Trans Megathread from June 8th to June 14th
(hexbear.net)
59
I forgot that it's my mega week so no big info dump this time. Instead I bring a question: how do you practice gender self-care? Do you have any activities or rituals that make you feel more comfortable in your gender? Painting my nails and taking care of my hair are the most consistent ones. These shouldn't even be considered gendered activities by society, but I missed out on having long hair and painted nails when I was younger because of my assigned gender, so doing them now feels validating and gives me confidence.
Join our public Matrix server!
https://rentry.co/tracha#tracha-rooms
As a reminder, please do not discuss current struggle sessions in the mega. We want this to be a little oasis for all of us and the best way to do that is not to feed into existing conflict on the site.
Also, be sure to properly give content warnings and put sensitive subjects behind proper spoiler tags. It's for the mental health of not just your comrades, but yourself as well.
Here is a screenshot of where to find the spoiler button.
spoiler
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2026
59 points (100.0% liked)
traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns
1470 readers
101 users here now
Welcome to /c/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns, an anti-capitalist meme community for transgender and gender diverse people.
-
Please follow the Hexbear Code of Conduct
-
Selfies are not permitted for the personal safety of users.
-
No personal identifying information may be posted or commented.
-
Stay on topic (trans/gender stuff).
-
Bring a trans friend!
-
Any image post that gets 200 upvotes with "banner" or "rule 6" in the title becomes the new banner.
-
Posts about dysphoria/trauma/transphobia should be NSFW tagged for community health purposes.
-
When made outside of NSFW tagged posts, comments about dysphoria/traumatic/transphobic material should be spoiler tagged.
-
Arguing in favor of transmedicalism is unacceptable. This is an inclusive and intersectional community.
-
While this is mostly a meme community, we allow most trans related posts as we grow the trans community on the fediverse.
If you need your neopronouns added to the list, please contact the site admins.
Remember to report rulebreaking posts, don't assume someone else has already done it!
Matrix Group Chat:
Suggested Matrix Client: Cinny
https://rentry.co/tracha (Includes rules and invite link)
WEBRINGS:
🏳️⚧️ Transmasculine Pride Ring 🏳️⚧️
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
What are your gays thoughts on me upping my E from 4mg een weekly to 6mg? https://estrannai.se/#imt0__cu,4,7,2-cu,6,7,2
Someone has been suggesting this to me, that raising E levels would more closely mimic cis puberty. Which I don't hate as an approach, I'm just not sure if I need to I guess. The biggest drawback I see is using my vials faster. idk, anyone have thoughts?
8 months hrt no labs.
You should get labs to verify your current levels. There is a lot of variation in pharmacogenomics, everyones liver is different (I remember one study showing 70% variation between siblings in pharmakinetics of some drug).
The idea of higher E levels to mimic puberty is interesting, I will say when I upped my doses and started having the intense emotional side of puberty - I backed off lol. I get that you wanna make it go faster but Im skeptical its much any faster than current dose plus time. I would be curious what the diy femme hrt people think of it, theres not tons of studies but they do some research.
400 sounds fine for what its worth as well if thats your personal target.
You guys keep giving me ideas of stuff to try to study. I need to become a pharmacist and researcher so much. Hopefully this year I'll start it, hopefully in a public university.
I know, I am hoping to be able to get blood work soonish. Do injectibles go through your liver? I thought that was one advantage over E pills.
I mean I do, but someone had suggested it multiple times to me so I thought it was something I should investigate/ask others opinions on.
Okay cool, glad you think that range is okay though, I trust your view on that
First pass oral means it goes through your liver, is highly metabolized by it, then goes systemic. Parenteral routes like injections skip the first pass, but eventually your body is gonna start cleaning stuff out cause thats what it does. Short of a clone organ or whatever that produces estrogen/progesterone on its own, youll always be clearing out whatever you put in instead of homeostasis.
You should get labs first, then labs after 6 weeks on the new dose to see the difference, if you choose to go down that route. And yeah, you'll go through vials much faster. FWIW, I've been taking 7mg EEn and got my labs done for the first time in forever and my E was at 528pg/mL at trough. Definitely going to dial it back to 5mg going forward. I'm way past hitting my numbers and would rather have my vials last longer.
Probably a waste of estrogen without a lab to indicate otherwise.
I definitely agree that doing blood tests is a good idea. But also Estrogen's never wasted if you're putting it in your body IMO