Interestingly enough, getting T for me has suddenly gotten more difficult as well and I’m not trans. I can’t even pay for it with my FSA/HSA. It must come out of pocket and I can’t get it reimbursed.
While it’s not exactly the same, just like my trans brothers and sisters, I too have issues with depression etc. when not being treated properly for hormone deficiencies. I feel so many people’s pain where this is concerned, as I was suicidal prior to treatment.
Hi Rey - glad to see you’re back among the posting and inviting ppl who aren’t trans to ask questions. I’m a 68yr old intersex, gay, man born with ambiguous genitals and who was still finding anatomical parts we (my docs and me) didn’t know I had when I was 44. After that we stopped bothering to look because the tech is great now. I don’t have any fertility- which was pretty much known by the time I was 4. So it was assumed I would need adult hormones just to have puberty. Puberty isn’t optional- you get very sick if you’re born a eunuch and don’t get at least testosterone or estrogen. Now they start kids at the age of 10. Unless they are arguing with their “sex assignment”. In that case they get neglect at best and medical abuse at worst in the hope they will become so hopeless they’ll just commit suicide but you know better than me. Okay - set up for the question. I have a long list but we’ll start with one. My body’s genitals and organs are male-ish. My secondary sex characteristics are male. I went from the androgyny of childhood to male puberty via testosterone injections because I have no testicles. I recently met a mtf trans woman - early 20’s whose first and only surgery was facial. She proudly shows before and after pics and she was smart!! She had gorilla worthy brow ridges before her surgery and her plastic surgeon did wonders for her. Before she had completely healed (it takes a full year) she was no longer being mistaken for male/man. I remember looking like I was 10yrs old including a lost growth spurt I never did have - when I was 15yrs old. At 25 I finally looked 15 and I was 40 before I didn’t get “carded” in bars and buying alcohol. My question for you is, “What male-indication surgery did you consider? What did you settle on? Were you being mistaken for being female before that surgery- and did it help?” Thanks.
I don’t have any questions, I’m just an old lady bisexual who appreciates our trans brothers and sisters. So glad you are here.
I had an appointment with a Queer clinic. Then Donald erased the T. He pulled Testosterone out of my grasp. I am in mourning. I have no other words.
Interestingly enough, getting T for me has suddenly gotten more difficult as well and I’m not trans. I can’t even pay for it with my FSA/HSA. It must come out of pocket and I can’t get it reimbursed.
While it’s not exactly the same, just like my trans brothers and sisters, I too have issues with depression etc. when not being treated properly for hormone deficiencies. I feel so many people’s pain where this is concerned, as I was suicidal prior to treatment.
🫂❤️❤️ I am happy you are here, friend.
Hi Rey - glad to see you’re back among the posting and inviting ppl who aren’t trans to ask questions. I’m a 68yr old intersex, gay, man born with ambiguous genitals and who was still finding anatomical parts we (my docs and me) didn’t know I had when I was 44. After that we stopped bothering to look because the tech is great now. I don’t have any fertility- which was pretty much known by the time I was 4. So it was assumed I would need adult hormones just to have puberty. Puberty isn’t optional- you get very sick if you’re born a eunuch and don’t get at least testosterone or estrogen. Now they start kids at the age of 10. Unless they are arguing with their “sex assignment”. In that case they get neglect at best and medical abuse at worst in the hope they will become so hopeless they’ll just commit suicide but you know better than me. Okay - set up for the question. I have a long list but we’ll start with one. My body’s genitals and organs are male-ish. My secondary sex characteristics are male. I went from the androgyny of childhood to male puberty via testosterone injections because I have no testicles. I recently met a mtf trans woman - early 20’s whose first and only surgery was facial. She proudly shows before and after pics and she was smart!! She had gorilla worthy brow ridges before her surgery and her plastic surgeon did wonders for her. Before she had completely healed (it takes a full year) she was no longer being mistaken for male/man. I remember looking like I was 10yrs old including a lost growth spurt I never did have - when I was 15yrs old. At 25 I finally looked 15 and I was 40 before I didn’t get “carded” in bars and buying alcohol. My question for you is, “What male-indication surgery did you consider? What did you settle on? Were you being mistaken for being female before that surgery- and did it help?” Thanks.