this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2024
50 points (100.0% liked)

Transfem

3229 readers
36 users here now

A community for transfeminine people and experiences.

This is a supportive community for all transfeminine or questioning people. Anyone is welcome to participate in this community but disrupting the safety of this space for trans feminine people is unacceptable and will result in moderator action.

Debate surrounding transgender rights or acceptance will result in an immediate ban.

Posters may express that they are looking for responses and support from groups with certain experiences (eg. trans people, trans people with supportive parents, trans parents.). Please respect those requests and be mindful that your experience may differ from others here.

To make such a request, at the start of the body of your post, not in the title, the first line should look like the this: [Requesting Engagement from _________]

Some helpful links:

Support Hotlines:

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

[Requesting engagement from trans-feminine people on HRT]

I don't yet know when I will begin hormone replacement therapy, but the anticipation leaves me prone to developing expectations I worry are unrealistic.

Not sure how best to explain. My emotions, and sometimes my expression of those emotions, will feel masculine when heightened. Feeling intensely happy or angry about something even unrelated to my identity, those feelings give me dysphoria because of how masculine they seem. It's not that being happy or angry is inherently masculine, of course. The dysphoria comes from the emotion's manifestation seeming masculine.

I don't know if this makes sense, but has anyone experienced something similar and/or seen changes to these sorts of things?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

For sure; I've felt so many strong emotions since starting.

I'll use TV shows as an example. When I watched Parks and Rec before I started, I was aware of the emotional connection I felt between the characters, and of my connection parasocially to them, but it never really bubble up enough to be visible except in the really emotional episodes. Now, I get to really feel the emotions when I watch things like avatar or x-men. I'm not sure that's a good way to describe it, but it.... well it feels more real now.

It also feels more real when I get to experience hurt, but if you can stay away from transphobes with power over an aspect of your life you should be fine.