You better give those mutilated maimed and starving people that you shot some food and help, or I swear to gosh, I'm gonna be so upset.
I detransitioned for almost a year because of my own self-doubt and confusion. When it really came down to it, separated from everything else, I absolutely hated everything about being a man. I hated my body, I hated the way I felt, I hated the way people talked to me. It felt like living a fake life meant for someone else. Like abandoning everything I actually cared about because something else was easier.
That was 8 years ago and I don't doubt myself much anymore. But when I do I try to break it down. Everyone in my life knows me as a woman. That fact never bothers me. I'm very affirmed in the feminization of my body and feel confident when I embrace it. I don't like being called a man, or having he/him pronouns used on me. I dream of being a mother. I see myself aging as a woman.
None of those things really has to do with "being trans". It all has to do with me, with how I feel, with what I like and what I want and what I want to be. Those things inform what I should do to have a happy life. Being a woman has allowed me to be happy. So I do those things and embraced my own identity as a woman. It's not a matter of empirical standards or some form of self evaluation. It's a product of doing what you truly want to, of letting yourself be the you who is happy.
If the world continues to do nothing, we will have to tell our children what Palestine was. The IDF can and, if uninterrupted, will literally slaughter the entirety of Gaza.
Happy birthday!! 😊
Onset time varies a lot. Those charts are very generalized. It's possible you had lower T levels to start.
This is a space for you, your life is transfem experience. You are welcome to post here about whatever you're going through, this space exists to support you.
It is absolutely not your fault that you had to cut out people you knew pre-transition. You deserve friendship and love and emotional support. I think you should talk to your wife and tell her that you don't need her to tell you what to do, just to listen and understand and support you. Sometimes we don't need the "clever things" and just need someone to listen and acknowledge how we feel about something and tell us it's okay.
Yeah there is no logic behind it whatsoever. China is egregiously bad in this regard, but not alone, that's for sure. Conservatives the world over constantly fear monger about birth rates without ever actually trying to address the underlying social financial and cultural problems that prevent people from having children. The solution is always "yell at women to have more babies", not "better regulate the housing market so people wanting to start a family can actually access homes with space for children".
I'm sure the US government will come up with some brilliant reason why this doesn't constitute a war crime and why it is not necessary for the US to actually do literally anything about it.
Unfortunately, puberty, especially with regards to T, continues into your mid twenties. So you will still experience masculinization effects of T for some time. Your voice can get deeper, and you can grow more facial hair and so on. A year while still undergoing the effects of T would probably be really difficult. 😔
As the other commenter said you could start anti adrogens in May and wait to start E until you're away from home. Anti androgens just block T, but you can still experience some feminization taking just them.
First off, congratulations on your upcoming high school graduation! 😊 I'm sure you must be very excited to start HRT and move out on your own.
The development of your breast ducts will happen pretty quickly early on. This will result in your nipples increasing in size and protruding noticeably from your chest. This is normal, breast fat will grow to fill in the shape around your breast duct and once enough of it has grown, the nipple will not appear to protrude and will instead be at the apex of the breast. The development of breast fat takes a longer time than breast ducts though. Certainly if you're on HRT starting in May, by July and August your breast ducts would be developed enough that your nipple would be noticeably larger and raised without a shirt on.
I recommend familiarizing yourself with the tanner breast development scale which can give you a bit more of an idea how this development happens. You could wear a shirt while swimming and a sports bra underneath it. Though depending on the material of the shirt and the color, it might be noticeable that you're wearing one. You may have to find ways out of swimming later in the summer, like saying you don't feel like it or something like that.
But aside from the couple senators who have personally denounced Israel there definitely has been no indication whatsoever that the party intends to change their policy of unconditional support.
I'd be very happy to see that change. But as far as any actual indications of that, there hasn't been any. For the past year up till today the American government has in its entirety remained entirely supportive of Israel and the IDF and fully willing to fund and arm the genocide in Gaza.
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This summer I'm challenging myself to not wear a hoodie every time I leave the house 😅
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I think it's important how it comes across, like when you're complimenting cis people. So, context and what it is that you're complimenting is what I would pay attention to.
That being said, I love getting compliments haha.