This is a prime analogy.
If you do not have dysphoria, you ARE NOT trans.
The DSM did not change anything except for the name, it’s now Gender Dysphoria. They’ve added new conditions, so in actuality, it’ll be harder for people without dysphoria to have access to hormones and surgery.
Don’t waste my time: What do you think about these things?
I want to know what other people think about these things that will, or may happen during hormone replacement therapy with testosterone. Please reblog this, message me, anonymously or not, and tell me what you think about these things, I would love to know what other people think. Please tell me…
Acne: I didn’t like it, but it’s all a part of puberty. I saw it as a natural progression of a puberty I had to endure late.
Scent: I remeber being surprised about this, yet happy. It was something I didn’t think about until it happened.
Excessive Body Hair: I was neutral about this, my heriatage insists I have hair where I didn’t think hair would be comfortable. Again, part of puberty.
Body Hair (general): Good – I enjoyed this.
Facial Hair: Again, good. It couldn’t come fast enough.
Receding, Thining or Balding Hair: I’ve lost a good amount of my head hair and I mourned the loss initially. I felt it was unfair to have only been able to live as I was supposed to for such a short while with a full head of hair. Recently I’ve been working to overcome my insecurities regarding balding. Shaving my head helps.
Fat Redistribution, smaller breasts, hips and thighs, increased stomach fat: Loved the smaller hips and thighs, my chest didn’t change drastically until surgery and I haven’t had an increase in stomach fat.
Increased Libido: Dislike. I already had a high libido and it often exacerbates my dysphoria.
Downstairs Growth: Neutral leaning on positive. It allowed me to see my junk as more male however I’ll never be happy with what I have until I get surgery.
The Little Boy Book
Free downloadable .pdf format of “The Little Boy Book” – written by E Kelly & E Webster, about a family with a Father who has transsexualism. It’s written in clear and simple language.
You can also purchase a hardcopy of the book here.
I am just starting to come out as trans (only my sister knows).I have two young children and I am a single parent. I’m still trying to decide what is best for my family…but now that I have admitted it to myself, it’s more difficult not to do something about it. My boys are young enough now that they wouldn’t be weirded out much by my transition but I still feel that I have a lot to learn. Anyway, Hi!
Hey,
I can’t imagine how difficult it would be to begin this process whilst already being a parent, In that way I am exceptionally blessed that I had already begun to transition when I met K.
Kids are resiliant as heck, often moreso than a lot of adults when it comes to “difficult” concepts.
Having a solid support network is invaluable in times of change, especially during something as turbulent as transition.
My experience with being a parent differs from yours, so I’m not really able to give any advice or anything. I’ll put a link up for a .pdf version of the children’s book I used when K was being introduced to the concept.
Is anyone else aware of any other father’s on tumblr who happen to suffer from transsexualism, or am I foreveralone.jpg?
my opinion would be that a vast majority of the ftm tag are confused teenagers and hopefully aren’t having children.
I suspect the kinds of people I’m looking for dont post in the ftm tag unless they have a side blog.
I’m really happy about this blog. My wife and I are planning to start a family within a year.
Congrats to you and your wife! Would love to hear about how you progress.
If you hadn’t been outed to your son, would you have told him and if so, when?
That’s a difficult question to answer. I’d spoken about it to my wife at length, and it was a great source of anxiety. Eventually I think I decided to do it when he was a little older; around 13 or so simply because he would be able to understand the concept better. Of course what seems logical in my mind; that is not keeping my medical conditions secret from my son, is often easier to think about in theory than put into practice.
I wish it didn’t have to happen, that he could simply live without needing to know. There would be so much to hide – syringes, doctors appointments, future surgeries, scripts. Ideally he would never need to know. Realistically I don’t want to hide that much of myself away from someone I love….
I still really don’t know the answer.
Yeah, so I’m actually pretty horrible at coming up with ideas for informative posts with regards to being a trans man father. It’s likely that until someone asks a question or I have an unusual moment of inspiration, this blog will mainly be reblogs + commentary.
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