u/Educational_Car_7829

99% of whether t works for you is being lean. anyone can get lean. i started t at 21, not in my teenage years and i pass well and mog 90% of cis men irl. the science behind this is that body fat correlates with high levels of the aromatase enzyme. if you are peeled and have almost no aromatase, t works much better. if you are fat or even skinnyfat, no matter how much t you take, much of it will convert back to estrogen. this is why fat ftms almost never pass. they don't just transition to bears, they straight up don't veralize well. if you want to bear mode, do it after you are years on t with a hystorectomy.

building muscle and working out also increases androgen sensitivity. people in this community talk about not wanting to get poon dosed but it has nothing to do with dose . i grew facial hair in my first 6 months on 40mgs. i have been so lean that going up to 80mgs (still not even 100mg which is an average dose) made my test levels dangerously high (over 1200 mg/dl). i maintain average levels of t now post hysto with 40mgs per week, same as my original dose. i have had many mf's say this is a "poondose."

you will transition well if you learn the first thing about endocrinology. learn about it from the same resources cis men do. all you need is test logic ngl, but if you try all of these things and test doesn't work, there are much stronger androgenic compounds out there (any steroid ever) and the more androgens you expose your body to, the more sensitive your body becomes to androgens over time. so androgens work with reverse tolerance essentially. you are not an exception to androgens being powerful substances, you just don't understand how to use them right. it is insane to me how few ftms have done even basic research into PEDs and steroids. it is kind of sad that the average cis gym bro now knows more about endocronology than the average ftm gym bro. make that make sense lol. steroids also have fewer consequences to us bc the fsh and lh supression works in our favor rather than against it. don't do steroids unless u have to but i am just saying thinking its "over" is so ridiculous.

everyone is dooming the fuck out and it is unnecessary. if anyone is genuinly in a rope mindset and thinks i am lying, dm me and ill show you how hopeless i looked pre t at 21 vs how i look now at 27. it is not too late and the passing trans men that you see as ropefuel are not the "genetic 1%." you all can get there.

if i look at any content on youtube or tiktok about transmedicalism, people describe us as believing "you are not trans until you go on hrt and get surgeries and pass." as if we believe people are cis until they do those things. i have been in transmed spaces for a long ass time, since 2016 at least, and have never once heard a single transmed person define it like this. not even the most radical people in the community. it pisses me off how much of a ridiculous misconception this is, and it also does not reflect well on those who say this about us. if you need to strawman your opponent's viewpoint that extent, you must know that they have a point on some level. i can't decide if tucutes willfully misrepresent us, or they are just stupid.

I have started trying to do my part to communicate my ideas of what being a transexual actually means, and how it is a medical condition, without using the word transmedicalism when i am talking to normies or other trans people who are very offline. Every single time i have described what transmedicalism is and why it is important, i have had people agree with me and say it makes a ton of sense.

the most recent example is my friends boyfriend who is quite feminine telling me that he started using he they recently because people kept insisting he was not cisgender due to being a feminine man. i asked him if he has ever wanted tits of a vagina, or felt dysphoric about his male body and he said, no, not at all, ever. then i explained why i think it is more progressive and more true to himself as a feminine gay man to just use he/him. i briefly explained why i define being transexual around my dysphoria and not my presentation or affect (he knows i am transexual because he is my best friend's boyfriend and i am out to very close friends). he agreed and said it made sense and even realized that those people who tried to convince him to use they/them were low key being homophobic.

This is just one of many experiences i have, and the only i get, the more i realize i am not going to "grow out of being a truscum" like everyone used to say. i think now more than ever with the current political climate, it is important that we clean up the image of the trans community to the general public. the safety of dysphoric transexuals matters now more than ever and stating so is not "being a cis bootlicker" or whatever as people in this sub very well know.

maybe we should come up with a new term to replace transmed since it's meaning has been tarnished, but it pisses me off because we should not have to contend with lies and misrepresentation.