Thanks hot Wario in my area! 😊

I inject estradiol valerate and found my appetite increased significantly pretty much immediately. I gained 15 - 20 lbs over 6 months, and now I’m back to the weight I was before I started transition.

Considering you are underweight, don’t underestimate the importance of fat in feminizing a figure. Even if just temporarily it might be good to see this as a time where you intentionally want to put on extra weight (assuming you are suppressing testosterone and maintaining estrogen dominance), because that will help develop breast growth (which are fat stores), and hips and butt (which are also fat stores). Even fat in the face seems to play a big role in feminizing it.

When starting estradiol for the first time it seems to increase appetite, I found this to be especially true in the first 3 - 6 months. Even if estrogen generally is associated with decreased appetite, it’s contextual how it impacts appetite, and in the case of estradiol initiating puberty it increases appetite (even without progesterone).

yeah, during COVID the mayor became famous for running attack ads against the health department, and as a result of his leadership the state legislature stripped the health department of their ability to implement any policies or directives

Well, your OP was about how resolvable your libido is now on HRT, but you didn’t really talk much about how resolvable it was before or what you think accounts for the difference.

Reading between the lines, it sounds like there are many barriers in place that complicate sex for you, and maybe as you have transitioned there has been a shifting nature to the libido that makes it harder to satisfy.

Where before maybe libido was more visual, impulsive, and dissociated from the rest of you and your needs, maybe the HRT has shifted the nature of the libido, from mere craving for sex in isolation to something more like desire for intimacy with all the emotional needs associated with it.

This shift in desire might lead to increased feelings of loneliness, and increased desire for a sexual partner more than pre-HRT. That shifting desire might then create much more distress because of how inaccessible the fulfillment of those needs feels to you, not just because of bodily dysphoria and the inability to embody the kind of sexual person you would want to be with someone else, but also because the libido is now more connected to you and your feelings than the were pre-HRT, so maybe it’s harder to be as indifferent or detached.

This is all highly speculative, though - I don’t really know you, I’m just trying to make sense of what you have told me.

preach

I wish someone IRL was there to give her a big hug

How does it compare to pre-HRT?

oh, yeah - I wish I could have ovaries, that would be amazing; I also wish I could have a uterus, but I guess in some ways it is convenient not to have one (no menstruating). I also like the control I have over hormones by injecting them, rather than ovaries that follow a fertility cycle that would be mostly irrelevant to my needs.

I am sorry for what you have been through, I hope you are able to prioritize your needs and take care of yourself 🧡

yeah, I wasn’t thrilled by the prospect of constant discharge either, but I think I would also just live with it if I felt I felt self-lubrication was a priority. For me the bigger reasons are about the surgery going well, the technique being well-practiced and established, etc.

You missed me with the full swap, though - do you mean you wish they could give you ovaries?

yeah, I agree with this fully - I thought sky’s photo was of a AFAB person, the estrogen is clearly working

and I also agree that cultivating self-love is a good solution here, though I think she has to feel motivated to do that first

This advice seems to assume the person is going to be unhoused because of their family, which may be reasonable, but I couldn’t tell from the OP whether that was actually the case.

yeah, I am opting for penile inversion as well, mostly because that’s what my surgeon is good at, and because it is more of a “tried and true” method with less risk and faster recovery than the other methods.

Though I also might have less motivation than some trans women to have a self-lubricating vagina, namely I’m not young and potentially in situations where I would want to be able to have penetrative sex on demand (not wanting to plan and bring lube, etc.).

My life is much more boring. :-)

lol, living up to your username

I didn’t use a particular recipe, if you search around there are plenty of recipes, e.g.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHKolyIqLWQ
• https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018278-patty-melts

Basically a patty melt is just a hamburger with Swiss cheese and caramelized onions on rye bread with mayo.

I used Beyond Beef, Violife slices, vegenaise, and melt butter, and I made a loaf of white bread instead of rye bread (just didn’t have time to source rye flour, etc.).

For the hamburger adding onion powder, garlic powder, black pepper, and a little vegan Worcestershire sauce works well.

If you want to spruce up the sauce a little instead of just mayo, you can add a little ketchup, dijon mustard, a little garlic powder and cayenne pepper.

Personally I would have enjoyed this more with some grilled broccoli rabe or pickled peppers, but that would have gone even further from being a patty melt.

sorry, yes - can’t believe I mixed these up, lol

The county mayor describes himself as a Rothbardian, and the government here sometimes feels openly hostile to people, but especially to bicyclists. I received a lot of harassment for cycling, it is not supported culturally, and is even viewed as though I am a political enemy of the people. Huge, lifted emotional-support trucks are pretty common here.

I pretty much agree. I tend to be a bit more critical and nit-picky about things, but on the whole I agree that for a queer show, this one is well done. Butler is definitely a presence on-screen, and a welcome one. I hope this show launches his career a bit.

I just need to finish the last episode, but it took me a minute to warm up to it, somewhere around half way it started to have my attention.

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I don’t really know about fashion, but I do find it helpful to learn about your body shape and focus on the form and what is flattering or not on your body. For example, a lot of trans women have inverted triangle or “strawberry” shape because of their broad shoulders. Others have more of an “apple” or square shape if their waist is large enough (usually due to male pattern fat distribution).

Reshaping the body by losing and re-gaining weight is a good long-term project, but in the short term it’s good to know how clothes are going to look on you.