Hello all, I am curious as to how undergoing male to female hormone replacement therapy effects body hair. Thank you and have a great day.

It has made most of mine disappear.  I can go months between shaving my legs before it becomes visible.  On my chest I think it may have disappeared entirely.


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What about facial hair?

Estrogen doesn't effect facial hair for the most part, that's why electrolysis and laser removal are sort of a necessity for some women, myself included. Typically it takes around three years of electrolysis to remove facial hair.

Your body hair is effected within the first year of hormones usually, making it thinner sparser in general. I have found that using laser treatments for my back and chest early in my HRT completely got rid of the body hair I couldn't live with. My arms and legs are much less hairy than they once were, partly due to semi regular home laser treatment, and hormones.


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A lot of it will depend on how hairy you are to begin with - if you have a lot of dark, thick, coarse body hair I'd suggest that HRT alone won't do the trick. You may want to think about a bit of laser treatment and/or full body waxing to help thin it out a bit.

As Katie said, it has minimal effect on facial hair - laser or electrolysis is the only way you're getting rid of it permanently.

Mine is mostly gone now when it comes to body hair. It has slowed down the facial hair, but hasn't gotten rid of it. I have steeled needed hair removal to achieve a hair free face. Hugs
Mariah

Mine has thinned out greatly at 1 year on HRT but kind of slow for my liking. I've been waxing and using a rotary epilator

I have been on hormone therapy for 8 months.
The effects of hormones concerning hair started early and quickly.
The body hair became softer and finer. Regrowth after shaving it off was very slow and has now virtually stopped.
The arms and legs were about the same but the hair has not come back on the fingers, hands, toes and feet.
Chest hair, which is a form of pubic hair, so consequently courser is very slow to regrow.
I started laser hair removal for the face a year ago, had 6 or 7 sessions at which point the dark hair was all but gone.
I then switched to the 'blended system' of electrolysis. Be certain you are using this one because it is the best and most effective and safe for your skin method of facial hair removal.
I have had 40, hour long sessions with and average of 175 hairs removed. I feel as though I may be about half way into the process with mostly my chin and neck to still do. The rest of my face has very little hair regrown and it takes about three days until shaving those areas is needed. It took one year to get to this point with about half the hair gone. Neck areas tend to be slower work because the skin is loose and the technician has to stretch the skin more often which prolongs the time needed to treat each hair.
Bottom line, you will always need a hair removal process for the beard which is the hardest to remove. Some people like myself who have fair hair may not need or choose to have hair removal other than shaving for the rest of the body.
Hormones do have an effect but sadly not on the beard.
Best of luck with everything you choose to do.
xxx