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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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        Yeah, I didn’t heed a user’s warning and decided to check out a link to a site I won’t name. Scary stuff, it’s 4chan-esque and they have a dedicated channel for finding and attacking/doxxing people. 9 in 10 messages have an unnecessary slur, as if they’re all ten years old

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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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          It’s 4chan.

          That board is full of extremely toxic “do I pass threads” which are all about tearing each other down as a self hate ritual.

          Also, only binary MTF’s are welcome. Very hostile to FTM and non-binary people.

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          That’s the case in some spaces, but no they’re just really toxic to each other. It’s deeper than the slurs, they actively foster body image issues among each other and other mutually destructive behaviors in a way that’s been compared to how incels do. It’s a hub of masochistic epistemology

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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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        I’ve been on E technically 7 days and my skin isn’t softer, but my face acne is starting to disappear :)

        no chance in sweat smell yet, but then again my families genes is essentially half- as my sister puts it -“nose deaf” lol

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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.