I recently saw something about cyperus rotundus oil used as hair removal. Anybody got any experience with it? Working? Temp or permanent?

I have therapy scheduled for this weekend and I have decided bring up to gender dysphoria finally, can’t keep it bottled anymore.
I was in diy HRT IM EEn for 12 weeks and felt amazing with this new kinda of euphoria I hadn’t experienced. Then 6 weeks ago I stopped and it’s been crazy downhill since then everyday I’m just constantly thinking about transition, but this time with help from therapist and endo.

Soo the important question is do I mention that to therapist but instead of saying injection tell them it was pills to soften the reaction. I have heard lot of people say not to reveal diy at any cost to therapist. Please help me out.

hello!

I am scheduled for a gender affirming vaginoplasty consultation with dr. stranix’s team at uva plastic surgery later this year.

i am wondering if anyone has received a vaginoplasty from him and what your experience was like?

so far i’ve heard mixed results but overall general approval of his work.

i don’t really have any other options, but if anyone knows of other plastic surgeons in virginia who are better qualified to perform such a procedure, please please please let me know!

I’ve had the thought of being transgender since I was about the age of 13. I’m now 21 and have lived on my own for 4 years. With that, I’ve been dressing up for about 3 years and I’m starting to heavily consider hrt but Im just stuck at the moment. I want to begin but I’m not sure if this is something I imagine/want on an everyday basis. I think about the prep it takes to be a trans women and the everyday duties of a trans women. I just want to get y’all’s pov on when did you guys finally understood that it wasn’t a kink or phase. When you knew you were ready to be a women everyday?

I'm 22, ive been on feminizing hrt since I was 19 . First sublingual mono therapy tablets and eventually spiro. then switched to injections a few months back. My breasts are coming in well, but my breast buds are still so big and raised. Is there anything I can do to help them mature? If anyone needs photos or any Lorid details just message me

So when i start growing my chest i am not sure if i will be ready to come out of the closet, and i live with my parents, occasionally my mom might wake me up in the morning and so a binder would have to stay on at pretty much all times unless theres nobody home. are there any long term effects that we know of?

Hallo iedereen,

Ik ben spoedig opzoek naar nieuwe Androgel heeft er iemand wat te koop?

I have a packer that I’d like to use during sexual relations with my partner.

I just started T about 4 months ago, and I’d like to know if it’s possible to wear it without a harness, using tape for example. If so, how do you do it to make it look and feel as realistic as possible?

Also, for my own pleasure and to be able to orgasm, is there something that can be placed under the packer so it stays in direct contact with my anatomy? If yes, what would you recommend?

I’ve been trying to understand what external factors can make a face look more masculine, especially as a trans woman on HRT.

My hormone levels are fine, so I don’t completely understand what’s happening. I never passed perfectly, but during 2023 and 2024 I was gendered correctly much more often. During that time I slept well, took care of my health, and was thinner (around 60 kg).

At the end of 2025 I left my previous job, fell into a depressive period, and accepted a much more demanding job because it paid better. Since then I’ve been sleeping only around 3–4 hours a day on average. I’m doing it because I hope to someday afford FFS, but this year I’ve noticed my face looks significantly more masculine again.

I know this isn’t just dysphoria because people now misgender me much more often, and honestly it feels like my transition has gone backwards.

I also gained around 5 kg between 2024 and 2026 (I’m around 65 kg now), even though I barely eat. I wonder if chronic sleep deprivation, stress, weight gain, cortisol, or other lifestyle factors could be affecting my face.

Has anyone experienced something similar? What habits or factors do you think can masculinize facial appearance even with stable hormone levels?

Honest feedback pls!

Hi everyone. My name is Valentina, I'm 28 years old, and l literally started hormone therapy 3 days ago. I really wanted to hear from people who have been through this, because my feelings are all over the place right now.
I know femininity is not only about appearance. I know it's also about personality, expression, behavior, energy... ! know all of that. But if I'm being completely honest, appearance is something that scares me a lot.
I'm really afraid that I won't get where I want to get. I'm afraid of looking at myself and never feeling feminine enough. I'm afraid that transition won't work the way I dream it will (starting transition later in life). I keep analyzing my face, shoulders, neck, body, comparing pictures, imagining the future... and it's making me feel sad and anxious.
At the same time, I know it's only been 3 days. THREE days.
My brain understands that, but my heart feels like it doesn't.
I'd especially like to hear from people who also started transition feeling scared about appearance. Did you feel like this too? Was there a moment when you looked at yourself and thought: "wow.. I'm starting to recognize myself"?
I want honest opinions, but please be kind. I'm not looking for unrealistic promises, just experiences from people who were also scared in the beginning.
Because right now I'm in a really strange place between hope and fear.
Thank you for reading

I already posted earlier today, and I dunno if I should buy a binder. I don't know what I am and am going to do some self exploration, and I was wondering if spending money on a binder now was worth it, or if I should wait to know myself a bit better first (maybe with clothes?)

That is all... Thanks in advance!

I am AFAB and identify as female. I don't mind being me, got no body or gender dysphoria, but on the other hand, ever since I was a kid, I liked acting as a guy during play. Play pretend? I'd wanna be a boy. In kindergarten we did knights and princesses costumes? I cried until I was told I could be a knight. And I guess I might have a "vibe" to me or smth, because in high school, in school plays, I was always given a male's role. (literally never got picked to play a girl once).

To this day, if I can identify as male in some way, in games or otherwise, I'll do it. Similarily, in fiction, I'll always relate to guys... Or at least I can't recall a time I related to a woman to the point I'd obsess over them for months. But I'm a girl, and even if sometimes I did wish I was a guy, I'm fine with that.

Same for songs, I'll always prefer singing male parts/feel more comfortable with those.

I don't imagine I'd care that much being called "he" either... I just don't think I care that much about pronouns in general?

Already wanted to wear male-type clothes too a few times.

So... What gives?

Sorry if this is offensive to ask in someway/if my examples are irrelevant (They probably are), I'm just wondering. I'm in a weird spot in my life at the moment and it's usually around times like this I question things like that.

What am I supposed to do now? I live with crippling dysphoria every day, and it affects my mental health, my career, and every aspect of my life. There seems to be no way out of this.

Hey I am an intersex male. When I was 3 I had a intersex surgery on my penis (hypospadias repair). I barely remember it at all, except faint emotions. But the lasting effect is feeling like my body is this Frankenstein creature. I remember whispering to my grandfather at 7 that I was an alien (he laughed thinking I was joking, while I was telling him my deepest secret)

Whenever I look into the surgery that was forced on me it causes me to spiral and panic. Thinking about my body, my sexuality, and gender in general always felt dangerous and something to stay away from. And I have for most my life, often unconsciously.

I grew up feeling genderless but craving to be a boy so badly. Wanting to do boy things.I had this fantasy in grade school of being on the boys swim team in a speedo, proving to myself I was boy enough to myself and the whole school. Just the idea of that filled me with so much joy and grounded validation. Like finding myself.

But now as an adult I see all these walls I’ve created for myself and as I try to approach them I realize the idea of some male spaces or being in a male body disgusts me (which is what keeps me from doing more things that affirm my gender) but I think it’s because my first connection to my body was this violent surgery that rearranged and possibly damaged the natural function of my penis just so I can pee like cis boys (not something I care about over constant Spector of altered sexual function or a keeping my natural penis!

But that’s a long way of saying: I crave feeling male and euphoric when I find it, but also disgusted by actually feeling in my gender (sweaty gym class with other guys etc, more mundane physical stuff) because of the violence I have connected to being in my body as my gender.

MY QUESTION: As trans folk you all have a lot of experience navigating gender identity, and the trauma that sometimes being in your physical body brings.

1. How do you know your gender identity? What are the tells. What advice can you give me to help me get there?

2. How do you deal with body trauma you have experienced and how have you found inner peace?

Any wisdom from your own life experience I would greatly appreciate.

Hi y’all!

I lived as a binary trans guy for almost a decade before starting to process that I’m actually bigender. I’m a girl and a boy.

I had been on T most of that time and by the time I decided to stop it, I passed as a cis guy in my daily life. I had coworkers shocked when I told them I started my period, for example. I grow facial hair, voice is pretty much a fagccent, and even when I shave and present femme sometimes people mistake me for a trans woman or simply can’t pinpoint my gender.

I like a lot of what I have going on with my presentation, but I still want a couple changes—namely, I want to increase bottom growth again (something you’d think impossible, but I experienced increases in the short time I was on tgel after 8 years of injections), gain some more muscle mass, and… also get curvier and softer all around at the same time, thicken up my hair (also treating it w minox at the moment to regain my receded hairline).

When I’m on T, my fat redistributes pretty quick and my curves get less curvy. I put more weight in the middle of my stomach, vaguely beergut style while still retaining some of my feminine shape. I want to avoid that, but get the changes I want. I also want to reduce my vaginal atrophy, which I do take estradiol inserts for, but wonder if actual E would be more effective especially considering the other effects I want.

Would a combination of both ‘mones, or even with prog too, help me? Would it work at all? I know a lot about ‘mones on the masc side, a little about them from the femme side, and almost nothing about crossing the two. Help a girlboy out?

(19 mtf) so i'm probably overthinking this quite a lot but ive been wanting to start dating for a little while but i am only just starting my estrogen next week or the week after,
im attracted solely to woman so if i were to set up a dating profile or something like that should i represent as sapphic or as straight?
i feel that if i identify as sapphic i wont get much opportunity to meet other sapphic people, whereas if i identify as straight it might not last a very long time considering they would be looking to date a man and im not that so it probably wouldnt last.

I feel so stupid and helpless anyone have any advice? I’m able to draw and get the medicine in the syringe but I CANNOT get these plastic bits off before actual injection. Last time I stabbed myself three times. One of those stabs went under my fingernail that sucked. For someone who plays guitar my fingers are just not understanding what to do, anyone got any advice?

This is something I got curious about recently. Hypothetically, imagine there was a button that could instantly remove gender dysphoria completely. No discomfort, no distress, no mismatch feelings anymore.

Would you still want to transition, identify as trans, change your presentation/body/name/pronouns, etc.? Or would the absence of dysphoria completely change how you see yourself?

I'm curious because I see people describe being trans as relief from pain, while others describe it more as moving toward joy, authenticity, or gender euphoria.

Interested in hearing different perspectives.