Low dose HRT, started with Spiro well over a year ago.
I have been using a low dose estradiol patch for a couple months or so.
Spiro can really take the negative aspects of testosterone away.
I find it works very well with my anger issues that stem from gender issues.
The E? Smooth is the only way I have to describe it at this point.
I really haven't had much time to even think about it until just a couple weeks ago.
Within a couple hours of starting the first patch, all hell broke loose in my life.
But now that most of the meetings and legal crap is done,... smooth is about all I can tell you.
I do have a feeling that I have made the right move, and I don't plan on increasing anything or taking anything else.
Surgery is a distant thought, no more relevant than a 'what if' daydream.
But a lot of my wilder 'what if' daydreams have been realized from a small to great extent in my life, so...
Although low dose HRT and/or surgeries isn't for everyone, it is quite common among non-binary people.
At least it is through the University program that I use, and it is a leader in this field.
The poll has interesting results so far. It indicates a diversity among us. I look forward to more entries.
*rant warning*
We share a common ground, us non-binary people.
But... I think it would be very difficult, to group us using such things as HRT and surgery.
I don't think they have the significance to apply them to us that way.
The inclusions and exclusions would just be unfair, in to many ways.
There are just to many variables for that to be feasible.
Some people might view that as a down fall of sorts, I see it as a positive, a good thing.
Think of all the possibilities we have. We have much to offer, from many points of view.
We are full of new possibilities with regards to HRT and surgeries.
We redefine what it means, by presenting these possibilities.
We open many doors that have been locked to some.
That is difficult to do if you are grouped into some kind of sameness, we become lost in it.
There becomes a need for a well worn path to follow when that happens.
We are free to follow our own individual paths, without constraints of a group or type mentality.
I don't mean that all groups are a negative thing, for binaries I think it is a good thing.
I think it has allowed them to find definition, a sensible way to guide them on their own paths, to their destinations.
I can appreciate it because it is something that we draw from, ideas and ways of looking at things.
We just do it differently, we have a journey as a definition, more than a destination.
Where we are destined as individuals, is secondary to how we will get there.
All of this, HRT or not, surgeries or not, it's a part of who we may be, or not.
I never did follow the rules, I have seen them changed and rewritten to often.
Rules are the guidelines that terms and boxes are made from.
If we think outside the 'regular' box, or we make that box bigger, it effectively becomes useless.
We define our own terms, we do not except the definitions of others.
Even among ourselves, we do this. We remain free to do that, to discuss it in many ways.
That's a good thing. That defines us more than anything else.
Ativan
