average body. What we are doing with HRT, if done early enough, is to curtail the process from our birth sex to more reflect our gender identity.So if you don’t take your HRT the natural birth sex will run its course. If you do take it, on time and regularly, the natural process is mostly halted as the replacement hormones do what they can. If you’re a 17 yr old transitioning you can expect a far better result then say a 24 yr old transitioning. 24>34 and so on and so on. This isn’t always the law to go by. Individuals are a huge factor. But if your just going to broad stroke guess then that’s how you do it. What I’m trying to stress here is this. It takes 20-30 years for some of these bone processes to play out. Our adult brain isn’t even considered fully matured till 22-25 years of age. Some never quite reach it in +80 years sadly. So take your hormones. Always if you don’t you will begin to masculinize and run the risk of losing all the laser and anything else beneficial you’ve done for yourself.
I plan on getting FFS at some point this year. So that means for me, in year six, I am clearly not finished transitioning. Late transitioners like myself have to rely on some surgical assistance to shore up some things we were to late to stop. Don’t look at surgeries as if they were simply cosmetic. They are corrective. The features your body naturally grew do not aid you in your quest for survival, success, fulfillment and happiness. You would not leave an extra ear on a child’s forehead just as you would not ask someone who needs to be perceived as “normal” or to a level of normality to be allowed access to every day social benefits and rights to never correct what makes them abnormal or so different it compromises their ability to live a normal life. There are very high economic walls you have to scale in order to transition. These walls keep us from reaching ourselves and they can feel impossible to scale. Just remember your transitions is going to take multiple years to a decade to complete.
So pace your savings accordingly so that when you reach Year four or five you’ve saved enough to start getting into the final surgeries to finish the feminization process for your individual needs. If you got every surgery you wanted and it ran into $50k to do. If you save 10k a year for five years it’s done. 5k for 10 years.Finally just remember to breath and take your time. You can’t let yourself spend the first half decade of your transition hating yourself, your pr predicament and the world that obviously despises you. You need to push past it all and remember to live a full and happy life. Good luck. It’s a marathon so keep a nice pace and you’ll do perfectly. :)
Amazing advice about the decisions and commitments you need to make.

















