Mine havnt started but I'm just curious.

I saw this some of this by about month 4-5 and i think partially my concentration on a more feminine walk contributed to it. I felt soreness and definite change. My partner says my walk has completely changed this year.

I might be wrong but I didn't think hormones effected your gait. I thought it was something you had to learn!

It better be, I've been trying hard to get a good girl walk down!

It's happening now at my six month mark. With the rotation + the weight gain in the bum / hips area, I think I could use my backside as a mobile shelf

Quote from: Frae on January 13, 2016, 03:35:36 PM
I might be wrong but I didn't think hormones effected your gait. I thought it was something you had to learn!

It better be, I've been trying hard to get a good girl walk down!

You're right, they don't.

Mine have and my walk has changed without me trying to... my butt is bigger by far and I notice I do walk differently

Im at 6 months

it started to happen about 2 week ago for me.  I had terrible pain( still have sometimes) and i made a thread about pelvic tilt pain.    I clearly see the tilts of my pelvic bones now

I think it was around 3-4 months, when I started to have enough fat rounding out my butt and thighs/hips that I did actually begin to walk differently. I eventually lost about an inch in height because of how my lower back curves more now and my hips are tilted more.

Is hip rotation age based?  What happens and why?

a few months in, friend noticed it

Your gait does not change i think but your attempts at walking different i believe at east in my case, made the minor pain in hips more noticeable. There were definitely some changes going on down there.

The idea is that your tendons in your back and abdomen, which hold you hips in place front to back, change which rotates the hip forward.  No one is claiming bone change.

I think it does change and I noticed things changing around 6 months or so.  I run and it changed my gait slightly.

However, I cannot find any hard evidence if i happens or not.  There is a wiki article that says it does, and lots of people saying it, but nothing medical to back it up.

Also no evidence, but I feel like that sort of stuff has changed quite a bit for me at about 3.5 months. It could just be that I get tired way more easily, but I feel shorter and that and my stride length has shortened quite a bit as well, so walking takes even more effort than it did before as I have to take more steps to cover the same ground. And it feels different in the hip area, like there's a lot more movement, not sure how to describe it. Instead of my walk being centered like "|" my hips are doing like \ / \ / \ /, alternating with each step. As I'm still ostensibly presenting as male though I feel pretty self conscious about it whenever I'm walking (which is a lot!).

Could all just be my imagination and everyone walks like that and I just happened to become aware of that sensation recently or I've always walked like that or something, who knows. My gf told me I run like a girl back around Thanksgiving, but who knows if that's a recent development either. I refuse to take scientific measurements for changes though because I like the placebo effect HRT has on me if that's truly all that's going on. And if it's not that's cool too

Quote from: jessical on January 13, 2016, 10:23:58 PM
The idea is that your tendons in your back and abdomen, which hold you hips in place front to back, change which rotates the hip forward.  No one is claiming bone change.

I think it does change and I noticed things changing around 6 months or so.  I run and it changed my gait slightly.

However, I cannot find any hard evidence if i happens or not.  There is a wiki article that says it does, and lots of people saying it, but nothing medical to back it up.

I claim bone changes. I gained inches in my hips after about 4 months, without any weight gain.

I don't think the hormones have much effect on it directly, if any at all. It's probably entirely to do with decreases in muscle strength and such. Bone changes are probably not caused by hormones either, but rather a change in the stressors on them. The human body is extremely adaptable in those ways.

I cant say for sure what changed, when I started my transition 6-7 months ago, I also started dancing, alot. I incorporate lots of heavy hip and core gyration and stretching in my dancing. I also started squats and leg/hip/butt exercises. My hips have widened, my butt has gotten BIG, I have lost 2 inches in height and the last couple weeks I notice my walk feels different with more sway. Im not "fully out" so I do not practice a girl walk but I feel it happening anyway. I cant speak for pain, because although I had alot of it...was it from the exercises or both? Ill also say Im not on a typical HRT regimen as many of you are, but I am on something and I do see many typical HRT changes.

So what does all that mean? 

Quote from: Lady_Oracle on January 14, 2016, 04:22:04 AM
I claim bone changes. I gained inches in my hips after about 4 months, without any weight gain.

Like you, i have definitely gained inches on my butt and my hips from hormones. I have pleasantly amazed at that.

I honestly can't remember but my hips were pretty much always that way. Weird.

I didn't notice it until around the 4-6 month mark. I could feel it in my thighs and pelvis every time I went for walks.