If you are transgender/transfeminine which labs should your doctor order to monitor levels, or if you are DIY/no insurance, how do you get them, and how much does it cost? Dr. William Powers has this list posted in his wiki: 4021 – ESTRADIOL 10231 – COMPREHENSIVE METABOLIC PANEL 6399 – CBC (INCLUDES DIFF/PLT) 745 – […]
Category: HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy)
How long does Feminization actually take? Are you stunted?
When reading about how long fat changes take once HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) begins (Estradiol, or E2), you’ll find the scale of months or years; both anecdotally and on Wikipedia: 1. Transgender hormone therapy (male-to-female) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_hormone_therapy_(male-to-female) Effect Time to expectedonset of effect[a] Time to expectedmaximum effect[a][b] Permanency if hormonetherapy is stopped Breast development and nipple/areolar enlargement 2–6 months […]
Signs of Gender Dysphoria can be different for everyone.
My depersonalization was very bad and my depression was more or less life long – since about age 10. My trans-sister came out when she was age 27 and I was just baffled… simply baffled. You don’t feel like your gender? You cross dress? I literally had to see a photo of her dressed in […]
Estradiol impact on Autism Spectrum Disorder, Empathy, and Depersonalization
When I started investigating depersonalization I ran into this medium.com article: Depersonalization in gender dysphoria: widespread and widely unrecognized https://medium.com/@zinniajones/depersonalization-in-gender-dysphoria-widespread-and-widely-unrecognized-baaac395bcb0 Cool… I was in a dark place and my depersonalization I realized was sky high. Was it always this bad? I felt like my body was a stranger’s body and I was stuck inside of […]
What are the best Antiandrogens? Limited studies exist.
When I asked my Doctor about whether Spironolactone actually worked, he said it worked well for some people. I mentioned the lack of consensus in studies about efficacy and he simply stated that antiandrogen studies were very limited and pointed to this reference: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/cen.14329 5 | CONCLUSIONAntiandrogens are frequently added to estradiol to assist withfeminization and suppression […]
Maximum Transfeminine breast development. What is the hard evidence?
A question that comes up often is whether high Estradiol, early Progesterone, or early/high Spironolactone may stunt or limit good breast development. There are limited studies on this topic; however, here are some resources to help shed some light: 1. High Estradiol Gender Analysis has a citation for high Estradiol and resultant poor breast development. […]
Your first steps to being Trans. How to get started.
You did some introspection and realized you might be trans. Maybe you want to try micro dosing or full dosing hormones to discover more about yourself; but, what are the first steps? 1. Thinking out loud If you have a therapist, gender therapist, or psychologist, you should probably tell them your feelings and see what […]
Male to Female Hip Widening, what options really exist?
So you finally began to transition and it’s too late for any substantial bone development changes to occur. (after age 25) What can you do to widen your hips? Listed here from research and novel thinking is a list of realistic and totally speculative/impractical findings: 1. Before age 25 hip widening may happen via HRT […]
Plume: legitimate or a scam? A full review and rating of the service.
GetPlume.co has gotten a lot of attention and is increasingly popular due to the convenience of telehealth – especially during the 2020 Pandemic. Around the web you’ll find a lot of questions about the legitimacy, limits, and process. Much of this is covered on the Plume website, but I’ll be coming at this review with […]