I did get rid of my beard last night just to try it, but I don't feel like I can commit to taking the moustache too for fear of flashbanging my friends and coworkers too much lol.

But the leg hair yeah... Its hard to get over 🥴

ooh nude stockings for the fishnet sounds like they'd work well. i'll try and find some that fit me

i doubt i'd go out in this for a loooong while... about 75% of the county i live in would just shoot me on sight and i'd rather not

It turns out the physical changes are actually really slow and you have tons of time to decide if it’s right for you.

i'd just like to add that the exact physical changes can vary a bit from person to person. i've taken estrogen twice last week (a friend offered it to me) and i could already feel my boobs grow a few days later (a kind of throbbing feeling in the boobs, but no physical changes were visible).

Mentally though it’s a huge positive difference, though. By far the best antidepressant I’ve tried. It lets you actually feel your feelings.

and i agree that this is an effect i can observe as well when taking finasteride, which suppresses some effects of testosterone; so i suspect it's actually more about the testosterone suppression that does this than the estrogen levels themselves? at least that's my guess. because i could feel no such change when i took estrogen on top of that.

Huh, I didn't know that hrt would change your "brain feel" that much. Is it like one of those thing where if you take low dose for like a week you can notice the difference? Or is it like a month or more. I've always struggled with the low motivation/brain fog kinda stuff, and feeling just kinda numb/not present, and never thought that hormones could change that...

I'd probably have to find some black market to see if it's right becuase I doubt any providers in my local shithole would ever get me any. And I don't want to go through the American medical system any more than I have to these days....

i do want to chime in and dampen expectations a bit - as with most things related to HRT, your mileage may vary. this point in particular fucked me over quite a bit; i ended up doing multiple "trial runs" on E (before finally sticking with it) because i went into it expecting i'd see mental changes within a few weeks and never noticed anything, leaving me more uncertain than when i started. at this point it's been nearly a year since i fully committed to HRT, and only now am i starting to get the very first hints of the mental changes other people have described getting within weeks.

not saying that it's a bad idea, more that even if you don't notice anything immediately doesn't necessarily mean it's not for you :)