Understanding Gender Dysphoria: A Spectrum of Treatment Options!

[@ma-sa1986]

I tried every method I could, therapy, acceptance, “coming out”, ignoring it and hoping it would go away, and drowning myself in work… hormones are the only thing that provided any significant alleviation of gender dysphoria. When I started HRT, 90% of my gender dysphoria went away within 6 months of starting. However, when I tried to stop hormones, my dysphoria returned 10-fold within a month! So it’s not as easy to say “you can stop hormones at anytime”, I wasn’t able to stay off of them. I’ve been back on for 6 months (1 year total) and my dysphoria is mostly suppressed, now I’m just dealing with the anxiety of social transition since I’m starting to “male fail”.

[@Zh09SpMAvE]

This is great. I used to feel like transition was this overwhelming path one has to take. I'm still not sure whether I want to start hormones. However, now that I've started with laser hair removal of my facial hair I'm already feeling much better about myself. In the meantime I'm also slowly working on my appearance. I like to take it slowly.

[@davidyoungquist6074]

Thank you for this video. I've been taking things in baby steps. I had people pressure me to jump right into it, but that made things worse. 😢 I have to take this in my time, and it may never happen, but these suggestions help. Again, thank you.

[@m.7877]

Thank you for this!

[@maygayming5275]

My gender identity overall has been extremely static. I didn't have the same words for it until 2017, but I've always been bigender. And I've never experienced social dysphoria in a conventional way, like pronouns, my deadname, what gender people think I am, clothes none of it matters to me. But I experience crippling body dysphoria and before I came out being in the closet was extremely dysphoric because I wasn't being authentic. After 5 years of HRT I'm added T gel to my HRT and have resigned myself to needing top surgery (augmentation) and I have PPV in the works. After a year of E and supplemental T I'm going to start exploring more comfortable options with a new HRT doc. Other than that, I'm in a good place as far as my transition goes.

[@colmonhs]

🙌🙌

[@goldcoasttime]

She will never tell you that you will suffer from headaches, night sweats, menopause, stroke and paralysis at a very young age. If you stop taking hormones, Don't do it.