Hi, welcome!

Oh congrats, that’s awesome!

Hey please don’t hurt yourself!

Don’t minimise yourself, just because other people have it worse doesn’t mean you can’t feel bad! As others have said you should probably get some community to help you. We care, but unfortunately we can’t really be physically there for you. I’m not very good at this but I can listen if you want.

Oh yeah no it’ll be interesting to see where I end up, I’m not against being fem, and I don’t really know what will happen.

Thanks again for all the advice!

First off, thank you so much this is great.

I think socially I’ll probably end up more masc, but it’ll be what it’ll be.

I’ll probably go for monotherapy, and yea I’ll definitely do blood tests regardless.

Thanks for the reassurance on the rest, that weird claim about breast growth was from a document made in 2020 with no sources, but I just got worried is all. For storage I do have places to keep them out of sunlight, but does this also carry for vials once they are in use? I’d like to know if there’s a cut-off for when I should stop using a vial in case I end up having my levels drop by accident. Also woaw that’s a lot, I think I’m obligated to stop worrying about any health risks of high E at this point, thanks <3.

Yeah you are right, I don’t really have anyone irl to talk to about this. I live in South London so I’m pretty lucky, I know there’s plenty of trans people near me but I really am not good with social stuff, I am going to make an effort but it’ll probably take a while to build myself up to it. I have heard things about 56T doing free blood tests but I can’t really find anything about it on their website so I don’t think that’s true.

Also yea BeamNG is very cool.

I have heard of the reputation surrounding GICs and the NHS, but I have strong values so it’d be unlikely for them to beat me down, especially since I’d probably be pretty far along when I actually see them. My dad seriously doesn’t believe me, he says he understands I’ve done research but wants to “see how it goes”? But I don’t think he understands that we literally won’t be seeing it for a while, I mean they literally publish their waiting list figures online, it’s not like I’m going to get special treatment.

Thanks for all the advice, especially on blood tests, that’s one of the things I’m more unsure of. I think I’ll be fine without a blocker, I’ll just wait for my T levels to drop (unless it takes months? But it should be a few weeks right?).

Thank you so much <3.

Yeah I’ve read quite a bit of transfemscience’s stuff, and since I am aiming for monotherapy I’ll probably end up going with Otokonoko’s estradiol enanthate, and either go with her dosage recommendations or something close to it using transfemscience’s simulator.

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I’m so sorry, I’ve had it pretty easy compared to most, but I definitely feel you. Representation is so important, I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for all the cool trans people online, given how closed off I am, without it I wouldn’t have stood a chance, I’ve never been suicidal but I often wonder where I’d be in a couple of years if I wasn’t exposed to the voices of queer people online. A lot of the things I heard about when I was younger were from cis voices, and it really doesn’t do it.

That’s why I feel things like social media bans are going to cause a lot of harm to young queer people, because we just don’t get that kind of representation in traditional media. Contrary though, I do see a lot more trans people in general now (in public), that and with things like the NHS waiting list probably being (at least in part) due to sheer volume, I feel like public representation could be a good substitute (in safe countries), since I (at least hope) we aren’t going back.

I don’t really have much life experience, and am quite literally 3 weeks or so old (since I accepted myself), so I’m not sure my advice will mean much (sorry), but it seems you’re better now than you have been, If you haven’t already (and if you’re in a stable place to do so), start picking up your interests again, find some people to care about (and who care about you!), and try to make the best of what you have.

Not quite (it’s newer) :3

I know :(

I don’t think I can change it though, silly firmware limitation.

I was more sympathising with the poster, but yeah that’s about it.

I’m not gonna engage mentally with anything from .ml since from experience it really isn’t worth it. Taking a wander on .ml was pretty much the most confusing thing I’ve ever experienced when I first tried out lemmy, I mean their ukraine community is all you need to see, really is kind of another level of closed off from reality. Either you’re out of the loop or you agree with them, but .ml being based around a (relatively) singular unquestioning belief system isn’t healthy.

Well yeah that’s lemmy.ml for you.

Admittedly don’t know any of the context and can’t argue on it, but the instance’s political stance is very whack (tankies).

A folder of music I couldn’t give less of a damn about apparently

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You’re probably right yeah.

I don’t know if it’s unlucky or lucky, but a most girls will wear jeans where I live, which makes sense why I’ve only ever been she/her’d when wearing jeans. Unlucky because it’ll make wearing things like a skirt more awkward.

Also thanks <3

I’ll be sure to let you know when/if I do diy, thanks <3

Oh lol, then I guess it’s cool that helped you figure it out. I’ve been meaning to compliment someone at uni (they seemed nervous) but I missed the chance, I’ll be sure to do so when we start again in September.

About my hair, it’s naturally thick and curly, so I’m not sure if this will work for everyone, but it normally gets very frizzy if I don’t do anything with it, so my Mum taught me to use hair mousse, and I’ve settled on one of the strongest ones that Wella (the company) makes, other than that I don’t really take care of my hair as well as I could be, just that and re-doing it every 2-3 days to stop it from knotting. If you know Tony Statovci then mine is just his if it were shorter, although he ties his hair up a lot so you’ll have to see it when he has it down.

Thanks again I really appreciate all the support everyone is giving me. <3