TRANSGENDER MALE TO FEMALE TRANSITION TIMELINE | 5 YEAR HRT UPDATE | (WHAT IS A WOMAN?)
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2023
- I started HRT in February of 2018 and this is a video detailing some of those changes - the good, the bad and the surprises. The hardest thing has been navigating other people's expectations and the internalized Transphobia therein. I hope this helps.
In this video I, as a transgender woman, shares my experiences of being on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for five years. I talk about the physical changes I've experienced and emphasizes the importance of lived experiences and navigating societal expectations.
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💊 This is my experience of being on HRT for five years and the physical changes she's undergone, such as fat redistribution and breast growth and yours might be different.
🙋♀️ Transgender women are not "trapped in a man's body" but are women, and that navigating societal expectations and perceptions is a common experience shared with cisgender women.
🤔 Starting the journey of transitioning can be scary but, if you jump in and begin anyway, it will be worth it,
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Thank you, Kate, for sharing your honest and concise 5-year transition overview! We share some key communalities, but there are differences too. I'm also at the 5-year HRT milestone, about to turn 65. I could not imagine transitioning 10 years ago. Beginning with therapy, however, I realized that I was in denial for most of my life. I was very unhappy and often angry with the ones in my life that I loved most. I was living my life for others. I was an appeaser fixated on making others, but not me, happy. Despite ongoing challenges in my personal and familial life, I am now incredibly happier living my truth as my authentic self.
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Thank you, thank you Kate! I am four months into HRT and feeling so many of the things your are describing. Your encouragement is so helpful. Yes, patience and acceptance. Just knowing I have come to terms with being trans makes it worth it. Becoming yourself is the corner stone. When I become discouraged with the transition, I come back to that idea. You are providing me with hope I can realize some dreams. It means so much to come to terms with your authentic self. Yes, despite success, and I had it too, something was missing. Thank you for helping with understanding and feeling about what it takes to lead a complete life.
Good luck, enjoy the ride 🏳️⚧️🙂
Thank you for being here Kate, I love your openness.
Hugs,
Thanks for your kind comment.
Kate, this video is beautiful, you have blossomed and grown so much since I met you and seeing the peace in your eyes as you describe your experiences and where you are now is so lovely to watch. I’m so glad we met and that I have been able to follow you on this journey and call you my friend. here’s to life🥂 I am glad you are still with us ❤
I am so grateful for your friendship and support. 🙂💖
Having the opinions and information from an older person for me is great! I am 52 and jumping through the hoops.
I love it!
Thanks for watching, good luck with the hoop jumping ☺️
Kate, thanks for this video. Its very supportive.
I hope someday I will be able to start my transition.
I hope someday soon. Good luck. 🏳️⚧️🙏🏻
Thanks so much for your videos, especially this one. I am older than you, but starting my journey. I’m trying to resist, but know I’m ultimately not going to be able to. I appreciate you, thanks so much!
Thanks for watching 😊
I intended to guy mode forever on HRT. I had just a casual plan for it, just dig into my bigger wardrobe should anything physical happen. Soreness while running ~2-3 months necessitated a sports bra, which annoyed me but was better than holding my arm across my chest. Just had to slowly stop wearing anything too light and anything too small.
I wasn't expecting public perception to shift. That... was validating... but increasingly scary. Oh, it's cute that they're not automatically giving me the bill any more, or that women on transit are invading my space, or that the server spoke out her inner monologue she had before coming to the table with "she" for my pronoun.
But... getting treated as a spectacle in the men's bathroom until I felt too uncomfortable to go in at the same time even jeans and a T-shirt was getting "hello, ladies" with consistency when out and about with my wife. Ended up really having to plan what I might have to do.
It was scary as hell, but I'm glad it forced me to deal with all this.
I really thought it was going to go worse than it did. I was expecting people to be put out, annoyed, not contemplative and supportive like they were.
Hitting five years this July myself.
Lots of things I found out. Lab levels change profoundly on HRT. Things don't stop changing at two years, three years, four years. This stuff feels profoundly biological at heart, especially when I could feel that part of my brain apparently on ice waking up in this "second adolescence" (and... it's a little annoying tbh)
And also... looking back, so much of my life now makes SENSE cast from the POV of a girl who couldn't be herself for some reason or another.
As much as people think because of all the stuff we do that this is artifice, disguise, fakery, I have to say internally that it is the opposite. I could feel the masking and coping mechanisms I adopted as a kid to avoid the bullies (children and adult) actually falling away, background "this isn't right" noise - some of which I didn't know was there until it was gone - went quiet.
It's too bad in some ways I skipped out on transition after getting so close between 1996-2000. But... honestly, I needed the crisis. And I did get a chance at a family I might not otherwise have, in a lightning strike of a chance.
This was the second best time to plant a tree, for sure ❤❤
Thanks again for the video, Kate.
I transitioned during the Dark Ages when I was in early 20s. After a long professional career I am now retired living comfortably. I never regretted transitioning. The not regret is that I should have done it sooner, much earlier in my life.
I play the Sliding Doors game in my head and I always come back to the experiences I would have missed out on and am grateful for my children who made the first 40 years worth it. 🙂
It has been just over a year for me and I’m trying but I feel so much better
Awesome! I love that for you. 🏳️⚧️
I started at 55. Probably too late. Body is starting to fall apart and adding GAHT and surgeries is tough. Stating at this age the changes are minimal. It’s so disappointing. Been on GAHT six years
I mean, you look good in your profile ❤
I know sometimes, too, as an older gal, I've had the doctor reduce my dose just because I'm old, which is not right. I reserve the right to put my thumb on the scales for lab work if he pushes any harder.
I had patches completely fail on me (I didn't realize how hard until I saw my baselines) at around 11 months and glad I was able to get switched to pills.
Some gals convert the pills to E1 (estrone) by liver action and it doesn't work so well - they do better with injections or sublingual.
I was given progesterone as my doc believed it would help me not turn into the giant blood clot he thought I might 🙄 but that did help round out some other development for me, including breast development and it can develop the mons pubis as well.
I hope it's been worth it in other ways! ❤
I know I was just happy to divert the pathway into old age away from the picture that was being painted by all the targeted social media ads.
Simply way I can express my self. Is I am just going through with gender change now at 55 I should have done it years ago. My ex I would get jealous if she had her periods wishing it was me 🏴👍