for female hormone takers

[cheetaking243 (imported)]

28, or anything in the 20's for that matter, is seriously not too late... in fact, it's still within the ideal range. At that age, the body is still changing, and it is still in its "prime" so to speak, at its physical peak in terms of performance, repair ability, tissue health, and a ton of other things. You should see some of the amazing results from Susan's members, and the 20's are actually the most common age there for when people begin transition. From the pictures that I have seen there of people's results, you have nothing at all to worry about.

Sure, hormones can kind of be a biological crapshoot as far as how effective they are, but yeah, the 20's are SERIOUSLY not too late. Really, there shouldn't be any significant natural biological hindrances until the early-mid 30's or so. After that is when it begins to really lose its effectiveness. But even then, there are a LOT of people, in fact I'd say a majority even, who make it successfully.

I mean, come on, I'm 27 right now, and I JUST started HRT, and already only 2 months in I'm seeing amazing changes. It really does change almost EVERYTHING. (Except for bones, the voice, and facial hair. Those are the only exceptions.) That "I Bigender" girl on Youtube that you showed me, didn't she not transition until she was like 31? Again, you've got to quit getting down on yourself. If you do that, that just means that your mom has won. Fight the good fight. There's still hormonal hope, more than you can imagine, at the end of the tunnel.

[cheetaking243 (imported)]

Also, just to once again reply to the initial post, I want to apologize for how negative I was about the whole thing. I was going through a rough patch when I first posted on this topic. And honestly, part of the reason is because the estrogen has significantly changed the way in which I have to deal with stress. When I was making those angry ranty posts about how badly my emotions were fluctuating, a lot of that was because I was still trying to cope with stress and negative feelings in a male way, by shutting myself up in my room and isolating myself and waiting for the bad feelings to pass. But that doesn't work for me anymore. It just made me focus on all of the bad things even more, and those things kept leading to other things in my mind that were making me depressed, and it just spiraled completely out of control until I was reduced to crying on my bed all day and complaining about how crappy I felt. But once I got outside, and played with my cats, and talked to my roommate, and chatted about it on message boards, I started to feel better, and I've felt better ever since now that I know that this is how my brain can deal with stress now.

So to yet again provide an answer to the opening post, yes, your brain does change, and you really do start to think in a more "female" way. In my case, this means a different way to deal with stress. Back with my normal pre-hormones male brain, I was my own best friend when it came to dealing with stress. I could just sit and relax and soon all of the bad thoughts would go away. But as a girl, I've become my own worst enemy... self-critical, mopey, and when I dwell on one thing that's bothering me, it snowballs into a hundred other things, many of which had nothing to do with the original stressor in the first place. And I went through a very rough patch where I had not learned this yet, and still kept trying to deal with my stress in a "male" way, which just made it worse and worse. But yeah, I've learned now. It's a definite change, and it's a definite learning experience. I have to remind myself when I start feeling bad now "don't forget to deal with this stress in a female way. Look at some cute kittens. Talk to people. Listen to some happy music. Go for a nature walk. Do something that gets you out of your room and makes you feel connected to people and to the world." And now that I've realized that my brain is responding to stress in this more female way, and started dealing with it as such, I've ceased to have any problems like I was when I was originally posting back at the end of February. The last week and a half, I really have felt that sense of complete calmness like I was hoping for in the first place.

So yeah. It does change, and it's a learning process. But with each step of learning, you feel more and more like yourself, and get happier and happier as a default state, because your mind is starting to match your gender identity, and how you feel like you should have been thinking and feeling all along, more and more. (Again, if someone really is transsexual, that is. I seriously suspect that estrogen would drive cis-gendered men absolutely insane. :p)

[foxytaur (imported)]

sorry for over reacting cheetaking, with bday that recently arrived yesterday I guess I just went ape shit LOL

[thewave22 (imported)]

Does the feeling of the orgasm is diffrent on E? Can u describe it?