Thankfully my parents are very accepting especially my mother. She was so happy when I told her that this was the name I chose. She told me the name before because it came up what my brother and I would have been called a few years before I came out and I savoured it ever since :)

My parents had one picked out for each gender (I was successfully hiding it on every ultrasound image) and now I use the name they picked for a girl.

Congratulations!

During the first 2-3 years I’d get really tired, then really hungry, then my tits would get really sore after a few days of it.

After one and a half years of HRT I had all of that so far except the sore tits. A mild discomfort like a pulling or stabbing feeling or some itching but nothing else and the past year basically nothing. How long can growth breaks be for breasts?

When you do it the first time your hair is still very thick and it will hurt more. The more you do it the less it will hurt because the regrowing hair won’t be as thick (because they didn’t have as much time to grow) and it won’t hurt as much. Long story short: just keep doing it in regular intervals (2-3 weeks) and you will get used to it.

When I first started taking my patches I had a tingly feeling where the patch was applied and in the rest of my body (but not as strong). Now about one and a half years later I don’t get that feeling anymore (still on patches).

Yeah I know that it takes time and also that the growth comes in spurts sometimes.

Thank you so much! And don’t get discouraged, everyone progresses differently and waiting is certainly the most difficult part of this whole process. Currently I wish my breasts would develop a little faster but alas I can’t do anything about it but wait.

So happy for you! 😄 it’s a big step

I can recommend patches. I’ve been very happy with them although I do recommend to also apply something like tegaderm over them so they don’t fall off as easily it also helps to not notice them as much on your skin.

Very happy for you! ♥️

Thank you. This is really helpful feedback! ♥️

Thank you! ♥️

I mostly practiced with the whisper siren exercise: https://youtu.be/F6Noi2qERus

I practiced that every time I found space in my day and then I also practiced by just reading aloud for myself (news articles mostly) and recorded that with this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.DevExtras.VoiceTools which helped me get the pitch down although the female and male ranges can be misleading since my mum for example goes into the male range sometimes and is mostly in the lower female range and also in the androgynous range of pitch.

But getting the resonance down with the whisper siren exercise is the most important thing.

The hardest part for me so far was actually using my voice in front of another person though. My mum is the only person so far that has heard my new voice in person 😅

Edit: this all happened over the course of almost a year with multi month breaks in between because I got a bit discouraged without real feedback from other people and I didn’t take any voice lessons from professionals.

Thank you so much! It’s so weird to me because when I listen to myself it sounds so unfeminine. I’m almost crying from your comment 😭

Thank you so much! ☺️

Hi 😅

Thank you 👀

I hope you do! 💕

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