Have you noticed any difference in how old you look since starting HRT

[stephaniec]

It seems as I look at my pre HRT and post beginning there seems to be quite a difference in how it looks like my age has change. I really don't know because I'm just looking at myself , but it does seem I've taken a few years off with HRT. Have others seen a small or big change since starting hormones, just curious.

[Dee Marshall]

I've always looked young for my age, Now that I'm transitioning I look closer to my real age, but maybe that will change as I alter my (and develop my own) style.

[sam1234]

Its been a while since I've looked at numbers, but in general, transmen tend to look younger than they are and transwomen tend to look their age. I don't think that took into account any makeup, and the surgery techniques were different. Our skin changes as we get older, loses elasticity, gets age spots etc., but from the hormone side of things, I would think that female hormones would soften transwomen's skin, thereby making them look younger.

sam1234

[Dee Marshall]

Perhaps it's the true gender traits we tend to have. Male bodies with feminine traits look younger because more masculine versions of those traits develop over time. So, an FtoM with residual female traits would look younger, where as an FtoMs inherent female traits would look more age appropriate as the FtoM looked more obviously female.

[stephaniec]

estrogen vs testosterone, well it looks like the difference in my face is the shifting of the fat and a softer look.

[Ashey]

I don't think things changed for me since I always looked a few years younger and I still did after transitioning. But now that my hair is shorter, I'm starting to look my age. :/

[AnonyMs]

Its a very interesting question. I've always looked a lot younger than my age, but since starting HRT I look younger still. I often get mistaken for 10-15 years younger. Not many people can pick my age anywhere near what it is.

I'm still presenting male, so I don't know what would happen if I start presenting female successfully. It would be nice if it carried over.

[Zoetrope]

It's part of puberty. One goes though a lot of new cell growth in this period. Hence, it can appear quite rejuvenating.

[Ⓥ]

Beard shadow gone + softer, more even-toned skin + more defined cheeks = 10 years turned back!

Really not too proud of my age, but I've gotten used to agape mouths when people ask...which is fun.

I think the more masculine you are to start, the more the reversing clock effect happens.

[Ms Grace]

According to how-old.net I look a whole 30 years younger!!



Before I transitioned I had a number of people saying to me they thought I was looking "younger", my endo reckons so too. Must be true!

[Carrie Liz]

According to those automatic age/gender-identifying sites like pictriev and how-old.net, I've gone from consistently looking like I was in my early 30s in just about every picture I took pre-transition to looking like I'm in my mid-20s in just about every picture I take post-transition.

I can definitely attest to the difference in people's guesses of my age too. I never got a single comment about my age before hormones. I'm a poker dealer by profession, so age can kinda be a big deal since you have to be 21 to even play poker, and I started HRT at age 27. About 5 months after I started HRT, people started routinely started asking me "are you old enough to be dealing this game?" So apparently I looked like a teenager at the time. Post-transition, I've had a few customers at work tell me that I don't look my age, I look like I'm in my mid-20s rather than looking like I'm about to turn 30 in a few months.

So yeah, for me HRT has really turned back the clock. (And I'm sure all of the skincare and Retin-A and other things that I've done since now I actually care about my appearance for the first time have probably helped too.)

[Lady Smith]

Well I'm 61 and most folk think I'm a decade younger when they meet me, so I guess HRT is working for me too.

[Dee Marshall]

According to how-old.net I look a whole 30 years younger!!

OK, so maybe it's just sour grapes, that darned thing told me I looked 83!

[Cindy]

I found out my mirror had wrinkles, no they were not mine!

[iKate]

People told me I looked like a teenager when I was in the very beginning of HRT. I do look younger.

However how-old.net gets my age correct.

[Eva Marie]

Estrogen has definitely turned the clock back for me. I constantly get told that I look younger than my actual age. On a recent trip to see my parents (I hadn't gone full time yet and they didn't know) my mom told me that I was looking a lot like a little boy 

[Sabrina]

If anything, I think I look a bit younger. However, that could be the makeup.

[stephaniec]

According to how-old.net I look a whole 30 years younger!!



Before I transitioned I had a number of people saying to me they thought I was looking "younger", my endo reckons so too. Must be true!

must be those platypus eggs Aussies make omelets out of.

[judithlynn]

I have just returned from 6 weeks in the United Kingdom and a couple of weeks in Europe and I met up with a lot of my family, female friends and even  new women friends that had been introduced to me.  Whilst I was in the UK, except whilst visiting  my cousins, I was basically 100% living and presenting as Judith, since most of the people certainly in England where my cottage is only know me as a woman. What  though I have found to be so dramatic is the comments from friends and family as to :-

1. How calm and relaxed I look
2. You look as though you are 10 years younger
3. My goodness how beautiful your complexion is
4. You look sort of serene
5. Your skin has that dewy look

Many women (when I was visiting family gave me that querying look) as if the sensed some femininity in me.

Two of my female relations commented that I appeared to have put on weight on my bottom and hips  but that I looked slimmer .

My goddaughter asked if I was growing "man boobs"

So there is no doubt in my mind that I am reaching that male fail zone, which is quite surprising as I am only on a low dose not a transition dose.
Judith

[big kim]

I'm 57 I started HRT 25 years ago and often thought to be late 30s/mid 40s. I had the best of both worlds getting served in bars at 15(I went from Billy no mates to the most popular kid in my year at school when they found I could buy alcohol) to a young looking late 50s. I did start going grey at 18 though and HRT did lighten my hair a lot