so what changes have you had transitioning?

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Curious. I have body fat changes, softer face, deeper feelings and a pair of a pluss boobs that I need to be b.

No surgery.

And no male sex drive at all.

Love the legs, butt, little perky breasts.

Dream come true, body in progress.

How far did you go dears, are you loving it too?

I present genderqueer socially. It's the beard. Knee high boots and long clear high gloss nails, medium hair.

I am happy. Wow.

[DCW]

Breast growth (minimal) and sex drive changes are about it for me. The latter changed twice - my very high sex drive vanished once I was on Spiro and then returned after I had SRS.

HRT makes me feel great when the dose/levels are right, but getting and keeping that has been an absolute nightmare (still trying to get that straightened out.)

I present strictly as female/woman, but I'm an odd mix of both femme and butch. I'll just as happily wrench on my motorcycle as wear heels to the office. A friend felt that a photo I had of my filthy hands holding a brake caliper but with clearly visible bright red nails just was a perfect moment of me.

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Been on full blown feminizing HRT for 20+ years, had an orchie back around sometime between 2005 - 07. Got all the girly stuff and still maintain a little libido with occasional application of .02ml cream in the nether regions coupled with half a viagra pill on date night because the lil woman still loves a little whoopee occasionally although I don't think it's done much to help my hairline but wtf life is short, might as well not act dead yet.

[Ayla]

Significant physical and emotional changes. Emotional changes and the end of dysphoria are the most welcome changes.

Physical change. Breast growth (again) even after a bilateral breast reduction (kept the capsule); female fat deposits (larger butt, loss of muscle tone, rounder face); much nicer more lustrous hair; finer body hair and little regrowth; brittle nails; loss of physical strength; better skin (softer, more easily bruised, more dry, less oily, smaller pores); eyes are more open; better sense of touch and smell; more observant; and I am told that I look at least 10 years younger than my peer group.  All good except that the beard was unaffected by hrt.  There was no alternative other than the uncomfortable and expensive, hair by hair removal via galvanic electrolysis.

Emotional change. Nil dysphoria; greater empathy; better read of non verbal cues; more relaxed, authentic and honest; colours seem brighter; just feel less alone; much more connected with everything and with every body; an overpowering need to express love and support;

While ymmv,  for me even low dose hrt has been truly transformative.

Safe travels

Aisla

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Dec 11, 2014 2:20:33 GMT 8 @julieblair said:

Emotionally my experience mirrors Aisla's and I take delight in my new humanity. There remains some physical dysphoria that will eventually be addressed, but other than genitalia my body continues its march towards femininity and I can now look at myself in a full length mirror without cringing. I love my new shape. I will never be a bikini a babe, but I take delight in wearing clothing that shows off the girl that is now there.

For me being non-binary is more an acceptance of my total life experience as real and valuable, and not much at all about my presentation as a woman. I hope that makes sense to somebody, it confuses me still. But I can now celebrate both who I was as well as who I am. HRT has made that possible. I spent most of my life despising how I looked and how I felt compelled to live. That I no longer feel that life is an imposition but is rather a gift, is the largest and most important change of all.

Peace,
Julie

Total sense dear, I suspect I am the same.

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The immediate change was the sense of calm. I'm still very prone to frustration, but less inclined to rage. I can't stand the feeling that comes with lashing out. It makes me shaky and I start crying. Where I live right now I've had at least one of those moments a month due to the lack of cleanliness and consideration of the other people staying here. This is my friend Ricky's house (it's his mother's, but she doesn't live here), and these people he calls friends have treated this place as if they're the only people who live here. Dishes would sit in the sink with food on them, the trash would pile up, the floors would get disgusting, and a couple people have actually banned some of our friends because they don't get along with them. My room, at the moment, was made from one of the garages, and it tends to absorb sound. I've asked people repeatedly, month after month, to not stand by my door while talking loudly, and to keep the noise levels down after a certain time. Asking nicely would get tiring after so many times, and I would blow up. After starting HRT that tendency for rage has been reduced.

I'm barely into two months now and I have some breast growth, my skin is clearing up and getting softer, and finally, the downstairs mixup is pretty docile. I've been underweight for a while due to a medication affecting my appetite, but I've stopped taking it so I can gain weight again. My doc said he would change up my medications if I didn't, and I don't want that to happen.

I've also felt a bit more empathic in a sense. Not so much picking up on others emotions, but feeling more nurturing. Lately, though, I've been very moody and depressed. I can't say that really has anything to do with HRT, though. I'm just feeling alone, and sometimes completely disregarded. It's like when you're in primary school and someone does something to get the teacher to blame you. No matter what you say, they always believe everyone else.

My only real company right now is my imagination, and music. Writing keeps me sane.

[Dani]

In my 8 months of hrt the first 4 or 5 seemed to yield next to nothing.  Somewhere around 6 months, it was like the floodgates opened, I really began to notice how much muscle mass was disappearing, skin softer (Native American, so it was already very smooth), what little hair I had was getting baby fine and almost invisible.  This though was the first and most startling, walking by a mirror something caught my attention and I went back to look full on into the mirror (something I did very little of), it was my EYES!  I looked into them and it was the first time I saw Dani looking out, soft, vulnerable, but most of all she was smiling, this was the absolute first time in my life seeing happiness in them.

From this point on things began in earnest, breast development (now a full B cup), and now emotions are on the scene, I can cry, the armor has cracked, armor I have been strengthening since around, uh, not sure, maybe really really young.

I had lost quite a bit of weight, 210 down to 150 prior to hrt, and now muscle mass is still just melting away.  I now recognize when I say something that can cause hurt feelings and apologize.  I'm more careful, meaning I drive slower, pay more attention to acts of risky movements (running up or down or even skipping two or three in a jump, those days of needing to overcompensate in 'everything' is leaving.  I'm actually beginning to FEEL feminine, my body movements are changing without directives from me, its just happening.

All in all, things are very very good.   Dani

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The main things I've noticed is softer skin and breast growth. I never had a sex drive to begin with, so I couldn't remark on that matter. Hips are definitely wider, but they were wide-ish already (XXY, probably). Emotionally, I feel more sensitive and more affectionate. It's even made me more appreciative of the protective nature of men, although I have no attractions there. The biggest thing for me, though, is how HRT has greatly reduced my tendency towards frustration and aggravation. I am much less anxious and agitated, and I think indicative of the fact that I actually needed to be estrogen dominant.