I'm a nearly-thirty agnostic Jewish trans-guy student therapist. And I vlog a lot about the trans part!
By reason of the "student therapist" part, most of my videos are currently out of the rotation, while I check their content. One. By. One. I'll get them all done *eventually*.
Hair growth typically maxes out during adolescence. If you've ever previously had higher levels of testosterone than you do currently, and you're past your early twenties, it's pretty unlikely that a testosterone supplement will significantly alter the amount of hair on your body. If you've always had low levels of testosterone, there might be some change, though probably less, the farther you are from the years when people usually experience puberty. I'd ask your doctor what they think.
I have both low t and a lot of hair on various parts of my body (very odd combination, I must say). I fear that I will experience more body hair growth if I start taking testosterone. Your opinion on this?
I want to go stealth someday and i will certainly will! I think I deserve it. I do acknowledge the fact that I am not a cis guy but that is only one thing that I have to battle with myself. Depending on how I look like in a year, I will definitely go stealth because that's what I always wanted to do.
I don't think you should feel guilty or a sell out... You are now what you wanted to be for a long time, so enjoy it! You could always support fellow peeps by being on their side and protect them when they are attacked, etc. sad, but people judge by appearance, and you look 100% male. So, take that as an advantage! You'll be a guy who could help other guys understand stuff better w/out making them feel awkward.
Jack Donovan's not for me. I'm a fan of feminism, visible queerity, and general girlyness, and I have every intention of staying that way. Thanks for the compliments, though!
You look incredible...sometimes you just gotta claim the "man" part, which means you might have to reject third wave feminism, and embrace Jack Donovan style manhood. You look awesome!
I think people respond to identities that don't fit them by broadening their definitions, moving from one category to another, or abandoning the existing categories and inhabiting new ones. I'm always in favor of people having room to live as themselves, and for many, many people, that means leaving room for normative categories of gender, even while we expand the boundaries and identities that are included within gender.
This is an interesting an intelligently made video, and congrats on your transition working so well for you! I guess my opinion on gender differs somewhat from yours, in that I do see (binary) gender as a problem and would like to do away with that concept altogether. But I would never therefore argue that you should not have transitioned! Your body felt wrong for you, so you changed it, right? I'm not sure I understand why we need a concept of gender to even come into the picture?
@IluvAshland my dose is just a bit higher than yours, .75 cc of cypionate every 7 days; no supplements--I don't know that I can give you any real advice, except to hang in there and wait it out! I had very little facial hair at a year and three months; it didn't start really filling in until about two years along. Good luck!
im also wondering Did u have top surgey before u took t? did they like go down a bit when u started (if they did) im just asking case weather i should save to have top surgey if the pills dont make a huge diffrence
Hello lovely! Just saying hi and that you look great furry and not furry! And that I am getting my recommendation done now in order to apply for campus pride as a pride leader ASAP!
Thanks for sharing! I love videos like these--they make me feel like there's hope for me. T seems to be working really slowly on me. Hopefully I'll be able to grow awesome sideburns someday, haha.
I just want you to know how much I enjoy watching your videos. I follow a number of transgender/transition video blogs and while each of them is interesting in its own way, I've come to appreciate yours in an academic sense. You obviously put a lot of intelligent thought into what you say and its always interesting to listen to. :)
@boykisses88 yeah... I think it's cool to be gentle and take things easy on people close to us, within reason. But then sometimes I feel like there's this demand that the person who's in transition take responsibility for all the difficult feelings of the people in their life, sometimes even to the point of--well, this is too hard for me to deal with, so I just won't. And that's your problem, not mine. And that's bullshit. Relationships don't work that way.
::smiles:: I'm really glad that you were able to voice this...I've felt really selfish in the past about thinking thoughts like this, so its nice to hear I'm not the only one! Erica
@ XXY, I can agree with your assesment of our genetic history, but I can't agree with you that the differences between us are only superficial. From a biological standpoint, yes. But ethnicity, and racism, and the whole shebang are a lot more complicated than just biology. Differing rates of incarceration, differing jail sentences for similar crimes, differing portrayals in media, differing health statistics, life chances, education, etc. Only one of those--maybe--could be genetic.
We can't simply be blind to race, gender, etc. because those things still matter. They still operate in our society in ways that cause some to be empowered, some to be marginalized, and almost all of us to be fitted into (rather crude) little boxes of others' "knowledge" and expectations of us. I'm glad that more people are saying the kinds of things you're saying. I hope those words travel widely, and that they stick with people. Good old-fashioned common wisdom REALLY needs supplanting.
A lot of this is new to me, so thank you for the introduction. :) Until about two years ago I was pretty firmly conservative, and one of the results of that was expressing the idea that you talk about with race--that we should just do away with the notion of race because we're all the same species, all orginated in the same place, and with the acceleration of communication and migration, we're all destined for one big eventual homogeneity. I'm glad to have found my way out of such belief.
I don't know. I mean, on one level, yeah, the proper response to a lot of biological essentialist bullshit abt race is, listen, you schmuck; we're all from Africa if you go back enough; it's just whose ancestors decided to meander where in the middle of an effin' ice age. On the other hand--even while recognizing it as a social construct--race does operate in society differently than (tho not always separately from) culture, nationality, language, etc. And: I think there's a lot of cultural b
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