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**CLICK HERE TO SEE THE ARCHIVE** An educational online and in-person archive about transmasculine history and culture. All are welcome, but be cool.

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the Trans Guy Archive's complete guide to Transmasculine HRT

After a couple months of research and personal testimony, we are very pleased to finally publish this extremely extensive guide on testosterone hormone replacement therapy!

The process of getting and taking testosterone is often daunting. The outside hateful rhetoric from bigots doesn't help either. This guide is aimed for anyone interested in hormone replacement therapy, from newcomers to those already on their HRT journey.

Hormone Replacement Therapy

The all-in-one guide to testosterone hormone replacement therapy for trans guys!

Huge thanks to everyone online and in-person who helped contribute to the guide!

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🌱If you're in New York City, we're going to be at Pride Night, hosted by the American Museum of Natural History & the American LGBTQ+ Museum, with drag hosts Pattie Gonia, VERA!, and Sequoia! Come find us by the queer marketplace, we'll have stickers, zines, and books for you to check out! 😎

🌸Get tickets for the event by clicking the link here.

There are also a limited number of free tickets to Pride Night thanks to the American LGBTQ+ Museum! To reserve free admission, fill out this form here. If the form is closed, that means they have run out of tickets.

See you there!

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Very amusing that literally the day I finish grad school I come down with a nasty cold. Regular TGA content resuming once my head isn’t full of mucus 🦠

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You do really just finish graduate school at 2:30 pm on a Monday, huh

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Emergence: A Transsexual Autobiography (1977) by Mario Martino

A significant document in trans masculine history, Emergence is the first full-length published autobiography of a female-to-male transsexual.

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Hi, I am a little worried about the choice of wording regarding the effects of testosterone on the emotions in the guide. Right now it reads as "T makes you aggressive". I believe it should mention that as you're effectively going through a second puberty you might have similar issues of regulating your emotions and be more sensitive to your environment, instead of putting it on T inherently. Yes, hormones cause it, but its not that T itself "changes your emotions" any more than E does.

I know Tumblr is the "piss on the poor" website but what irks me about this comment is that I used *very* specific wording in the article to avoid this type of misinformation. Hormones *do* effect one's emotions quite substantially, but it's on the individual to figure out how to best regulate them.

Examples from the article below:

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That Jewish zine from the 90s was so special. I think about it a few times a week. Many thanks for all your work! Can't wait to see what else you've got that can change my life

Aww yay! We’ve got more good stuff to come! :-)

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Happy anniversary to the Trans Guy Archive :-)

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The oppression of trans guys really just comes back to the patriarchy and misogyny, huh

(from “The Transgender Craze Seducing Our [Sons]”; or, All the Trans Guys Are Just Dating Each Other by Cassius Adair and Aren Aizura)

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I'm graduating graduate school quite soon and I wanted to take a 2 week trip somewhere to celebrate. But unfortunately I am extremely indecisive. Help.

(also for reference the trip would likely be in September)

Where should I go to celebrate?

the UK

Italy

China

Japan

Voting ended onMay 9

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My sister just got neutered (bottom surgery) yesterday! Everything looks to be going well! Gives me hope for my own in a few years 🥳 ✂️

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Ye Olde forcemasc caption from October 1993 issue of the FTM newsletter lol

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"It's your mother, Fred. She wants to know if she can borrow one of your old brassieres."

"Mine is detachable!"

Cartoons by Kevin Horwitz, from the May 1993 issue of "FTM", the quarterly newsletter for female-to-male trans people in the 90s & 2000s.

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A few photos of trans guys/FTMs in the FTM newsletter (May '93)

(note: the full names are uncensored in the original text)

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Today marks the 37th year after Christine Jorgensen's death

Today marks the 37th year of the passing of trans pioneer and celebrity Christine Jorgensen. Jorgensen was famous in the 1950s due to her public transition, including her successful sex reassignment surgery in Denmark. For many, she was their first nod to the possibility of changing your sex/gender. She was also able to advocate for the better treatment of transgender people in America. Notably, Jorgensen considered herself to be transgender, not transsexual.

Jorgensen published an autobiography, Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography, which sold almost 450,000 copies. Relatively unsuccessful as an actor, she worked in nightclubs as a singer and performer for most of her life.

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Anyways y’all should check out TransGuyArchive! The guy who’s running it is real cool and it’s super informative. It’s a good way to refresh from all the trans discourse online right now!

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Poem by "Francis" in the July 1991 edition of FTM, a quarterly newsletter started by Lou Sullivan for the female-to-male community in America and beyond.

Poem transcription below:

THE MAN INSIDE

You sat in the park Beautifully crossing your legs On a bench opposite mine My eyes discreetly but completely Devoured you with X-ray vision Invisible hands touching your breasts Like all men do when in the presence Of sweet radiance like yours. You looked at me, then through me, Like all women do when looking at Their reflection in a mirror.

You walked away, fed the ducks, My eyes followed you down the path As you disappeared through the trees. Tonight I will go to the women's bar Try to find someone as pretty as you A touch, dance, kiss perhaps, But I'm not one of them; The man inside wants out, To be seen more Than their reflection in a mirror.