Natural Features Working In Your Favor

[Superrad]

My voice was fairly deep pre-t. I was a definite alto and couldn't touch higher notes.
My chest is small, a cup.
I don't really have a "figure".

I mean, I still consider myself to be unlucky when it comes to gender/sex issues but I can appreciate being given the greater short-stick.

[1234]

I've never been on T and I've always had a visible adam's apple.
I think this is a natural feature that works in my favor, here's a pic:

[RagingShadow]

my voice "changed" in second grade (literally squeaked and sqwaked for a year) and then was constantly asked why I had a boy voice
fairly hairy once puberty hit
I was an UGLY girl. never looked right in a dress. EVER.
small chested
thick eyebrows
acne (horrible advantage lol)

disadvantages
hips and butt during puberty
lack of muscle
maturity ( the saying boys mature slower; totally killed me.) i've been spoken to as an adult and gotten on with them better than peers since I was 7

[Dante]

Yeah, pretty much everything about me works against me. I have a large chest, hips, and butt, my face is very soft looking (could be because I'm slightly overweight though), I'm 5'5" (I shrunk an inch!), I can't get calluses on my hands, very fine hair... I could go on.

Pretty much the only thing working for me is my feet. I wear a men's 10 or 11 shoe size, and I have very tough feet from walking barefoot constantly.

[aleon515]

Pros: Androgynous face, bushy eyebrows, hands. Alto and can even go to tenor in a pinch.
Meds: C cup (not too hard to hide or bind), not too curvy (I hate them but realistically not too bad).

Cons: 5'1". Skinny arms and legs. Low muscle tone (actually a bit floppy and double jointed). Age-- can't pass as pre-teen without beard.


--Jay Jay

[Berserk]

- I'm about average height for males in this country and was taller growing up until I stopped growing at a fairly young age lol.

- I've always been hairy as ->-bleeped-<-, especially legs and eyebrows.

- My brow ridge is large enough that it can go either way (not massive, but not flat like many female assigned folks).

- I've always put on muscle/"bulked" very easily. General mesomorph body type.

-Just generally being athletic/coming from an athletic background. I couldn't strike a feminine pose even if I tried, lol. There's this weird way that many female assigned folks move and hold themselves when they've never been trained in a sport. It's not necessarily uncoordinated, but just...not self-assured...and I think that that is sometimes what contributes to some transguys not passing, since society associates that kind of movement/posture with male-ness. Just moving in a way that's...uh...I only know it when I see it but can't quite describe it, lol.

- My voice always was pretty mid-range. Never very high-pitched/definitively female.

- Large feet.

Cons:
- Biggest thing for me was always having small hands...for my height/size my hands are just...pathetic
- Sorry...biggest thing for me was actually always my chest. It was never super-sized, but still very obvious and it never conformed to all the binding

.... But now its gone!

[Luc]

Before going on T, I had a decent amount of facial hair, which started coming in when I was 11, a speaking voice in the low alto range, and broad shoulders (broader than my hips). When I got on T, the first changes I noticed were my voice and facial hair. The rest took a while, but even my hands got bigger. Three years on T did, as far as I can tell, everything that could be done to masculinize me.

[Crazed420]

I'm very... big. Not over 6' but i'm close. I don't have very broad shoulders but then again i've always been bent over because I hate myself and rather not stand up straight. I've got a very androgynous face shape that has played in my favor when i was a lower weight, now not so much just makes me look younger. I have larger hands and as far as i can tell the ability to upkeep a low masculine voice. I'll be posting later to see what you guys think but considering not all of my online friends know and i frequently skype call and no one has said anything, i must be ok at least.

The very.. very large downside is I have very nordic load bearing hips from hell. I hate them with a passion. I never have had very large breasts but dem hips don't lie. I keep finding myself very discouraged from public due to them but thats a whole different topic.

[Ayden]

Pros: I have a strong chin and a Roman nose. (Like, think Alan Rickman).
Cons: I have girly cheek bones and my eye area is pretty feminine. I also have that dreaded Marilyn Monroe style curves, but it just means that I have a drastic difference in my waist and hips - my chest and hips are pretty close in size so at least I can hide it with clothing. My voice was also fairly high pitched before T. Now I sound fabulous.