For context, by this time last year there were 80 anti-trans bills filed. The total of anti-trans bills filed for all of 2024 was 669. In 2023 the total anti trans bills filed was 615 and in 2022 the total was 174.
Think about where this is heading and do anything in your power to stop it now before it’s too late.
They could save this but not stop the first national anti LGBT legislation in thirty years that’s cool
With enough time and money, passing is never unattainable. You just need a plan. It being comforting makes perfect sense.
It sounds like you’re hurting yourself by hiding your identity from others.
Conservatives have no qualm engaging in behaviors that they criticize in others. If they think something will let them get their way they will use it, regardless of double standards or hypocrisy.
Start as soon as you possibly can to start neutralizing the effects of testosterone as soon as possible and to have your bones grow in a feminine manner before they fuse such as your hips.
There is some debate on starting with lower dosages or not and how that can affect transition. Every body is different. You will need to take a form of estrogen, this typically comes in tablets, patches, injections and gels.
You will also need something to block your body from producing or absorbing testosterone. There are a few types of drugs you can take for this. The most prescribed one in the US is spirinolactone. Some boards recommend waiting to start spiro and starting at a lower dose as there has been reports of it causing breast buds to fuse too early.
A medicine that you can start right away without having to wait and you can get from any doctor is finasteride. It can help restore your hairline and stunt any masculinizing effects you receive from DHT, a byproduct of testosterone. Once your testosterone is fully suppressed you can stop taking it as there won’t be any testosterone to convert into DHT.
Here is some light reading to help understand the process.
https://diyhrt.wiki/transfem
https://diyhrt.market/transfem-hrt-guide
https://transfemscience.org/
https://transcare.ucsf.edu/guidelines/feminizing-hormone-therapy
You may pass with HRT or you may not. It doesn’t hurt to have a plan to make yourself as comfortable in your own body as you can be. If that includes FFS then so be it, there is no shame in making a plan to get it. And who knows, while you wait for surgery you may even begin to pass as time goes on. My face has looked completely different every year that I’ve been on HRT.
There’s also no shame in identifying as whatever makes you feel the most comfortable and the most safe. It is completely understandable. Lord knows we all wish we could be so confident in ourselves no matter what, but we have to do what we can to survive.
I still boy mode outside of work and friends because I don’t feel safe being seen as trans by strangers and it hurts less when I am misgendered because at least I’m not trying.
My advice for now, try not to fixate on what about your face is causing you to not pass. In most cases it’s not any one part but how things fit together and in any case the FFS surgeon will know best. Also, please try your best not to let “not passing” stop you from living your life.
It’s reddit wide. Under any story about Luigi if the link to the manifesto gets posted it gets removed.
Breaking news, capitalism operates off of planned economies. More at 10.
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Elden ring and armored core not being on sale was a disappointment
Whenever a populist candidate pops up, the dnc does everything it can to crush them.
Don’t worry, Democrats have been doing everything they can to drop minorities after this election
The amount of gaslighting we’re experiencing for things that are already in motion is ridiculous. People would rather bury their heads in the sand than acknowledge reality
Hey do you dissociate a lot? My dissociation ruins my memory in a way very similar to yours. This questionnaire can kind of give you a guideline on how much dissociation you may have
http://traumadissociation.com/des
Don’t worry the incoming administration has gone on record numerous times about cracking down on veteran disability…
For anyone with any doubt about OP’s comment, here’s the current landscape for specifically anti-trans bills:
668 bills considered just this year. 1200 in the past two years. 84 national bills proposed this year. Tell me any minority in the history of the earth that has had this much legislation levied against them.
Next year the Republicans will be able to pass these bills carte blanche. It’s looking bleak out there y’all
I’m also doing a new build! I would’ve held on to my eight year old PC a little longer but with the incoming tariffs I decided to pull the trigger now before they kick in
This is the correct answer. If anyone is interested in more, here are a couple of relevant articles.
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/06/1249406353/transgender-bathroom-bill-republican-states
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/03/anti-trans-transgender-health-care-ban-legislation-bill-minors-children-lgbtq/
If we’re being real here the reason is because they lost the war on gay acceptance and needed a new target to direct their hate towards.