🚨 Pessoal brasileiro do #fediverse, me ajuda, o AmbuTrans do centro de #PortoAlegre está debaixo d'água, e pode demorar meses para o centro voltar a normalidade, eu recebo minha testosterona via SUS! Por favor me diga um lugar alternativo que eu possa ser transferido para continuar meu tratamento :neocat_floof_sad: a vida já está sofrida demais.
Sometimes I like to amuse myself by tallying which items of my outfit came from a "men's" department and which from a "women's" (per US retail designations). Today's tally:
I went to Ye Olde Big Box Store to pick up a garden hose spray nozzle I ordered online, and was greatly entertained by the unexpected, if random, little hit of transmasc joy among the freebies they added to my bag. 🤣🏳️⚧️😎
Kan-chan: "Just about everything, but especially my appearance."
From Konbini Idol
Tomo: As a kid, I wasn't insecure about anything. I was a bit wild and always in trouble. I suppose middle school is still a kid. Anyway that's when it started, the tits, the bleeding, and all that stuff. I didn't like it and was really insecure about who I was and how I looked. The guys I use run around with started hitting on me and that made it all worse. #Trans#Transgender#Transmasc
Not sure if a term for this exists, but I propose it as a better replacement for misandry - basically, a reason both queers and women demonize and abuse testosterone takers/makers, the overblown or completely fabricated negative psychological side effects of having it in one's system, and the way it's scapegoated as the root of many societal ills. Also, the specific way trans men are dismissed in queer spaces.
Wishing everyone a very happy Easter and Trans Day of Visibility 💙💖
We’re celebrating this very special occasion with a collection of trans pride creations by diverse artists from across the world celebrating Trans Visibility!
I’ve officially been on Testopel (aka “testosterone pellets”) for 3 years! :blob_cat_dance:
Testopel is a form of HRT where tiny rice-sized pellets of testosterone are implanted in the body through a small incision in the hip / butt cheek area. The pellets release testosterone over a period of 3-6 months (the amount of time varies for each person.) I started taking Testopel in March 2020, after previously being on testosterone gel. I consider it a huge improvement from gel because my T levels have been more stable and I only have to worry about my hormones every few months instead of daily which is SO convenient and really helps with dysphoria.
Here is a thread where I talk about Testopel and my experiences with it. Feel free to ask questions if you have any.
can my fellow #trans guys please recommend a #binder that doesn't trigger claustrophobia? (the hard-front types that are meant to be pulled on over the head do, and I love mine, but I'm avoiding to go outside because I dread wearing it)
( #lgbtqiap / #transmasc)
#PennedPossibilities Writing 263 — Who in your SC's family do they most resemble?
From Girlfriend
Kan-chan: "I don't want to think about that. Next question."
From Konbini Idol
Tomo" "It is amazing how much I resemble my father after I started taking hormones. Looks wise, I hope not personality wise." #transgender#trans#transmasc
Image description: Graphic of Spiderman, with his costume rendered in trans flag pink and light blue. The accompanying text:
"Binderman,
Binderman,
Wears his binder
Whenever he can.
Can he breathe?
No, he can't.
That's okay,
At least he's flat.
Look out,
Here comes the Binderman!"
I can't bind because of chronic pain, and trans tape isn't holding my tits because it's heavy, I can't do surgery either because it takes more than morphine for me to not suffer, what should I do? I'm lost.
Instead of letting me go, she said, “You shouldn’t. That’s a graveyard and she’s dead.”
Everyone said that, but it was a mistake. I had seen Mikawa, and she was definitely alive. Why wouldn’t Ume let me go? All I wanted to do was be with my girlfriend. Did this damn bitch think I would go with her when I had Mika?
“Fuck you,” I said and tried to get away. “She’s waiting. Mika is waiting.”
A slice-of-life character sketch developing Kan-chan as a character a year after the close of “My Girlfriend Almost Got Me Killed.” An altered version of this may appear in “For Love of a Konbini Idol.” Please regard this story as an AU and not canon.
By the way, it is a shaggy dog story. There isn’t a point to it, but I talk a lot about a dog, Tomino.
I started medically transitioning in 2010, I went on compounded testosterone cream in the spring of 2010, and moved to injections in the fall of that year. I’ve done cream, gel, patches, injections and now implanted pellets.
So far pellets have been the simplest method of administration. No residue to rub off on my partner, no bruising, no pain, no itchy welts from the patch adhesives.
I have to wait to see my levels but purely in terms of process I would recommend pellets. #HRT#TransMasc