These suggestions include progestogens having known antiestrogenic effects in the breasts, animal studies finding stunted mammary development with high doses of progestogens, clinical publications cautioning against premature introduction of progestogens in female puberty induction due to concerns about possibly stunted breast growth, clinical use of progestogens to treat macromastia in cisgender females, poor breast development with estrogen therapy in cisgender girls with a disorder of sexual development that results in high progesterone exposure, and breast development with estrogen and CPA (a very strong progestogen) typically being poor in transfeminine people.
Folks very much are starting earlier now! A recent paper noted that, "[m]ost patients who started progesterone began after 1-6 months on a standard GAHT regimen (59.3%)." But only two women were doing rectal administration in that study, which is what everyone online says works best.
My first year of hrt was all diy. I added progesterone after a bit more than eighteen months of slowly increasing estrogen, with the advice of a doctor, around seven years ago. At the time my dose of e was 6mg/day buccal, and p was 100mg/day oral for the first six months, then the other way. Maybe a year after that, a different doctor increased p to 200mg and eventually started me on injections around four and a half years ago. It's been more than eight and half years now since I started hrt. The younger woman I was when beginning would be thrilled with where the girls have ended up, but I'd still like them a bit bigger.
It kind of blows my mind that folks are starting progesterone so early now. The old lore was to wait at least two to three years due to fear of stunted growth.
You are making the right choice to not abuse alcohol or drugs! Many queer folks end up in rehabs or worse, the "justice" system, by following such a path. I highly recommend Recovery Dharma! Your desire to not "give in" is ample reason to take a look at their free book, try some meditations, or drop in on a zoom meeting. Loving kindness or compassion would be a good start if you're not familiar with meditation, as they both help with self-compassion. Meditation, mindfulness, and exercise help me a lot. Yoga and sound healing are good too. Friendships help! As dandelion says, having a dream that you work towards can hold the horrors at bay. Your goal should be to actively cultivate psychological resilience. I have more confidence in the resiliency of queer folks than the regime.
So, my advice is to make a SMART goal---one which is specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely---to build psychological resilience by practicing mindfulness meditation. Coincidentally it just so happens that making realistic plans and following through on them also builds resilience as well, so start making more of them.
Hopefully this is of some usefulness to you! You're welcome to message me if you like!
Yay! It's wonderful that a bad situation was turned into a fun kid friendly dance party protest! But shouldn't the hate group have to reimburse the city? There's some more pictures over on this site. (I like to look at protest fashion :)
It would be great to have your community join lemmy either here on blahaj or beehaw! I'd definitely subscribe! The closed registration was what most drew me to beehaw over blahaj, but I'm fairly defensive regarding potential troll exposure and the general unpleasantness of which the internet excels. Raddle could be a nice fit for you all as well. However an examination of the rules there would be well advised for those making the switch. Language frequently used on reddit would run afoul of many. Good luck with your potential move!
I always do it right after bathing and drying my clawfoot tub. The hair should be no longer than 5mm or it will break off instead of pulling out from the follicle! The removed hair will also look different if it was broken instead of pulled out. Its like you can see the base part at the end. Good luck! :)
My skin tone and hair color are similar to your description: it was significantly visible enough on my legs after shaving to make the act seems pointless. Epilating does work very well and makes me feel much more comfortable in my skin. Either as a result of the epilator, hrt, or both, its no longer so bad on my chest. There are still some hairs around my areolae and belly button but I could get away with just shaving my chest if I wanted. As a bonus the epilator will be better for the planet and save you money but the real true draw for me is the abject bliss of the pain. :)
That sums it right up I think but supposedly its for the worlds creditors who all read your local newspaper to watch for us changing our names just to get away from debts.
Congratulations! Hey Catherine, have you thought about keeping a diary? That's something I really wish I'd have done during my first year. It really is a magical time and having a diary of my first year or two would be a treasured possession despite some terrible circumstances. My first six months were in rehab :) Glad you were able to figure it out and to see you here on lemmy!
Yep! It's been five years so far of hrt for me and I still haven't legally changed my name. Most likely that's due to having felt like names were all fake for so much of my life. Yet why was I so jealous of my friend who just picked her own new name in grade school and got away with it? My state in the us still requires running a newspaper ad for a while which isn't something I'm looking forward to and the state I was born in requires gcs to change birth certificates. There's a fair possibility that I'm intersex as well though which would allow me to have my birth certificate changed to reflect that with only a test of some sort. I'm definitely going to get it all done before the end of the next presidential election here since who knows what horrors might happen if the republicans won in this climate.
Damn... That's an important mental health resource. Humor is a decent defense against both depression and authoritarianism: by means of it one gets through many a dark night. Thankful we are a wonderfully resourceful group but I will dearly miss traa meet chasers and the rest.
Apparently some are trying to make https://raddle.me/f/Trans happen? The fediverse has interested me for a while but it took another controversy to push me into becoming a newbie again. I'm still figuring out how to lemmy :) So far Beehaw seems to be a fabulous place and I'm glad you're all here!
MoonPay + Electrum has worked well in the past for me.
Behold the elder-lore, once sung 'round internet campfire tales of yore! /j
Transfeminine Science has a thorough discussion of the concerns:
Folks very much are starting earlier now! A recent paper noted that, "[m]ost patients who started progesterone began after 1-6 months on a standard GAHT regimen (59.3%)." But only two women were doing rectal administration in that study, which is what everyone online says works best.
My first year of hrt was all diy. I added progesterone after a bit more than eighteen months of slowly increasing estrogen, with the advice of a doctor, around seven years ago. At the time my dose of e was 6mg/day buccal, and p was 100mg/day oral for the first six months, then the other way. Maybe a year after that, a different doctor increased p to 200mg and eventually started me on injections around four and a half years ago. It's been more than eight and half years now since I started hrt. The younger woman I was when beginning would be thrilled with where the girls have ended up, but I'd still like them a bit bigger.
It kind of blows my mind that folks are starting progesterone so early now. The old lore was to wait at least two to three years due to fear of stunted growth.
You are making the right choice to not abuse alcohol or drugs! Many queer folks end up in rehabs or worse, the "justice" system, by following such a path. I highly recommend Recovery Dharma! Your desire to not "give in" is ample reason to take a look at their free book, try some meditations, or drop in on a zoom meeting. Loving kindness or compassion would be a good start if you're not familiar with meditation, as they both help with self-compassion. Meditation, mindfulness, and exercise help me a lot. Yoga and sound healing are good too. Friendships help! As dandelion says, having a dream that you work towards can hold the horrors at bay. Your goal should be to actively cultivate psychological resilience. I have more confidence in the resiliency of queer folks than the regime.
So, my advice is to make a SMART goal---one which is specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely---to build psychological resilience by practicing mindfulness meditation. Coincidentally it just so happens that making realistic plans and following through on them also builds resilience as well, so start making more of them.
Hopefully this is of some usefulness to you! You're welcome to message me if you like!
Yay! It's wonderful that a bad situation was turned into a fun kid friendly dance party protest! But shouldn't the hate group have to reimburse the city? There's some more pictures over on this site. (I like to look at protest fashion :)
It would be great to have your community join lemmy either here on blahaj or beehaw! I'd definitely subscribe! The closed registration was what most drew me to beehaw over blahaj, but I'm fairly defensive regarding potential troll exposure and the general unpleasantness of which the internet excels. Raddle could be a nice fit for you all as well. However an examination of the rules there would be well advised for those making the switch. Language frequently used on reddit would run afoul of many. Good luck with your potential move!
I always do it right after bathing and drying my clawfoot tub. The hair should be no longer than 5mm or it will break off instead of pulling out from the follicle! The removed hair will also look different if it was broken instead of pulled out. Its like you can see the base part at the end. Good luck! :)
My skin tone and hair color are similar to your description: it was significantly visible enough on my legs after shaving to make the act seems pointless. Epilating does work very well and makes me feel much more comfortable in my skin. Either as a result of the epilator, hrt, or both, its no longer so bad on my chest. There are still some hairs around my areolae and belly button but I could get away with just shaving my chest if I wanted. As a bonus the epilator will be better for the planet and save you money but the real true draw for me is the abject bliss of the pain. :)
That sums it right up I think but supposedly its for the worlds creditors who all read your local newspaper to watch for us changing our names just to get away from debts.
Congratulations! Hey Catherine, have you thought about keeping a diary? That's something I really wish I'd have done during my first year. It really is a magical time and having a diary of my first year or two would be a treasured possession despite some terrible circumstances. My first six months were in rehab :) Glad you were able to figure it out and to see you here on lemmy!
Yep! It's been five years so far of hrt for me and I still haven't legally changed my name. Most likely that's due to having felt like names were all fake for so much of my life. Yet why was I so jealous of my friend who just picked her own new name in grade school and got away with it? My state in the us still requires running a newspaper ad for a while which isn't something I'm looking forward to and the state I was born in requires gcs to change birth certificates. There's a fair possibility that I'm intersex as well though which would allow me to have my birth certificate changed to reflect that with only a test of some sort. I'm definitely going to get it all done before the end of the next presidential election here since who knows what horrors might happen if the republicans won in this climate.
Damn... That's an important mental health resource. Humor is a decent defense against both depression and authoritarianism: by means of it one gets through many a dark night. Thankful we are a wonderfully resourceful group but I will dearly miss traa meet chasers and the rest.
Apparently some are trying to make https://raddle.me/f/Trans happen? The fediverse has interested me for a while but it took another controversy to push me into becoming a newbie again. I'm still figuring out how to lemmy :) So far Beehaw seems to be a fabulous place and I'm glad you're all here!