5 Things No One Told Me About Transitioning

[Natkat]

yep!

I had a transguy come up to me once and ask me even the most BASIC questions about T because he said he was going to start it in a few months.  just ridiculous.  I knew everything there was to know about T at least a year before I began.

if you know the right places it can be very easy to get T (and the wrong places it can be extremly hard)
I feel very free to tell people how they can get T, but I use to send them a guide with me so they can read about it, alittle before and while. manly for there own sake..

I did personally self felt it was relaxing to know what you go into and what you can expect or shouldnt expect.
of corse it might not be posible to check every little detail, and many of them are also something very diffrent from person to person. but well, just knowing the basic or have other people to talk about with T is a good start.

[dalebert]

Yeah, I knew everything like three years before, haha. Or almost everything. some things you really have to think about though, because you can't be sure if it's T  or something else. In this case, the emotional changes could arguably have a number of origins.

I'm inclined in that direction as well. There are all kinds of physical changes that would likely affect our behavior like if you have a stomach ache, you're likely to get quiet and grumpy, just as an obvious example. I can imagine that if you're feeling massive dysphoria and physical changes start to relieve that dysphoria, you might experience some pretty dramatic personality changes as a result, like being more outgoing and confident. It would be easy to associate those changes with T in some direct way when they're really an indirect result of the physical changes. And that's just one more obvious example. I can imagine that various physical changes can have any number of complex changes on a person's behavior without any direct impact on the brain, but it would be difficult not to associate those things with T directly because they seem highly correlated.

[dalebert]

I apologize for a slight divergence from the topic, but this has been bugging me. What is it with those giant-billed hats? I've only ever seen those on trans guys on YouTube. Am I missing something? Is this like a secret handshake thing that trans guys use to identify each other when they're stealth or something? It's to the point that if I ever see one on someone IRL, I'm going to wonder if he's trans. Am I reading too much into this?

[Jayr]

Guys we get the damn point.

Stop repeating each other like a bunch of parrots.

I was posting it for the few that are new to this and might not know.

But by all of you guys standards trans people should know all that right off the bat.

And I don't know about the hat.

[geek]

Guys we get the damn point.

Stop repeating each other like a bunch of parrots.

I was posting it for the few that are new to this and might not know.

But by all of you guys standards trans people should know all that right off the bat.

And I don't know about the hat.

So... you asked for opinions and don't like the ones we give. okay.

[Jayr]

Didn't think everyone would be so damn negative about it.

[peky]

First thing I notice is that he start with the "I am stealth, and I cannot share my past," to go next to: "I hate I have to be constantly teaching about transness;" Well, unless I am missing something, this seems contradictory, either you are one or the other, something does not adds up!

[Nero]

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