fuck cis shit

[-] tuck_cls_shit ZZ FT '94, HRT '96, SRS ‘05 35 points 10 months ago

Trans women age like wine. Better, on average, than cis women. This is one of the few actual advantages of being
trans, so exploit it for whatever it's worth to you.

I know this sub and askTG attracts a lot of people who are early in transition or even pre-everything. If there was one
thing I'd like you to know, if it was possible for me to broadcast one thing vividly into your brain, it would be that the
long-term outcomes of transfeminine transition are generally fantastic. You ever see a trans women who's been on
estrogen for twenty years? Good chance not, as people tend to gravitate away from trans spaces as they progress
through transition. But it's really nice: pear-shaped figure, near no body hair, gorgeous skin, conspicuously female.
And they almost always look younger than their age. Estradiol doesn't fuck around.

It's also an advantage to not have your estrogen levels fall with age. And I sure as hell have no plans to ever go
through menopause -- if I have to bribe a cabana boy to bring me estradiol shots in the nursing home I will.

Cis women tend to not only lose E levels through their thirties and forties and beyond, they usually virilize a bit,
especially after menopause, due to concomitant higher androgen levels: they grow some facial hair, get more belly
fat, maybe even bald a little or lose the top range of their singing voice. Not a lot of fun. Also not happening to me if I
have any say-so in the matter.

Most sex-specific gene expression in humans relies on total exposure to sex steroids over time (if you think of your
estrogen, progesterone, or testosterone levels over time as a graph, total exposure would be the area under the
curve.) There can come a point when your relative estrogen and androgen exposure is similar to that of your cis
woman peers. The younger you start the shorter that "catch up" period is, but it's a thing that happens to most trans
women eventually. An older trans women once told me that she "passed" much better at 50 than she did at 40, not
because her body changed a lot in those ten years (she had already been on hormones for ages), but because her
peers did. I thought that was a fairly interesting perspective.

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