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Hormone cycle

I am not a doctor! Do not do anything here unless your doctor is ok with it and allows you to!

So, I do a lot of research regularly into various parts of being trans and how to make my transition as complete as possible - which can apply (can, but probably doesn’t always) to other people, so here I am sharing!

Now, if you do a bit of diving into the ocean that is the internet you can find the cycle that a cis-gender woman’s hormones go through.

Figure 1

Figure 2

Figures 1 and 2 courtesy of wikipedia

Anyway, every time I get my blood drawn, I ask for the results to be sent to me (or put on my online patient portal) so that I can view how my levels reacted to the different dosages of estradiol that I was taking. Also, I had hormone levels taken before I started taking hormones so I was able to determine roughly how much my testosterone was contributing to my estradiol level.

Taking this data, I plotted it into excel and had it calculate a trend line so I could use that equation to predict how much estradiol I would have in my blood from doses I had yet to take.

Figure 3 - a selection of my own data, sans specifics so people don’t use my doses for themselves. This stuff is very specific to each person’s body.

So, taking this equation, I picked doses that would theoretically give me levels near an average cis-gender woman’s levels and made a graph of that:

Figure 4

So, these are the rough levels that the average cis-gender woman has according to Figure 1 put onto this graph and the predictions of my levels next to them.

Taking this data, I asked my doctor if I could follow vary the dose I took every day to match this. She looked it over and agreed!

Also, I now take Progesterone 6 days out of every month to coincide with the spike a cis-gender woman has every month.

For ease of scheduling my doses, I have my cycle start at day 1 at the beginning of every month, so my cycle is 30 or 31 days long depending on the month (except the fun month of February!)

I am now being even more closely monitored, but I believe this will be more than worth it. Fingers crossed! Also, don’t be afraid to discuss your medication with your doctor! I am not a doctor, so do not take this information and use it without getting their permission first! I will not ever suggest anyone starts hormone treatment without being safely monitored by a doctor.

Two months in and my boobs grew an extra cup and my body has become much more feminine, btw!

#mtf #transgender #hormones

anexperimentallife

The director of cybersecurity from the Electronic Freedom Foundation is offering to help women who have been threatened with compromise of their devices.

littlewitchlingrowan

I better see EVERYBODY reblogging this

God, I love college!

Who would have guessed a trans woman would be the president of an engineering student organization, vice-president of a physics student organization, in honors, president’s list every semester, all while the staff and other students are here to witness my transition first-hand. Oh, and doing research and teaching labs!

My school also happens to be in Texas.

#girls like us #transgender

mew

two

I’ve never had a cold sore

Until now.. I think my HRT managed to wake up the dormant virus for the first time ever..

It’s always weird when other people’s parents go out of their way to show that they support me when mine can’t stand to look at me.

ramonaisonline

Sometimes the smallest, silliest things feel like huge accomplishments ✨ . One of my favorite parts of transition is experiencing the things I always envied. I had shoulder length hair as a kid, but refused to style it or do ponytails or use bobby pins. I rejected anything that would make me seem like I was doing something “feminine”… even though that’s what I really wanted. As I grew up, my hair got shorter and shorter as I repressed my feelings more and more. Now I have so many hair styles I want to try, and little things like being able to do a braid are really meaningful to me.

theholyholland-deactivated20230

Thought I would just share this beautiful spideypool moment with you all.

decadenthumor

apologeticallyfat

Lol same

haunted-camaro

…

infinrtywar

so.. I did a thing.

retroasgardian-deactivated20180

I CANT FUCKING BRATHEWHBFAESJHFBESJH

pinkettepoet

this is the reason why i live now

repmarktakano

This remarkable line of questioning from Congresswoman Suzan DelBene demonstrates just a few of the ways that the GOP tax plan treats corporations better than people.

Under the Republican plan, corporations are still allowed to deduct state and local taxes. Workers are not. Corporations are still allowed to deduct business expenses. Teachers are not. Corporations are still allowed to deduct more than $10,000 in property taxes. Homeowners are not. Corporations are still allowed to deduct moving expenses. Families are not.

And this is on top of a $1.5 trillion corporate tax cut.

Let’s be clear, this is not a “middle-class tax cut.” Working families get the crumbs and the super-wealthy get everything else.

jhameia

how can you not be speechless in the face of that kind of cartoon villainy though, like, he doesn’t even look fucking guilty about it or realize that he should be

brunhiddensmusings

its official- citizens are now second class citizens

abigailasper-blog

micdotcom

Watch: Viral clip shows a woman in genderless clothing being ejected from a ladies’ bathroom by the police.

yarking

I saw this tagged as transphobia and while the laws and atmosphere that surrounds this is very much grounded in transphobia, I think it’s worth mentioning that that’s a cis woman.

So you know.

Fucking thanks, TERFs. Aren’t you glad bathroom laws trying to prevent “men” from entering the ladies room has caused two male police officers to eject cis women from the bathroom already? Since that’s the only women you care about maybe you might actually spend longer than .5 seconds thinking about possible fucking reprocussions of this shit now.

beetlejuicesgraveyardrevue

Oh my goooooddddd this shit is ridiculous. Like, this law has always been complete and utter transphobic bullshit, but here’s the god damn proof it will never work the way these idiots want it to. You cannot determine someone’s gender by the clothes they wear. Fuck, I get misgendered and called a man all the time. Do I need to bring my I.D. next time I take a shit? I am so tired of this garbage. Let people use the damn bathroom they want to.

theroguefeminist

But this is exactly the outcome of laws like this: policing and punishing people who deviate from the gender norm. The direct target is of course trans people (with the brunt of the focus on trans women), but anyone who doesn’t fit with the norms will also be impacted by the law because now there’s a witch hunt against anyone who doesn’t seamlessly blend in.

the-awkward-turt

Isn’t it terribly ironic that this law was intended to prevent men from entering a woman’s bathroom and harassing women (which wasn’t actually happening) and it has directly resulted in male police officers entering the women’s bathroom and harassing a woman?

sleepydumpling

If you’re horrified at cis women being treated like this, you sure as shit better be horrified at trans women being treated like that too.

dadvenom

i don’t want to start anything so i’m not rbing from the specific person but there are terfs in the notes saying that it’s ‘transwomen’s’ fault that this is happening because they made bathrooms ‘into a battleground.’

cis people did this. trans people had been going into the bathrooms that matched our genders (and risked assault doing it) but cis lawmakers made it the issue it is now

if cis people (that includes terfs) hadn’t spent so much energy trying to keep trans people (trans women specifically) out of bathrooms since this became a hot-button issue, there wouldn’t be masculine cis women getting kicked out and called sir.

it isn’t our fault that you hate us. trans people asking for rights didn’t cause this. cis people’s vehement denial of our rights did.

bleh184-blog

Does anyone have a working link or a copy of this video? I’d like to use it in a speech I’m giving for one of my classes.

So, in writing a speech for class, I’ve learned that about 60% of transgender people are mtf, while I had been under the assumption from normal media coverage that it was closer to like... 99% or something.

thesassycat

You can only reblog this today.

askjennaflorida

I missed my chance last year. Not gonna let it happen again

bloodcountessabendroth-deactiva

Hi, I'm 25 and debating starting male-to-female HRT. However, I'm scared that HRT won't help me at all. It seems like HRT does so little after puberty, especially by the time one gets in their 20s. I'm really scared that I'll just end up being someone in a male body, but with breasts. Is there anything you can say to someone having this fear? Thank you, and sorry, I suspect this is a silly question.

Actually, the claim that HRT doesn’t do much after puberty is a myth. I started when I was 31 years old and now I’m 35. =)

It’s never too late to transition!

lady-feral

Yeah, anon, have you seen my timeline? I started at 29.

It’s never too late.

transgirltumbling

Seriously, I transitioned at 39 and I’m 41 now. Hormones are magic whatever your age and while some things stay, many things change and it’s been totally worth it for me.

maikai-hoolilo-deactivated20200

OMG!!! I love seeing posts like this. The hope it inspires. especially in girls like me, is unprecedented. Thank you!

antiquityashley

Hope

themaddahlia-deactivated2023040

I felt the same way before I started transitioning and especially because I have a fair masculine build. But you know what I’ve learned from my experience so far? Fuck it! There is always hope and you could end up surprising yourself with the results.