My bf has actually done each of these at least once 😆
Omfg I love him so much 😭🩷
This just makes me kinda sad lol
Partner has done exactly zero of these 😭
Many of these I would only do if I was really sure it was wanted… So make sure your partner knows. Maybe you don’t have to be sad?
Haha yeah, maybe i can be more blunt about it idk
Everything except prog, havent done that yet 😂
Heyyyyyy I wasn’t gunna ask but you used the word, too, and… I like knowing things so I don’t make an ass of myself.
What does prog mean? Please and thank you in advance 😊
No worries! I always take questions lol
Prog is short for progesterone, a drug that is useful in hormone therapy ❤️
Ok, thank you! so as an afab I’m familiar with progesterone, is there a reason it gets boofed? (Anal insertion, as it sounds like from the post, or is this a shot to the glutes and I’m misreading it?)
As i understand it (sorry couldnt quickly find a good source soo take with salt grains) prog generally works better with the boof method(didnt think id type that today 😂) and there is oral doses but theyre far more ineffective. As i recall there isnt a shot you can take of prog.
(Someone please correct me if im wrong lol)
As i recall there isnt a shot you can take of prog
Apparently, there is, but it has some downsides…
- Progesterone cannot be esterified like estradiol, which means it has a very short half life this way, which means daily injections (damn, and I thought every 3 days was bad 😭)
- I saw one person’s experience with injectable prog. They had levels of 150nmol/L at everyday dosing (can’t remember the exact dose). I have 550nmol/L just from boofing…
- Boofing already bypasses the liver and goes directly into the bloodstream. Prog injections do the same, but they’re daily shots…why not just boof in that case?
Apparently, in my country, these is Agolutin. But, I mean, boofing is working just fine…I do NOT need more injections 😆
Agolutin
Also seems to be 60mg/2ml in an ampule. That’s just a large injection volume…
Yeah no. I’ll take boofing progI could see that being the case I suppose. The anus is full of blood vessels, and boofing gets it straight to the blood stream instead of breaking down into metabolites in the digestive system. Just very different than any hormone therapy I’ve heard of, for like menopause and stuff. Tho that could just be that old rich white women won’t stick fingers up the bum…
Now I wonder if ftm have something similar that gets vaginally inserted (only non-oral hole with more blood vessels than the anus is the vagina!)
Thanks for the info, I feel more informed :)
Two posts about becoming a house wife in a row. The children yearn for the kitchen
Hey, I already am a housewife! While my bf is at work, I clean this place up, take care of the dirty laundry and stuff. I keep this place nice! 😆 (even tho we’re not yet married, does the term housewife still apply?)
I wish I was still a child tho…being an adult sucks 😭😭😭Oh, yeah defo applies. Marriage is more for legal recognition but the relationship dynamics apply regardless of legal tender.
Can confirm, adulting sucks
we can call you a housegirlfriend if you’d prefer :3
I think I’d like that, actually :3
in that case congratulations, you just earned yourself a tag!
Omg, I’ve been tagged 😭
I feel blessed 🩷No idea how tags work on Lemmy, but I’m guessing only you see the tags you make? They’re not community-wide like Reddit flairs? It’s a shame. This is a really cute one too
Thank youuu 💜yeah they’re just a little note you can add to a user to help remember who’s who, once you’ve got a few of them it can be quite fun to see familiar faces showing up in the most random places all over lemmy :3
they’re purely a client-side feature and the official lemmy ui doesn’t support them - personally i use Summit for Lemmy when browsing on mobile but i’m pretty sure most of the other popular mobile apps support tags as wellOh, I’m on Summit too, thanks for teaching me about tags!
Tbf, it’s 4chan. Misogyny is expected.
“Women should have a right to choose how to live their lives. Unless they choose to be housewives, that’s misogyny.”
That’s what I’ve always found hilarious about the white knighting for femenism. It’s literally about choice, and a woman’s right to choose. If they CHOOSE to be a housewife, more power to them and they shouldn’t be belittled for it.
feminism wasn’t initiated to give more rights to women, it was initiated to increase the mass of laborers willing to let themselves be exploited by companies. they just had to sell it to the people as “actually, this is good for women somehow”
Feminism is absolutely about pursuing equal rights. Your issue is with the exploitative nature of capitalism.
The goal of feminists was to gain more rights. The goal of the parties who supported them was to increase number of laborers.
Both are true at the same time.
Yeah. God forbid a woman WANTS to work.
My partner is permanently disabled. We’re a single income home. They WISH they could work, as we struggle to get by sometimes.
i’m well aware that some people want to work but consider this: women today can effectively not choose to stay at home in like 99% of cases. where do you find a partner that is willing to pay for this? basically anyone would expect that the woman contributes financially, because after all other women can do it too, right? so it’s effectively not a choice that women can make, they’re expected to work by society. and so it’s more of an obligation instead of a choice.
I think you’re interleaving two separate changes. One is the mid-20th century feminist fight for women to be allowed to work (in the West, anyway), and the other is the fact that wages haven’t kept up with cost of living increases since about the Reagan era. Capitalists forcing everyone to work full-time jobs just to scrape by was certainly enabled by the success of feminist labor movements, but you’re drawing a false equivalence between the feminist goal of “if they’d like to, women should be allowed to perform any job” and the capitalist goal of “we can make it impossible for families to get by without all adults being worked to the bone, that will increase our labor pool”. The early feminists wanted to be able to choose to provide for themselves, maybe even provide for a stay-at-home husband. What you’re saying sounds a lot like “the only good feminists are housewives”.
Omfg I wish. 23, Barely 3 months into estrogen… Only maybe a month into deutasteride… And well I don’t exactly pass. At least YET… I think I can one day I can but am really really uncertain about now or how. I don’t see “passing” as a requirement but when it FEELS possible… Well… Yknow… Hard to get my mind off of. I get those looks in my redneck-ass hometown if you get my meaning, but I still feel like I’m just passing as “gay”… I reaaaally don’t know where I’m at and am… Ugh. Def somewhere between " gay" and just “emo” I think? Hard to tell alone.
Okay, tbh idk. If anyone active in this community is willing to DM and help or someone know what/where is a good place I should post, it’s much appreciated - been lurking for years now - y’all are the most welcoming community ever, and have me hopeful enough I’ve switched my lemmy instance… Feeling like this might be opportune time?
Note: this
post(comment… I’m so sorry…) probably looks a lot more spiral-ey than intended upon rereading it… Sending it as is because I still honestly have no idea how to word this better… Thanks to anyone who tolerates this, you’re the best, really. Might delete soon for sake of others if I’m a total idiot… May have a bit of truth serum flowing through me rn if you catch my drift…Girl, slow down. You’re only 3 months in. You probably get this a lot, but that’s practically the beginning of your journey! Puberty takes time, even the second time around.
I don’t know what you look like, but I think you have a great chance at passing. Starting at 23 is quite early.You’re not a total idiot. Please be nicer to yourself <3
Out of curiosity, I have a couple of questions that you don’t need to answer, but I’ll try anyway:
- What is your HRT regimen?
- Dutasteride is not a T blocker, it’s a DHT blocker. Are you taking an anti-androgen or are you on monotherapy?
- How are the effects treating you?
- By “truth serum” do you mean alcohol? If so, do you drink a lot? I’m not judging, but…please don’t, it’s bad.
- Do you have a supportive person to talk to? If not, do you have Matrix, by any chance?
Sorry for all the questions…
Wishing you the best, girlie. I believe in you 💜AHHHH, I’m so sorry. Thank you though. As I’m aware, puberty lasts around 10 years and yeah… I’m definitely impatient about it sometimes. In all honesty I do think I have a decent chance at passing - its just that friends don’t really know like… Anything about this stuff… I’m one of the only trans people they know at all, if they know any, and even if they do I’m the one they’re closer to so in the one who gets fielded questions I don’t always have answers to despite really wanting them if that makes sense. I really appreciate your kindness.
- 1.5mls SubQ weekly and one 0.5MG pill of dutasteride per night.
- Whatsawhawha?
- I’ve noticed very little since starting estrogen. Body mass redistribution is noticeable in my figure. I grew boobs pretty fast, but that slowed quick too and I am ultimately still pretty flat. Noticeable decrease in muscle mass. Body hair slightly thinner. The world appears visually more saturated… Can’t tell if that’s placebo, but it never went away and was pretty instant.
- Yes, truth serum is alcohol, and I don’t tend to drink often but sometimes when I do I can overdo it which is a problem, yeaaah. Trying to be better any time I do, and have been successful generally. I appreciate the concern but no need to worry.
- Super hard to tell. Yes and no? Everyone in my life is suuuuper busy, and I usually get to talk to any one person once a week or so. Those that aren’t are the sort that are supportive, kind, and willing to learn, but don’t know much and so I can’t really go to in any sense other than occassional vent-space. I don’t like venting to people too much either, which ultimately leads to bottling up and then… Well… The occasional vent anyways… Which I like even less. I do have matrix, and would absolutely appreciate any extra support I’d you’re willing to give any.
Also, don’t worry about asking questions, I’m a pretty open book and you’re offering support. Thank you. <3
hey i properly started HRT pretty close to my 23rd birthday! it just takes time. i didn’t look visibly different at all (aside from my increasing long hair) until maybe 5 or 6 months in, and the changes i’ve noticed since are still coming along very slowly. of course you don’t pass after 3 months; you’ve barely even started! give it a year and you’ll be surprised by how different stuff looks.
EDIT: if you do wanna chat, feel free to msg me on lemmy or matrix (see my bio) :3
I started on my 23rd! Thank you for the kind words. Yeah, the “give it a year” thing is what I keep telling myself. Paranoia and impatience have me in an occasional spiral like the above… Sorry about that. Trying to workaround it best I can in the meantime by learning better fashion, but I gotta say I don’t think everything I’m trying is working and I definitely don’t have funds to throw at a wall figuring it out right now. I’m lost.
I’d love to chat! <3
hahah i just saw this and thought “omg i’ll have to send this to miisha” xD
Aww, that’s so sweet of you, thanks ♥️
Am I really the first person that comes to mind with words like “loving” and “boyfriend”? 😭
Actually no, I get that. I guess I do overshare and talk about my bf a lot. Especially about the loving 😆
Am I really the first person that comes to mind with words like “loving” and “boyfriend”? 😭
no but we talked about this specific thing like yesterday :)
Omg, my memory IS trash. My bf was right 😭
You’re absolutely right, lol. I was browsing my gallery of memes, wondering which one to post, I actually picked this one because I remembered the experience with my bf when I was drunk…My brain…it works (sometimes), I swear 😭
I am woefully ignorant and would like to know what a prog is and why it is regularly inserted in to the butt. Thank you for your time.
Progesterone is an element of HRT that is commonly taken as a suppository
It’s progesterone, another hormone besides estradiol. There are nearly zero studies on prog and transfems, but anecdotally it helps with mood, breast growth and libido for some people.
why it is regularly inserted in to the butt
Taking it orally causes your liver to convert most of the progesterone into allopregnanolone, which makes you drunk lol.
It’s a pleasant feeling but doesn’t give you very high blood levels of progesterone. Boofing bypasses the liver completely.In my experience, 400mg prog orally gave me almost undetectable levels (even tho the drunk feeling was nice 😭), but now, boofing the same amount, I have third trimester blood levels of prog. And I feel great, tbh 😆
YMMVOh gotcha, thanks for the info
This but make it a girl. What’s more girly than another girl?
Checkmate.
agreed, but then it’d be trivial to apply greentext logic to show that the post is fake and gay
fake: anon has a gf
gay: lesbiansOmggg, thank you so much 😭
TMI: oversharing of the past
There was a period, earlier in my transition, where I genuinely thought I didn’t deserve to call myself a girl.
My (at the time) best friend was not supportive and his gf turned out to be a massive TERF. They really grilled me…and it ruined my self confidence in the beginning, but it’s much better now.
It was actually the first unsupportive encounter I had, when coming out.It was my mistake, actually. I should have expected that. Back when I was 14 and my egg cracked, I tried to come out to the most trusted person at the time…him. He got angry with me. He said some bad stuff and it scared me way back into the closet. It’s a shame really. My mom would have supported me and I could have gotten blockers…
But that doesn’t matter anymore, it’s in the past.He also kept making racist and bigoted jokes through elementary school and beyond under the guise of “I just like dark humor, don’t police my humor”. God, I should have known…it was stupid of me to trust a person like that.
Hope he’s doing well, because I sure am 😄
I’m literally just a girl, with an amazing bf, surrounded by nothing but supportive people. Couldn’t care less about what two stupid bigots think.This sounds like you’ve come to understand a lot, indicating you’re way better off emotionally than you used to. Congratulations!
I’m glad you’re doing better. I am very early but I love seeing little parts of your life crop up in my feed. It gives me the fuzzies to see you living out my goals.
I am so stupid…
I completely misread the first sentence of your comment and thought you wrote something like me being girly. I thought it was a compliment…
And then I read the newest comment, and was confused like “Huh? Lesbians?”I’m so sorryyy 😭
I make everything about myself, willingly or (this time) accidentally…I’m genuinely so dumb, sorry 😭
