Quote from: rejennyrated on September 30, 2010, 02:58:57 AM
Possibly the only two things I know of that have some effect short of full medical HRT are drinking Spearmint tea, which is actually a pretty effective anti androgen and indeed a potential preventer of male pattern baldness and eating soya and/or taking soya supplements. Soya contains phytoestrogens. On their own they are NOT strong enough to feminise, but they are known to reduce some of the effects of aging particularly on the skin, and in some tests there were shown to reduce male fertility because of the estrogenic effect.
I tried that and neither of them work Jenny for the purposes we want. Don't sell placebo effect It's only LOOSELY shown to have slight estrogenic effects in kids. And adult male with huge amounts of T in there system no chance.
I tried begin pragmatic with my feelings of dysphora throughout my teenage years and compromising one way or another. There were many ways I did this was
dressing kinda androgynously until I hated my body too much at which point I wore baggy genderless dark clothes so I didn't have to experience the horror of my body. It helps when you don't want to be aware of your body.
I also grew my hair long which helped somewhat but the anxiety of male pattern baldness is always there depending on how old you are. It was an effective outlet.
Removing your body hair through epilation although painful it helped me a small amount.
I tried to put off my feelings by intentionally making myself massively busy with work then saved up the money incase I couldn't hold on anymore this act of saving up gives you an option and relives some anxiety.
It helps if you don't put on any faux male personality stuff and be more open with your feelings although sometimes it can backfire when a friend says "You would have been such a good woman"
ouch.
The other thing I tried somewhat unsuccessfully was to permanently remove my facial hair it was too hard with T in my system however and was soul crushing.
An effective thing would have been to get an Orchidectomy although the stupidity of the system removes most forms of informed consent. There used to be a doctor who did do this on informed consent. I failed in this quest personally although I could have gelded myself if I'd found someone else to operate the clamps XD
I should point out that alot of these are only marginally effective they took an edge off but my pain got worse and worse and of course based on my avatar photo, pragmatism in my case eventually failed catastrophically.