RosethornRanger (it/its) 🏳️⚧The less the state gets to weigh in on, the harder it is for it to get rid of us.
pocket expert 🔞@RosethornRanger are there any resources for trans men or are we expected to just rawdog this reality on our own
not combative but it's kinda Sad that diyhrt is only talked about in context of those who undergo feminizing therapy and not masculinizing one (let alone people who want a mix and match for custom results) as if idk, we don't deserve autonomy
not combative but it's kinda Sad that diyhrt is only talked about in context of those who undergo feminizing therapy and not masculinizing one (let alone people who want a mix and match for custom results) as if idk, we don't deserve autonomy
Miranda // erin // Eileen@ko @RosethornRanger it’s talked about by people who do it and have experience with it that comes from knowing how their own body reacts and how to manage their own hormonal health.
some authors of the online resources that do also mention as much of masculinizing HRT as they can without that experience, but usually with disclaimers saying as much. they’re not professionals, they figure it out on their own, in their free time, yet they take responsibility for the effects of this information on other people’s lives. they decide to put in that work and take that responsibility because it affects their own lives in the first place.
all those resources exist because we did not wait for anyone else to give us permission to have that autonomy you mention, we took it without asking. that’s kinda the point of autonomy.
I’m kinda active in that effort to spread information. sometimes, I have conversations about DIY HRT with other trans people and sometimes that includes transmasc people. so far, I’ve been consistently confused by their reactions to the topic being much more, uh, apathetic? than I get from transfems, even when I say that the DIY community is very aware of the lack of transmasc-focused information that we need contributions, that we need more of it to publish it along what’s already there about transfem stuff.
I don’t know if that’s a universal thing, but it’s definitely been my own experience. and yes, I know, I’m sure there are some transfem authors of those resources who don’t care about trans guys, fuck them, but also there’s enough of those who do care to give space and reach to stuff written by transmasc people about their HRT.
but y’all first need to do what we did - organize and get people with the lived experience of DIY HRT to put in the work to contribute based on that experience.
and then keep talking about it as much as we do, to make others aware that it’s a possibility and maintain that awareness. it doesn’t happen by itself, it takes work too, as all important community stuff does.
check out diyhrt.info and diyhrt.wiki for sites that do include transmasc-focused resources. let your transmasc friends know about them. tell them to do the same thing. get this going.
@erin @RosethornRanger i would write a whole ass essay on why the guys are apathetic (maybe it has something to do with "T is poison" mentality spread by the girls in many queer spaces and the wider problem of (trans)masc queers being left on their own especially when they're far into their transition; the spaces fucking HATE mascs unless they feminize themselves back to be palatable to the rest, and that's a problem both cis and trans queer people are to be blamed for), but this is not the profile, time or space to do so
i thankfully know my shit, i am more than welcome to provide sources to a brother in need - the only thing that stopped me from making a guide that can be shoved down every trans guy's throat is that i only have my own dosage experiences with T as reference points and i don't want to put people in danger, just cuz those doses work for me they might nor work for someone else
i suggest we start first with not demonizing testosterone (even if it has given unwanted effects to some trans folk), and actually start talking about the possibility being there, and removing the monopoly on the word trans meaning just anyone transfeminine (as there is a god awful amount of normies who think trans = transfem and don't even know trans guys exist)
it's a collaborative effort, don't tell us to just "go our own way and organize", because if we do that there's still going to be complaints that we aren't listening to every other demographic which is apparently Our Job Somehow
i thankfully know my shit, i am more than welcome to provide sources to a brother in need - the only thing that stopped me from making a guide that can be shoved down every trans guy's throat is that i only have my own dosage experiences with T as reference points and i don't want to put people in danger, just cuz those doses work for me they might nor work for someone else
i suggest we start first with not demonizing testosterone (even if it has given unwanted effects to some trans folk), and actually start talking about the possibility being there, and removing the monopoly on the word trans meaning just anyone transfeminine (as there is a god awful amount of normies who think trans = transfem and don't even know trans guys exist)
it's a collaborative effort, don't tell us to just "go our own way and organize", because if we do that there's still going to be complaints that we aren't listening to every other demographic which is apparently Our Job Somehow
@erin @RosethornRanger that being said i'm just One Guy and not a local CEO of the transmasc population in my region, hell i'm literally a neet who's the token trans guy in my friend group 