Orgasms can have less peak intensity and begin to feel as though they impact the whole body rather than just the genitals. People may have ejaculations with white or clear fluid or even none at all.
Exploring and experimenting with this newfound sexuality and body through sex toys and vibrators can be great, as well as involving a significant other. Within a few months of Estrogen Hormone Therapy, you should assume that you are irreversibly and permanently sterile. Some may maintain a sperm count or have their sperm count return to normal after stopping Estrogen Hormone Therapy, but that is a very rare occurrence. If you want to have children through your own sperm, you can speak to us at HEALOR about preserving your sperm before starting this therapy.
While you are on the hormone treatment and have sex with a woman who can become pregnant, it is a good idea to use birth control. The hormone, estrogen, influences most feminine characteristics. It can be given by pill, injection, or skin preparations like patches, sprays, gels, and creams.
Patches are also safe and effective, but you will need to wear them all the time. They can also irritate the skin. Most transwomen take in estrogen via injection. Injections can cause fluctuating or high estrogen levels, resulting in weight gain, mood swings, anxiety, migraines, or hot flashes. Contrary to popular belief, relatively small doses of estrogen can actually have the most effect on the transition. After going through orchiectomy the removal of testicles or genital surgery, the estrogen dosage should be lowered by the doctor.
Without testicles, you will need less estrogen for good health and feminine characteristics. You will periodically need to get liver function, cholesterol, and diabetes screenings to check on your health while on estrogen. The risks of strokes, cancer, and blood clots are small but do increase.
It is better to follow standard testing guidelines according to your age. The risk of breast cancer can slightly increase but still remains lower than that of a non-transgender female.
After years of Estrogen Hormone Therapy, it is a good idea to get breast cancer screenings, depending on your age and risk factors. This is especially true for transwomen who have been using estrogen for many years. I spent my teenage years and early twenties desperately wishing I could be a girl — but obviously that didn't mean I was transgender or anything, right?
I tied my brain in knots, pursuing enlightenment through endless self-interrogation: do I really want to be a girl, or is this a weird kink? When diagnosing trans people with gender dysphoria, it's common practice for mental health professionals to look at someone's childhood for indicators.
It's been part of the diagnostic criteria for decades: did you want to play with dolls instead of toy cars? Did you vocally insist on wearing dresses instead of pants and shorts? In the past, many therapists have even denied diagnoses to people who failed to show such signs of cross-gender expression. But childhood behavior, I'm sure you'll be shocked to hear, is way more complicated than that.
TransYouth Project founder Kristina Olson reports that on average, "trans kids follow different trajectories than children who simply prefer toys and clothes associated with the opposite gender" and even show more gender nonconformity, on average, than their cis peers. When I was young, I was so scared of the possible consequences for telling anyone I liked how wearing a dress made me feel that I repressed all such expressions for nearly a decade.
I even joined Boy Scouts, one of the most stereotypically masculine youth clubs on the planet. That doesn't mean I'm not trans; it just means I subconsciously understood, even as a five-year-old, that being myself was to invite hostility and ridicule.
Whether you knew who you wanted to be or not, and regardless if anyone saw any clues, your childhood doesn't have to determine who you are as an adult. Gender identity and sexuality may inform one another to an extent, but they exist independently; you don't even have to feel sexual attraction at all for your gender to be real.
A tran without a man, to borrow a phrase, is like a fish without a bicycle. I've written about my own thorny relationship with sissy kink and self-understanding before in the past, but this is something a great many transfems struggle with — particularly those of us who came of age as the internet and thus pornography became more accessible.
Just like with childhood signs or lack thereof, though, the reality is much, much more complicated than medical gatekeepers insist. We live in a society where transfemininity has been overtly sexualized for more than half a century; for many of us, the only transfeminine people we were exposed to growing up were porn stars, sexual deviants in movies like Silence of the Lambs , or assorted sex workers on Jerry Springer.
The first time I recall seeing a woman like me was in a page of escort advertisements in the back of the now-defunct New York Press. The coercive re-contextualization of our identities as based in nothing more than fetish is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Updated visitor guidelines.
Top of the page. Topic Overview Gender identity is your inner sense of being male, female, both, neither, or some other gender. What are the medical options for transitioning? Medical options for transgender people in transition include: Hormone therapy.
This is medicine to help increase or decrease sex characteristics. For example, if you are in transition to male, the hormone testosterone helps develop male physical traits such as hair growth on the face or body.
Or if you are in transition to female, you may take estrogen to produce female physical traits such as an increase in body fat and breast development. Surgery or surgeries. These are procedures that change the look and the function of your physical sex so that it matches the gender you identify with.
What are the nonmedical options for transitioning? Nonmedical options include: Living as your gender identity. This includes changing your clothing, name, speech or other things.
You choose how you feel most comfortable expressing your gender identify. Counseling, which may also be called psychotherapy or therapy. This is professional guidance to help a person, family, or group of people recognize and deal with transgender issues.
It can be done one-on-one or as a family or group. Getting support. It can be comforting and helpful to talk to people who know what you're going through.
You can find these people through local or online groups. If you don't know where to find support, check with: Your doctor.
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