if the main thing stopping you from transitioning is a fear you won’t be hot: i’m sorry, but that is literally just gender dysphoria.
it gets much better once you start treating it, i promise.
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I remember over 10 years crying my eyes out accepting that I had to transition even if that meant I’d be ugly and disgusting and holy shit how quickly I was proven how misplaced those fears were.
It took me forever to just start. I thought I would be an ugly, bald, blob of fat. Now just over 6 months HRT many changes! While I'm not beautiful, I'm also not ugly. My hair is growing back! I have lost 85 pounds and I'm well on my way to reaching my goal by new years day.
Coming up on 2 years on E in August. Body acceptance can be hard sometimes, but I wouldn't have it any other way. I have tits now and I am hot. My mind has been rewired in a way that makes way more sense to me. It might not be exactly what I pictured, but it's better, and way better than before
Everyone I know who has transitioned has been hotter after transitioning than they were before!
No, seriously. Being comfortable in your body makes you hotter. It's a fact.
An unfortunate thing about not feeling "hot" is that dysphoria can compare you to standards so oversaturated in media as to be redundant, giving a false impression of being below average.
Anyway, the cis people you think are hot (and who also have dysphoria) likely admire lots of trans people.
It absolutely crossed my mind. But a lot of thoughts did and I'll never regret transitioning.
I don't think I'm particularly most people's yum, but I'm me.
For the non dysphoric crowd, ever had your hairline recede and felt like an ugly?
Then ever leaned into it, shaved your head bald and were like "Damn, not bad."
They doing that but on like Hard Mode and New Game +
Legitimately had this conversation with myself multiple times in the last few YEARS and still didn't grasp what it meant until a couple months ago.
Already almost two months in on HRT, we'll see how it works on me, I guess
wasted 6 years because of this
I can confidently say that if you're on the fence about it and genuinely have spent time considering starting HRT, you should try it out.
omg YESSSS
Even before I knew I was trans I always thought I was ugly. And I thought I was gonna be an ugly girl if I transitioned, though that didn't bother me personally too much.
Well, a bit over a year later and 4 months worth of E, and even *I* think I am actually rather cute now lol
I think what I'm wrestling with currently is something similar:
I know I'll be *hot* as a women, but I'm afraid of not being *accepted* by those who are attracted to me now in my dude body.
As much as I would have liked to have been beautiful for me the worry & desire was to pass. Now I'm not going to lie that speaks also of my anxiety issues & need to go under the radar.
Never did the idea of the Op or HRT scare me, it was the idea of the struggle that held me back for decades.
So, like, hormones don't exist for my gender (agender, rip) but reading this *still* hit like a brick. I have some eggs to share this with next time they mention feeling this way.
"Why would you want to go from being a good looking man to an ugly woman?"
Because it's not about being attractive to other people. It's about being true to myself. And everyone's hot to someone.