[Requesting engagement from trans-feminine people on HRT]

I don’t yet know when I will begin hormone replacement therapy, but the anticipation leaves me prone to developing expectations I worry are unrealistic.

Not sure how best to explain. My emotions, and sometimes my expression of those emotions, will feel masculine when heightened. Feeling intensely happy or angry about something even unrelated to my identity, those feelings give me dysphoria because of how masculine they seem. It’s not that being happy or angry is inherently masculine, of course. The dysphoria comes from the emotion’s manifestation seeming masculine.

I don’t know if this makes sense, but has anyone experienced something similar and/or seen changes to these sorts of things?

  • zea
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    7 months ago

    I feel more confident to perform my emotions more femininely, and I feel more confident/happier in general, but I don’t think any of that is a direct result of hormones. 3 months btw.