u/gulufish

Hi, if anyone has names that aren't strictly feminine relating to the moon, light, stars, luminaries, similar things, for a young man wanting to change his name I'd appreciate a lot hearing them. Even the Spanish version of any of these would be great, as I'm bilingual speak more Spanish than English, slightly. For example a name like Gabriel is in my considerations for being easy to pronounce in Spanish, Uri and Uriel are favorites too, Ariel is a common name that I like where I'm from just for reference though I wouldn't use it. Anything helps, thank you!

Hi, I'm thinking about starting T again. I've been on it for a cumulative (not consecutive) year in the past, and though the only change I really ever got was my voice and acne / weight gain, the former made me really happy. I'd say my voice is in "young cis gay guy" territory and I do appreciate that I pass to others and don't sound like a girl to myself more than words can describe. However, I'd like to start again, and I am curious if there are other ways than the weekly and biweekly injection or the gel that I can mention to my GP who prescribed my hormones. I know of the existence of patches, the possibility of longer term shots someone else can do, testopel, but not much about them and I'd love to hear it. The long term methods are especially something I'd love to hear about if anyone has experience.

Another thing is, if anyone has experience using finasteride and/or spironolactone for the control of certain effects. I think about finasteride for the prevention or slowing of hair loss and I've heard, possibly body and facial hair, and spiro might sound weird at first but I am prone to acne, high blood pressure, and edema, and especially when I'm on T, so avoiding all of these things together would save me a lot of mental anguish. At the same time, the effects of T make me so much happier either way that I don't care if those effects come anyway, it is just a strong preference. I'm not open to arguing about it and insert 900 disclaimers that I'm fully conscious what T does and am ok with it so don't really feel the need to comment on it if you'll try to dissuade me or something, thank you.