#feminizing hrt

[komorebigold]

Putting all of the current HRT collab in one spot! Fixed some mistakes and did just a tiny bit of reformatting. I did this last summer, and I hipe to get more comic stuff done this year. Thank you to all my friends for helping me in this. Can't wait to work with more of y'all.

Thanks to @imstillalexcomic, @biblicallyaccuratemoth, @alienbycomics, @kaylasartwork, @bubbleverseart, @assumptionprime, @maxine302, @pennymations, @cr1zz0, @haarlow, @alice-arty, and @nooodlesartstyle

[royalfurtherevenmore]

gonna get such a good grade in trans agenda

[thorne1435]

The thing about trans women on HRT supposedly getting periods is like.

I believe you. You know your body better than me.

But do I get them? How could I even be able to tell?? Yeah I have gut problems one week out of the month but I always have some kind of gut problems. And my mood?? Bitch, I'm bipolar!

It's not like there's the smoking gun for us. We're not shedding any lining or anything. So what's the indicator?

[this-is-anti-subtliden]

Even if I was a ‘completely normal transgender person’ and was just like, I don’t know, trans masc- due to my intersexuality I’m probably going to have to be going through ‘feminizing’ HRT in the near future and people would STILL hate me lol.

(@this-is-intersexism idk if you’d like to take a look at this post as well?)

[mtkft]

Three years ago tonight, I started something I’ll never regret: estrogen.

Six days after that, my bloodwork showed I’m good to start spironolactone. which I can’t quite say the same for, but will grant that it seems to have helped the pace of things.

I am pleased to report to Baby Us of three years ago, to transfems on HRT, to every other user of hormones, to not users of hormones, and especially to not havers of access to HRT just yet that this has brought no more and no less than pure trans joy. It saved so many versions of our lives. We would not be anything resembling this if we didn’t get it as easily as we did when we finally moved on it.

This should be everyone’s joy, emphatically, and anyone else still standing in the way of it sickens us to no end.

[death-limes]

psa since my neurologist just told me this.

if you have epilepsy and take birth control or feminizing HRT: BEWARE OF ESTROGEN, but progesterone is your friend.

estrogen is a natural proconvulsant, meaning it can cause or make you more vulnerable to seizures. progesterone is a natural anticonvulsant, meaning it prevents or makes you less vulnerable to seizures.

(source of the below screenshot: https://www.americanbrainfoundation.org/how-hormones-affect-seizures/)

i was taking an estrogen-based birth control while seeing the same neurologist for YEARS and he only just told me this. for some reason. 🙃

anyway i know estrogen is often considered necessary for “full” hormonal transition, but there are still other options to suppress masculine features (progesterone, anti-androgen therapy, SERMs). you can also just take lower doses of estrogen (“microdosing” — i hate that word, but that’s how it’s referred to online). if you use full-dose estrogen anyway, it might mean increasing your doses of anticonvulsant medication.

as for birth control, there are estrogen-free pill options like Slynd (prescription) and Opill (over-the-counter)— though they can be more expensive and not as widely covered by insurance compared to estrogen-based birth control. There are also non-pill options like implants, shots, and IUDs, which are more invasive but still avoid estrogen.

(don’t just trust this post btw. i looked all this stuff up & put it here for your convenience, but look stuff up yourself too. i’m not perfect, and your health is worth the extra research.)

[transnonbinarysupport]

What type of estrogen do you use?

Injection-Estradiol valerate

Injection- Estradiol cypionate

Sublingual- micronized estradiol

Pellet implant- estradiol

Patch- estradiol

Gel- estradiol

Oral- Estrone Sulfate

Oral- estradiol valerate

Oral- micronized estradiol

Other

Voting ended onMay 12, 2025

I am curious about how common different methods of feminizing HRT are, so here's a poll!

This is all the different methods that I could find online and by asking around, but I'm sure I've missed some, so feel free to let me know.

I also haven't included anti-androgens or progesterone here, mostly due to tumblr poll constraints.

[auramgold]

advice for tgirls newly starting HRT because literally no one warned me about this in advance when i started years ago:

when your endo or guides online mention "breast buds", they mean it literally. the earliest stage of breast development is a tender lump that forms right under the nipple, and it is the seed from which the rest of the breasts grow around

despite it being a hard lump on your chest after your endo warned you about cancer risk, it is NOT cancer.

those lumps (one on each side) will remain as your breasts develop (though it gets much less tender with time), because in fact those are literally your mammary glands.

(in fact, if you got on a more specialized hormone regimen, they literally could start lactating if you wanted them to, though the specifics on that are beyond the scope of this post)

you only need to start worrying about a lump potentially being a tumor after your breasts have developed more if it's separate from the mammary glands, most notable by it being very asymmetric (that is, only on one side). you are not going to develop breast cancer only six months into HRT, i promise you that.