THINGS I WISH I KNEW BEFORE I STARTED T | FTM 

congrats on starting t so soon, and for being 4 months clean! i’m so happy for you and proud of you as well :D

Hope everything's going well ❤ Goodluck on ur transition journey from a stranger lmao

you got this homie hang in there and it’ll be time to get your first shot before you know it

Don't do it.

How's it going?

@@LCC7214shut the hell up dude mind your business

Hey if you don’t mind me asking how does the diagnostic goes ? I’m seeing a psychologist who’s specialized in trans issues and I’m kinda nervous about what’s going to happen

tysm for the support! hope you get to start t asap :)

ginger trans bros unite! good luck on your journey bro, glad i could help in some small way :)

@@youtuvr1259 thanks for taking valuable time out of your day to share your input and concern for my health. Recreational steroids and bio identical testosterone are very different things. Also trans people tend to have improved health outcomes when receiving gender affirming care. As to your last concern, I’m not trying to change my sex, I’m trying to be trans. I hope you’re able to come to a place where you are comfortable enough in yourself that you don’t feel the need to lash out at random strangers on the internet. Peace

@@youtuvr1259 oh boy I’ll be sure to share your advanced medical knowledge with my doctor. You must care an awful lot about trans people to get so riled up that you reply to my months old comment (that was addressed to the creator of this video, not you) with so many comments of your own. Appreciate you spending your time and energy on me. It’s very flattering.

you got this homie

YOUVE GOT THIS! I just started yesterday, as of writing this. It took me three years to get to this. You're going to be where you want soon, my dude.

congrats on picking up your first dose!! so exciting :)

thanks for the love + support, im glad my video helped!! good luck at your consultation:)

Glad i could help!!

thank you for the love + support man it means a lot to me!

My dad’s almost 60 and still has a full head of hair, speak for yourself lmfao

@@diederdas27 did you not read my comment? i said baldness can affect anyone, regardless of family history. my dad had most of his hair in his 60s, and still has his hair for the most part now that he's older than that, and i still have my hair also... that does not mean that somehow i am magically protected from becoming bald. baldness is a fact of life for men and it is something we accept. if someone is transitioning and they feel anxious and uneasy about being bald, they should be asking themselves how strongly do they actually feel about being a man.

i find it harder to cry in situations that would usually warrant crying, but easier to cry at mundane things like a sad song or something - maybe it’s different for other trans guys but at least that’s how i’ve experienced it

@@aktdoa I just don't want to cry when I'm angry at someone, or when I have to confront someone, or someone confronts me.

unfortunately i don’t think you get to pick and choose what you do or don’t cry at 😅

congrats on starting!

ty for the love!! means the world to me :’)

for me my libido was high even before starting T, but after starting HRT it definitely got higher. idk if it’s calmed down for me LOL but i’ve learned to manage it

@@aktdoa Cool, thanks for answering! I'll just deal with it too then

i think it depends on if your growth plates have fused (if you’ve already stopped growing). i’ve heard about some guys gaining an inch or two, but personally i didn’t notice any height gain after starting T!

congrats man!

are you sure your friend wasn’t just on puberty blockers? i’ve never heard of any trans man younger than 16 being put on Testosterone before

@@aktdoa I'm not 100% sure one day he said that he were going to a trans clinic and his voice gradually becoming deeper/changing

I haven't had any issues making friends come from being trans - most of the time it comes from the fact that i'm just not very good at making friends anyways LOL hair loss can be preventable if you start treating early on, but if you're genetically predisposed to male pattern baldness, there's not a whole lot you can do to stop it entirely, just lessen/slow the effects.

no, thankfully i haven’t experienced any of the usual symptoms or anything like that!

yeah!

i think some people who already experience depression may feel that more than those who haven’t before! it’s more of a personal well-being thing imo

@@aktdoa that's kinda been the one thing really stopping me from starting t but it's good to know it's not like a thing that will happen but that it's more of a can happen. thank you for responding :)

no worries, i’m glad i could help a bit!

@@Billiesavocados taking steroids is unhealthy

@@Billiesavocados taking male levels of testosterone as a female causes many health issues and increases the risk of cancer by alot

I definitely experienced that!! I was very groggy, always sleepy/tired, and had a hard time thinking for a few months. It goes away!

i have this slight hope that the highest your hairline is preT the less its gonna recede haha

I would definitely say that my hairline has more or less stayed the same since starting T (as that's something I continuously obsess over). One of my biggest fears is going bald, so I take preventative measures pretty seriously (rosemary oil, scalp massages, caffeine or mint shampoo, etc.) and those have absolutely made a difference, both in regrowing the parts of my hairline I decimated from years of tight ass buns/braids and from preventing any thinning out from testosterone. There are lots of ways to prevent hair loss!

@@aktdoa thank you for replying ! its really interesting would you have any products recommendations ?

i used that term to refer to my period/menstrual cycle!

it’s not uncomfortable to touch at all, at least it wasn’t for me. it was uncomfortable when it was first growing, cus i’d never experienced anything like that before obviously, so it was a learning curve figuring out which underwear to wear, which pants were too tight, etc my sex drive/sex life was never affected by it tho

Think the number of us only „increases“ because we feel more comfortable and receive more educated about certain topics to finally understand what’s going on with and in us and what we want or not want. Starts with little things but can lead to big ones. I think nowadays people are more brave as the acceptance grows (even if it’s slow). Diversity is now a „more common“ term than it was 50 years ago. It’s not that there exist more e.g. transgender people than back then in my opinion nowadays people are just more open and aren’t afraid / don’t want to hide themselves. Think it’s just a different time and so peoples behaviour is different.

I appreciate your comment, but I think there’s a big difference between a cisgender person being uncomfortable with puberty and a transgender person’s experience with gender dysphoria. You’re right that lots of people like yourself hate their experience with puberty, but eventually “get over it” or are able to live and accept their body after a period of time. Unfortunately for transgender people, it’s not that simple. While we also hate puberty, we don’t hate it for the same reasons you probably did - it was a reminder for us that we were born “in the wrong body”. I cannot be comfortable embracing a body that, in my mind, I was never meant to have. Experiencing gender dysphoria is a constant battle for us, and it typically doesn’t just “go away”, unless we take action against it (such as beginning HRT, or undergoing gender affirming surgeries, etc).

@@aktdoa I appreciate your reply and will think deeply on all that you say. To be quite honest, I absolutely believe that Jesus said God requires mercy over sacrifice. There are many nuances to this movement that I frankly cannot understand. But you miss every shot you don't take, and if I don't at least try to understand, I will have not have chosen to be very merciful. I will ponder deeply what you have said. Thank you for making time to speak to me.

@@msleatha3078 Thank you for trying to understand !

@@maxmanuelstraubinger9196 I have been thinking deeply about your remark for nine days now. It made me feel good, to be thanked for trying to understand. But it also made me feel awful, because other Christians should have already tried to understand. Sometimes it feels like the world is full of desperate people drowning in an icy, black ocean, only to have someone in a boat row up to them and kick them in the face. Jesus wants us to help people not hurt them. He wants us to show people how good He is not drive them away from Him. He knew that not everybody was going to be into Him or believe in Him. And He got criticized plenty for hanging around with people that religious type people didn't think were good enough. He called the religious leaders of His day hypocrites, because they were. It isn't right to only try to understand people that you like or that you agree with already. It takes more effort and it's more righteous to try to understand the people that you wouldn't naturally fall in with. I don't think I'll ever be able to fully understand the struggles of a transgender person any more than I'll ever be able to fully understand the struggles of an autistic person. But if God asks me to try, then I'm gonna try. And I'm gonna be good to every person that I engage with in this world. And I hope that you find many, many people to understand you. Because, even though I don't know you, I sense in just this one little remark from you a need to be understood. I hope good things for you.

A man is simply a man

@@lazyduck6922 you can't define a word with itself

@@lazyduck6922 a man is an adult male human being... Why does that upset you so much?

@@ronald3726 if youve been paying attention trans men do infact exist. man is literally a human made term and is more defined by society and social ideologies. you can't fully define it since not all men are the same. Like how not all men are biologically male. It doesn't upset me it's just that it's blatantly wrong. Theres no set definition for a gender except for "a gender on the vast human spectrum"

@@youtuvr1259 males

super glad i outgrew the whole punching walls thing tho. that shit is toxic

@@aktdoa Oh yeah definitely, haven't done it in a year or so, so many healthier things to do when angry