Ten years on is a good time to sit back and think about how my life has changed since I started to transition gender from female to male. How has my life changed? Is it better or worse now? Would I do it again if I had to live the same life again? In short, was transitioning ...
I got top surgery in the beginning of 2021, and just a few months later, I started testosterone. People see the changes in my body, my posture, and they think it’s purely from the hormones. But I made conscious decisions to better my relationship with my body. None of these things...
Speaking broadly, androgens are drugs whose effects become more pronounced with increased dosages. To put it another way, if you take more, you will get hairier faster. Therapeutic dosages of testosterone, especially for hormone replacement in FTM guys, are quite low: along the lines of what ...
Learn to navigate an FTM, MTF, or nonbinary name change Many transgender people choose a new name when they transition, and for many different reasons. Some want to distance themselves from an old identity, while others ... How to Cope with Not Being Able to Transition Get started on the...
I got top surgery in the beginning of 2021, and just a few months later, I started testosterone. People see the changes in my body, my posture, and they think it’s purely from the hormones. But I made conscious decisions to better my relationship with my body. None of these things...
The right-wing crusade against transgender people has led to an assault on this lifesaving treatment. Here, Cosmopolitan talks to five young trans people around the country about how, in reality, the health care changed their whole world.