The people who do their own surgeries are almost always taking the last resort...they can't get HRT, or they can't afford anything legitimate (or they can, but doctors refuse). If they could have seen a doctor, they would 😅

(speaking as an Australian woman who's had scripts for cypro/bica in the past, I'm not just making things up)

Spiro *is* a bad AA. It's just that the US FDA is dumb and made the good AAs (cypro, bica) illegal or inaccessible.

Do you want menswear or andro corporate girl? I don't know anything about menswear but I have some smart casual office fits.

The downside risk to cycles is emulating perimenopause with all the consequences that implies, and spending the next year or two digging your way out once you stop. The upside is possibly better breast growth and vague solidarity with cis women over their hormonal mood swings. Idk if that's worth it

*If* you do it be very careful about maintaining a baseline estrogen level during the troughs, and you want enough prog shots to use at least one every day during the low-e part of the cycle (and take caps for the high-e part)

I experimented with this for a few months after my pellet ran out. It's not really possible to get enough prog to mirror the prog/estrogen distribution in a cis woman, and the spikes have massive side effects. I had severe mood swings, developed bad acne, and lost most of my hair volume.

...as if I the queer theorist' world there's no wlw/mlm solidarity, no dysphoric or GNC solidarity, *just* "gender creativity" that exists for anthropologists to analyse. (when I agree that trans* is hegemonic, I mean its specific understanding of queerness, obvi our genders per se are subordinate)

It feels like there's some kind of weird naïveté to these takes. "Trans*" as a category is arguably hegemonic, but it doesn't erase the common grounds of transfeminization between us and third-gendered people. That commonality doesn't appear to feature in this worldview at all...

"What if I had transitioned as an adolescent and grown up normally" is one painful fantasy; "what if I had been allowed to grow as myself instead of being forced into the mold of a r*tard" is another. I'll never know what potential I might have had, or who I might have been...