I find that hard to believe. Did you start HRT at 23? Non-binary people are often jealous that hard-wired trans folks have everything all figured out when they start. I have to keep returning to baseline and then I end up focusing on transfeminine androgyny.
So just stay on estrogen for your hair and don't do anything else? Worst case you'll look like a younger male with gyno, best case, well you might get better results than you believe possible right now.
I am really confused. How are you going to maintain those great gains?. I think I could end up passing but not as well as I want. My dysphoria (if I even have it, people say I do but I feel like I don't) isn't that bad. I'm not one of those people who need to become hot 10/10s to consider it a success but I don't think I could even reach 5/10.
I'll probably crack again in a few years and hate myself for losing time on HRT but those are worries for future me
I know I have some level of dysphoria, but it's also not too bad. I have little social dysphoria and no dysphoria at all over my privates. But even with such mild dysphoria compared to some other people I could no longer repress, balding and accelerating masculinization was enough to push me over the edge. Maybe I wouldn't have got on HRT now if not for this thread, but it would still come to this in the future.
I'll probably crack again in a few years and hate myself for losing time on HRT but those are worries for future me
Everyone likes to moan but what are the costs of being bald during all working years, say 23 to 70? They might be enormous and extraordinary in terms of lost sales, promotions, getting canned etc. even though there's no functional impairment otherwise. ADHD is similar. I already had my family though but I would never go back in the sense of going off HRT permanently.
I mean, your topic has been trending on here especially with me but regardless, "I am still in it for the hair". Some transfolks feel that I am sinning somehow by using HRT for not gender-compelled dysphoria but eh hair dysphoria is all but always entangled with gender dysphoria since we are saying we don't want the outcome our body gave us, i.e. being bald. I am still attracted to women and I am not compulsive about female clothing since partially I don't accept clothing conventions anyway. The thing is that I thought that dutasteride would maintain at least somewhat but then I found on page 7 of this thread stating that dutasteride was unable to halt baldness after going off HRT. Noah seemed to be doing okay but it might be highly variable.
If you had started the treatment earlier, I think you would have achieved the ideal in terms of hair. But why not have breast surgery and stay on HRT, or try HRT cycles for support?
That's also what I was saying (at least publicly) even a month back. But now I'm not going to hide it anymore, I was finally able to admit I suffer some level of dysphoria. I still don't really care much about gender roles, behaving or looking like a stereotypical girl etc. but I do have dysphoria, that's for sure. I would advise you do a lot of introspection before you are truly sure that you don't mind being a masculine man, because even when we think we have it all figured out, we might be wrong. And only then when you are 100% sure, make a decision.
With significant baldness, the results are visible faster. With a low loss of density, the results are more difficult to notice, and with NW0 with thinning hair, in theory, you may not see them at all for more than six months. I noticed the result after 2.5 months on my frontal bald patches. They were covered in fluff along the Norwood 0 line.
Yeah, @bridgeburn looked much better after only 3 months, and his baldness was similar to mine. I hope it's the same for me and I can at least grow out enough hair to hide my crap hairline in a few months.
Those are pretty high dosages which apparently work better than low-dose estradiol which is too bad in terms of seeing results without overall feminization but given the history, probably to be expected. Is there anyone still trying low dose on here or topical estrogen only?
I might add topical Minoxidil to my regimen soon.
Yeah, about the feminization thing, it's still starting to happen quite quickly in my case, even despite my large dose. It's only been two weeks and my skin is starting to look more feminine (which I really like.) and my nipples are starting to puff up, and they hurt a bit when pressing them, especially the left nipple.
It seemed to me that the physical below the neck effects of Biestro Cream came on really fast even. What you are doing is best in terms of avoiding breast growth as you might fuse the ducts quickly at those dosages and the AA probably adds to this as well. If you get big honking tits, then you have ruined another rule of thumb and displayed how much all of this is unpredictable except in terms of tendencies.
The unpredictability makes this journey even more interesting.
You might just burst into a Spice Girls replicant without warning!
Nobody believes that last sentence but in a nice way they say, Will and Janey or shall we say that they begs to differ? Cause they in the plural means both but in the singular means more or less, non-binary to most and as even the new "he" meaning use they when you don't know what's about down there.