#floatinggoathead

My professional opinion is that that specialist is a buttface.

This packet from the NHS from 2007 talks about possible alternate delivery methods for testosterone, and I haven’t found anything that says they’ve decided “actually, injections only.” So it seems that you’ve just had the unfortunately common experience of someone else deciding that they get to make way more choices about what you’re doing with your gender than you do. It’s an obnoxiously prevalent opinion that if you “really want it” and you’re “man enough,” you’ll be able to deal with needles, but there’s nothing about gender identity that makes you more or less capable of dealing with pointy things. Some people can, some people can’t, some people would just prefer not to, and it’s not anyone’s place to make judgments about someone else’s gender identity based on whether they’re comfortable with injections.

See if you can get to a different specialist. Keep going to different specialists until you find someone who will listen, because you are in the right here and it is absolutely unacceptable for their bigotry to prevent you from transitioning the way you want to.

I’m guessing British people get confused on this because they use the word “biscuit” for those round, sweet things us Americans call “cookies.”

The word “biscuit” in America ONLY means a soft and buttery lump of bread served with dinner. We don’t think of them as “savory biscuits,” because we don’t call anything sweet a biscuit!

I’ve had English things 100% identical to these, you just use some other word for them, that’s all! I just have no recollection what!

Edit/ I’m told “scones”.....but a “scone” in America is this super sweet thing:

Something that was SUPER weird for me was that it took a few days for my brain’s map of my body to match up with the material reality of my body. I’d move my hand in front of or on my chest, and my brain would go “there’s a Boob there” and when there wasn’t, I got that feeling like... you know when you go to pick something up and it is SIGNIFICANTLY lighter than you expected and your brain kinda fizzes and reboots? Like that. Except with my chest. I felt, in some ways, like I was somehow managing to put my hand THROUGH solid flesh, but there was no flesh there.

There was also a significant change in how I perceived my entire body, because there were no longer breasts there. I look at old pictures of myself and have a moment of thinking “huh, I think my posture was better? My stomach doesn’t stick out as much” and then I realize it just LOOKS that way, because I had the same bad posture but my breasts were ALSO sticking out, so the fact that my lower back curves way too far in was less noticeable than it is now. You don’t realize how much individual body parts impact the way you think of/construct/perceive your whole body until they’re not there any more.

Also when I’m eating food sitting down and I drop it it lands on my lap instead of my chest. Which seems obvious but I still sometimes look for it on my chest first.

He Emerges From The Vape Cloud

No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know |

Send “You have to come out at some point!” for my muse to lock themselves inside their bedroom and refuse to come out.

it waS HARDER THAN I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE I’M SORRY