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Important take.

As a t boy testosterone IS making me irate, it is making my ADHD worse because estrogen is a neuroprotective and I now have less of that. However, I also hated progesterone which is dominant for like half the menstrual cycle and made me depressed and listless, so either way you're going to have some unfun experiences if your brain was jacked up to begin with.

Also, transition puts you thru a second puberty which is just going to be difficult.

My need to look like "myself" outweighs the benefits of estrogen for me even tho I am hating how I feel some days. People have the right to weigh their options and do what's best for them. And as you say re: bioessentialism, hormones actually affect everyone differently. Testosterone and estrogen serve a lot of the same functions in the body and are not diametrically opposed.

I think it's so relatable to see trans women and transfem and generally people who no longer have a testosterone-dominant system describing what it was like to have a testosterone-dominant system. I find that often, when they talk about being angry, depressed, irate, or just irritable, I relate because that was me before I went on testosterone. I was so fucking angry and irate and genuinely unpleasant to exist around because I didn't have testosterone.

See, I think instead of estrogen or testosterone being the "bad, angry" hormone, it's more like... of course trans people who need hormones are going to be unpleasant before getting hormones - both your body and your brain require that you have a certain level of hormone balance. Of course somebody like me was fucking furious all the time, the brain does weird shit when its needs aren't fulfilled!

This isn't about criticizing any one group of trans people, rather, I encourage people to remember that ascribing inherent qualities to certain traits (e.g., saying "estrogen is such a horrible hormone!") isn't necessarily good. It's absolutely fine to talk about personal experiences with pre-transition, I do that all the time! The only issue is bioessentializing hormones, in essence, ascribing inherentness to traits we often share.

#hrt #testosterone #estrogen #progesterone

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Releasing the boy who did not exist

#my dog had a happy fit about it lol #op #gpoy

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The boy who didn't get to exist

Has wrapped bloody knuckles

A boxer's body

And a shaved head

He's pale and doesn't look like me

Though the ribbed tank top looks like

What it was supposed to look like on me

My wide hips

My soft arms

Are wrong

The boy who didn't get to exist

Is roaming abandoned buildings

Like that scene in Fight Club

Punching walls and waiting for the plaster to fall

He is also the fake one, hallucination

Or is he?

He is the one who wants to kill me today

By doing toxically masculine shit

He wants to punch the mirror

And reopen the wounds on his knuckles

He wants to drag a shaving razor across my throat

And laugh while it bleeds

He wants to hit the base of my neck with the weight

That is shackled to his ankle

Who put the weight there?

Was it the wife who was told she was too honest?

Was it the girlboss who was told to smile more?

Was it the teenage girl being slutshamed for her friendships with boys?

Was it the little girl who was afraid of men?

Was it me?

Was it un-me?

Which me is fake?

(Cycling)

You know who he looks like?

Eminem

I've always hated his music

Because it is abusive to women

We don't talk about

The abuse that is done to boys

Who don't get to exist

I need to love him to release him

Trust him enough to take off the shackle

I am honest

I piss people off

When I let myself speak

So I usually don't

I can't fake a smile

Though I bare my teeth when I'm angry

I am still afraid of getting in trouble for talking to boys

I am still afraid of most men

I don't think I did anything wrong

He crosses his hands over his chest

Pink and wingéd one

Evanescing into the sky

Was he a guardian angel?

What's left is a little boy

Who looks like my brother

I have seen this child before

I will make him mac and cheese

And let him drink root beer and watch cartoons

Until he grows up

I am sorry

I am sorry

I am not the one who should apologize

But I am the adult who is here

I threw the weight in the ocean

But the boy who didn't exist will come back to haunt me

Next time I don't let myself speak

Or throw myself on the floor for someone who didn't ask me to

He already says he hates me

#poetry #dysphoria #suicidal ideation #inner teen #transmasc #trans man #op #my poetry

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Today's gender is sunning the pasty right side of my forehead specifically

#gpoy #the frecks are comin out tho they cute #op

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My phone made me this transition timeline lol. Did my jowls get jowlier or am I just using the backfacing camera? (And making a sad face at my former self who felt briefly happy after their first self-haircut)

#went from confident dyke to snervous faggot reaal fast #my long hair was so pretty tbh #i wanna grow it out again & cut it off & turn it into a wig 😂 #former genders #gpoy #transition timeline #ftm hrt

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girl who constantly feels like they're in trouble and did something wrong

#former genders #PLS

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Today's gender is: can't tell if I like my hair cuz it's pretty or if it's pissing me the fuck off

I swear testosterone is making it thicker and curlier like when I was a teenager. The cowlicks in the back are... Bad

#gpoy #op #tboy #transmasc #ftm hrt

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#it do be like this 🤣🤣 #masculinity #femininity #cis genders

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[ID: the meme of a young Japanese girl holding up a frog in both hands with the caption "The evil is defeated" with an additional caption on top reading "When you have PMDD and your period finally starts." End ID]

#WAITING #for a brain that doesn't want to die & cry all the time #menstruation

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Me @ my dept head: um yeah I took on all these responsibilities when my body was estrogen-dominant?? I am a severely adhd HIMBO now who cannot even listen to music and read an email at the same time. Please pay me MORE to do LESS (like you do my cis male coworkers 😤) I am no longer fit to be a #Girlboss, thanks

#i hope this email finds you screaming in hell #former genders #girlboss #trans man #transmasc #ftm hrt #male privilege #i would like it to kick in someday 😂

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Jake Wesley Rogers - Lavender Forever

#this might be the gender #tho i will never twink this twunkily #😂 #music #op #current gender #flower boi #sticky sticky fingers for life #Youtube

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here’s to all the weird little girls growing up into even weirder men

#always rb #former genders #weird gender

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Today's gender is

My own autistic grandpa working on projects alone in the basement

My coworker is a bag of aspirational dirt

#gpoy #op #at least i look hot in a henley

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Today's former gender is

This shirt my wife convinced me to wear on our honeymoon & at least one anniversary even tho I HATED it

#she wouldn't let me throw it out either #TRASH #actually it was my responsibility to say no and i didnt #no more bending to other ppls will when it doesn't matxh mine #former genders #op #gpoy

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Yesterday's gender was

1. I think my inner child dressed me when I was high (am I a bumblebee? 😂)

2. Holy shit I look like an entire man

#being trans is disorienting 🤣 #gpoy #op

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POV: you're watching the drag king Scooby Doo Bonnie Tyler mashup no one asked for

#i want to do silly “drag” again #himbo #pretend genders #altho T is making me adhd and TERRIBLE at multitasking so kind of 🙄 #drag #tiktok

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BLINKIE SET #54 . . . GENDER PARTY

#might be 9 of these genders #abyssgender #horrorgender #corpsegender #multigender #genderless #genderfunny #transmasc #bigender #werewolfgender #gender examples