hey! I'm Keaton and I'm a bi trans guy who's almost 20. It's been 4 years since I came out to my family as trans and this past winter my parents finally began supporting me. Problem today is that I have chronically painful mensturation to the point of throwing up and the works, and it's doubled by the dysphoria it causes me. T will stop those, but I probably won't get on T for another year or so, just because I haven't even started the process yet. The other night my mom suggested going on birth control. She figured it would not only stop the whole thing and remove that pain and dysphoric obstacle for me, but also just make me feel more at peace knowing that even though I'll never have any type of sex that could get me pregnant, I'll just be a guy who can't anyway.
She suggested progesterone birth control because it's supposedly more effective than estrogen birth control. I tried doing some research, but obviously most resources are speaking to cis women and aren't mentioning my major concerns, like will it raise my estrogen levels, pike my dysphoria or make features anymore feminine, cause swelling/baby face me, etc. I like the idea of being on a control until and even still once I start T but i'm nervous about the effects it might have on me emotionally or physically that could in reality not help my dysphoria a ton either
Is anybody on progesterone birth control? Or estrogen based ones? What's the difference? Do they have effects a trans kid should know about, that they wouldn't mention necessarily because it wouldn't matter to a cis woman? Thanks a lot