u/42burneracc42

Hi, so I have a quick question. I started T roughly 3 months ago and I’m currently getting my 250mg/ml shot every 2.5 weeks before switching to a higher less frequently prescribed dose. Where I live it’s rather uncommon to be allowed to do your own shot, meaning a nurse at my endo has to do it for me. The placement my doctor ordered is on my backside at hip height (pretty much right over my ass lol) and each time it switches between left and right to keep a balance. My last shot was done on the right and only at home I realized that this is where it was also done the time before that. I suppose it’s not that big of a deal but I’m kind of freaking out about it anyway tbh :/ especially considering that next time it will probably be done on the right side as well because the nurse probably misread it on my file. Does anyone know if this has any consequences for my body?

This is technically a rant/vent post but it does touch on the topic of dysphoria in a sexual context so I figured I’d flair it as “Dysphoria Related Content” (my apologies if this is wrong!)

Okay so, I’m 19 + ftm + on T and have been passing almost entirely since I was like 14 and overall I’m just very used to being perceived as a man. Every time I don’t pass it’s like a punch in the gut because it’s always very unexpected especially cause I’m stealth to a lot of people in my social circle. Anyway, I was at the club with a couple of friends and my girlfriend of two years on Wednesday and most of the people there were from my gf’s school, which is an overall very open minded institution (art school lol). Enough for context. So basically what happened was me and my gf were walking around the grounds outside and ran into some people I didn’t know. They all said hi to my gf and one of them was like “oh and who are you? Are you two-“ and then they made the scissoring gesture with their hands insinuating they thought we were a lesbian couple. I was like “oh no no I’m her boyfriend” and they apologized and were kind of embarrassed and Idk I was drunk af so it didn’t really hit me in the moment but I’m super down about it now. I’m insanely dysphoric about the concept of “scissoring” since it’s pretty much entirely associated with cis women and I just feel super weird about it and now I’m scared something like this could happen again soon.

Not expecting any replies to this post (unless u want to say something), I just needed a place to share this in a kind of anonymous space since I feel too humiliated to talk about it to any of my friends 🙃

Hi, hoffe die Frage kommt nicht als dumm rüber oder so, aber ich bin ein 19 jähriger trans Mann auf Testo und ich weiß irgendwie nicht so ganz, wie ich mit potenziellen Mastek-Chirurgen Kontakt aufnehmen soll. An sich würde ich behaupten, dass ich die nötigen Ressourcen habe:
- bin seit über zwei Jahren bei einer ausgesprochen guten Dysphorie spezialisierten Therapeutin, welche meine Indikation für Testo geschrieben hat und nun auch an meiner Mastek Indikation arbeitet
- in meiner Stadt gibt es (soweit ich weiß) zwei Kliniken/Praxen, die die Mastektomie durchführen, und jemand in meinem Umfeld hat bei einer von denen gute Erfahrungen gemacht

Was mich etwas verwirrt bzw. überfordert, ist die Kontaktaufnahme mit Chirurgen. Was soll ich da sagen/schreiben? Ist Email oder Anrufen besser? Was kann ich erwarten? Wie genau läuft der Prozess (Warten und Beratung) ab?

Falls jemand da Erfahrungen/Ratschläge hat, wäre ich sehr dankbar :’)