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i have a decent amount of acne after starting T. I wash my face every night with a cleanser scrub thing but still get lots of blackheads and pimples. Any tips at how to minimize this?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

teenage ~boy~hood.

This has nothing to do with being a boy.

[–] duckythescientist 4 points 2 months ago

The evaluation of acne severity showed that “mild acne” was the most frequent form in all subgroups (92% in adult females, 82% in adult males, 89% in teenage females, and 77% in teenage males, respectively). Additionally, the least frequent form was “severe acne” (1% in adult females, 3% in adult males, 1% in teenage females, and 1% in teenage males). Finally, “moderate acne” was observed homogeneously in all subgroups, though both male groups showed a little higher prevalence of such in comparison with the female groups (15% in adult males and 22% in teenage males versus 7% in adult females and 10% in teenage females) - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5788264/

Still somewhat more of a boy thing, but it's less of a difference than I thought. Also since OP is transmasc, I was hoping framing this as a boy thing would be comforting.