birdwing

Injections are sadly not an option, with DIY it is. I dislike needles and want to avoid the liver risk, and my skin is rather sensitive (so no patches, though those are an option), so maybe I should look into gel, then.

I upped my dose after the last measurement, so I'll get a new blood test asap. Once I get the results, I'll check if the levels are in better ranges. If not, I'll try upping to four doses myself, split into two moments a day.

The next blood test is in mid-April. If by then the results are still low, I'll switch to gel.

Is that a good idea?

They actually upped it after that last recorded level checkup! Back then I took 2 doses, they recommended 3 after they saw it was low.

Ok, so the results are here. Last measure was August (yeah, oops... I got ill around the time I was supposed to have my next test and prolonged it).

Just before starting (March), I had 125 pmol/L for estradiol, and free T was 358.9.By August, I had 175 pmol/L for estradiol, and free T was 30.5.

Pinging @dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone as well for this!

wait, Secrid is Dutch?

Bought clothes made in Portugal.

I've been all of them, the reading arc was the most fun one.

heh - slight laughhehe - mischieveoushehehe - genuine laughhehehehe - Lois, this is Family Guy

Once I'm home (in about 2.5 hours) I'm gonna look for the blood levels. I have the results there.

also, in case you're still curious for hrt methods, here's a guide will & me wrote up!

Viel Erfolg und Glück from your western neighbour!

Lenzetto spray, 3 doses a day, once a day. Never skipped a day.

Blood levels, not sure. Next test will be in two months, though I think I should get it much sooner (last was many months ago).

I take antiboyotics, last jab was one month ago. I get them every two to three months.

Doubt it, none of them have done so. My mum does have body hair but it's mainly on the legs. Dad has some on the arms.

My arms actually used to be much less hairy. Pre-E they were, by lack of a better word, gently haired. After E the hairs started to be less noticeable between 6-10 months, but now they seem more noticeable.

Source?

edit: nvm, see a few comments down below. i was too impatient.

Frankly, I actually considered this.

edit: random comment but im happy, i encountered a cis gal who was like 1.95 m tall. makes me feel better about being tall too!

Had a really good lunch, the sun's finally shining after months of barely any. Yay

Born 1945, there's a chance.

Afaik not but there's speech therapy and adam's apple reduction (especially good in South Korea).

Something I feel many don't realise, is that while being trans and having gender dysphoria/euphoria is something that has occurred across cultures and times, the medical means to treat dysphoria and/or give euphoria are pretty new.

We have the Indian hijra, the Roman gallī priests, heathen tale of crossdressing and masculine pregnancy, as well Hawai'i mahu. But before the 1920s, if you wanted HRT, your best bet would bet castration through removal of your ovaries, and consuming filtered pregnant horse piss (estrogen) or bull/dog testes extract (testosterone). Or food with higher natural rates of those hormones, but that's nowhere near as effective.

It's only by the 1920s that modern HRT became a thing. People often think of Stonewall as being the cataclyst for modern sexual liberation, and they wouldn't be wrong, but there was a lot of progress even before that, and people who fought for our rights.

There are earlier queer examples and activists, like Rolandina Roncaglia, a Venetian woman who was murdered in 1354. She was likely a transgender woman, and was largely accepted in Venice, but got ratted out on after 7 years. Or take Katherina Hetzeldorfer, murdered 1477, for being a crossdressing lesbian. And Jan Egberts, in 1731, who together with like a dozen people, was murdered at 19 for sodomy. He corrected his age when the judge incorrectly listed it in the sentence, and bowed saying, "It's all right, sir", before leaving. Madlad. Queer activists are awesome.

And yes, by 1831, there was Heinrich Hössli, who spoke out favourably for consensual same-sex love, while Karl Heinrich Ulrichs spoke out for his own gayness in the 1860s. He managed to convince some people for his cause.

But I feel that Hirschfield had affected the world for the better the most. Thanks to him, people like Karl M. Baer, got the first modern gender-affirming change surgery in 1906(!), and Alan L. Hart, could be the first to undergo masculinising HRT by the 1920s. Or take Toni Ebel, Charlotte Charlaque and Dora Richter. They were the first to undergo feminising surgery, and Christine Jorgensen, although not the first, is the most widely early example of feminising HRT, in 1950.

His incredible work for queers began in 1896. He'd visited Chicago in 1892, and noticed how their homosexual subculture was similar to that of Berlin. He got reading about those. In 1894, he had established a naturopathic practice, and was struck by how many gay patients were depressed due to the repression, and wanted to give them a reason to live. He was affected by Oscar Wilde's trial, and in 1896, a gay lieutenant he was treating for depression, took his life and wrote an extensive note to him. That kickstarted his activism.

He introduced transvestite passes so people wouldn't get punished for crossdressing, started research for HRT, fought for intersex rights and everything. If I could travel back into time and speak to anyone, I would choose Hirschfield everytime and tell him how advanced society has become for us, and thank him. Such a great man. I know he would be tearful with joy.

There should be a statue for this man. The archives should be restored.

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Concerns about arm hair growth

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Concerns about arm hair growth

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