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      story of many trans people

      once you feel good in your body, you want to feel good in your body

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    I’ve only seen that word used in hate groups, weird to see someone using ‘trans gooner’ in a non-cruel context

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      4-Chan is a self-hate group. It’s full of people using slurs to refer to themselves, so I’m not sure you can really call this a non-cruel context

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        Definitely, however the slurs might help anons cope and not hate each other. It‘s this phenomenon of alt-right thinktanks needing a common enemy, but in this case there is mutual self-depreciation and it works because everyone is anonymous and shares intimate thoughts. Wouldn‘t work in other forms of social media though, there it is PC speech or utter hatred.

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      Yeah, in my little experience basically all of the effects of hormones are “in general” at best, both in timeline and actual effects.

      Personally my libido went up a little but unlike OOP it was very much present before too.

      Meanwhile the skin softening stuff took a week or so to be noticeable, when it definitely “should” take longer.

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        My libido went down initially, but then came back. Being horny feels completely different though. Previously I didn’t really want sexual contact with anyone, masturbation was more than enough to satisfy me. Now, however, I don’t want to masturbate, I want someone to fucking breed me. It’s… fascinating but also frustrating at the same time as someone who’s single. I think it’s probably a mix of estrogen, progesterone (it didn’t really start coming back until I started prog), and being more comfortable in my body.

        As far as skin goes, it was literally 3~4 days. Literally took a shower, shaved my legs, and went “holy shit”.

        I also like the way that I smell far more than when I started. The smell of man sweat when it came from me was disgusting. Now I actually kinda like the way I smell.

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        I definitely didn’t notice any changes in skin texture 'til around week 4 or 5, but the change in my body odor started on like day 6, way sooner than the general timeline would have sugested.

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          The body is a hodge-podge of Rube Goldberg machines, and trans research is wayy underdeveloped. Method of delivery and absorbancy and a billion other things probably affect the effects.

          Out of curiosity, the skin changes were a huge boon to me (one that I didn’t expect to be so nice), so there’s a world where it was partially psychological. Was body odor a big dysphoria source for you?

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            I’m a highly scent-oriented person so I was probably more sensitive to that change than most, but I didn’t realize it was a contributing factor to my dysphoria until that very moment. It’s not that I disliked my old scent, it just never smelled like “me”, y’know?

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              Lmfao samee, I getcha. I had nothing against my skin before, but it was never comfy. I didn’t even realize it because it was just normal, and when it felt worse it felt like it just needed a shower (where I incidentally rubbed my skin raw. Which I didn’t even process as probably-not-great).

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                Mood. I lived with my dysphoria for so long that I didn’t even realize how much of my “normal” was just depression until that first dose of E lifted the weight from my shoulders.

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                  At this point I’m trying to get off my antidepressant because I think it’s suppressing a lot of the mood changes I would have otherwise gotten from starting estrogen. So far it seems like my guess is correct; every time I step down a dose my feelings get stronger, I feel less dissociated, and so forth. It’s a double edged sword though. I’ve had some moments of extreme dysphoria while my brain is getting used to the lower dosage.