Quote from: insideontheoutside on February 15, 2013, 09:27:17 PM

Quote from: spacerace on February 15, 2013, 07:49:37 AM
I think it is really good that people share their unique experiences with how they feel about their gender and their own goals about transition, like what you have done in this thread. There is a certainly a dominant trans narrative and course of action that gets perpetuated, when in reality each one of us has our own feelings and situations. When someone shares their own story, it can maybe make people feel more comfortable about their own narratives.

Thanks

Quote from: Not-so Fat Admin on February 15, 2013, 02:15:57 PM
On a related note:
I don't think genital growth or body hair would prevent living as a woman. But if you end up with a bass voice, it would be difficult. My voice didn't get too deep. I could maybe still live as a woman with it if I could undo everything else. But I've heard guys for whom this isn't the case.

I've already got genital growth probably comparable to a guy who's been on T for a number of years. But that's just how I am naturally. If it could bigger though that would be great (and I'm really not a size queen but if I just had a little more I think it would give me a total ego boost). My voice right now I've had some people say is "teenage male" to lower range of female.

Of course in my case being "misgendered" as a dude would be fine with me (and would make me secretly smile because it'd actually be correct, unbeknownst to most people). As long as my ID pics still looked like me I'd probably be fine in most situations. I already go out of my way to find unisex bathrooms when out and about, but I don't have a problem using the women's (some women have had a problem with me, depending on how I'm looking). For the most part, me looking how I do or even a bit more male wouldn't have a huge effect on the outside world, just make me that much more comfortable in my own skin.

Oh, I figured that. I remember your situation. I was just pointing out that some people trying out T may get more than they bargained for.

Oh yeah that's true. I would'nt recommend anyone who's either still in the uncertain/questioning phase just run out and get on T or even anyone who thinks T is the magical elixir that will fix all their problems. Hormones are some of the most powerful substances in the body (and likewise some of the most powerful you can put in the body). There's so much range in what can happen, good and bad, wanted and unwanted. So far I've had the experience of seeing what unbalanced levels of every hormone can do to me personally. I can only stary so far from my own personal baseline before I feel like crap. But the only way I've learned this is through doctors giving me stuff I didn't really want or through my own doctor-guided experimentation.