Breast Growth For Genetic Males - Transgender

HRT Dosage & Post-Orchiectomy Question

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:02:13 +0000

Hello,

I'm scheduled to get bottom surgery in the next few weeks. My question is, for the other trans women who have had a orchiectomy done, how much did your HRT regime change afterwards? With no testicles, I won't need my leuprolide injections anymore to suppress my testosterone levels. I'm also on 200mg of progesterone daily and 1ml (5mg) of estradiol cypionate per week currently.

I'll be talking with my prescribing doctor after the surgery is completed, but I'm curious to hear from other trans women how (or if) their estradiol dosage was decreased to maintain ideal hormone levels?

Cyproterone acetate

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:24:48 +0000

Hi im curious about cyproterone acetate but heard its dangerous over 12.5 mg.
Does anyone have any info on this.

Hormonal transition and bodybuilding

Sun, 23 Nov 2025 10:59:17 +0000

Hello everyone, I've always done weight training; before my transition, I did weight training for 15 years straight. This photo of me is from a time when I only used weight training to shape my body, meaning zero hormones. Now, it's been 4 months since I started my transition with 2 mg of bioidentical transdermal estradiol and 50 mg of spironolactone, changing to bicalutamide ten days ago to preserve male sexual function, i.e., to keep my penis functional. But something that worries me is what will happen to my leg and glute workouts. Will this therapy reduce the muscle mass I gained in my buttocks, as seen in the photos? I know that muscles are maintained by testosterone, and if testosterone is blocked, there tends to be a reduction in overall muscle mass... will this even affect the glutes, which define my feminine curves so well?

Pain during erections

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:15:59 +0000

Hello darlings. I've been on Estreva 1.5 - 2 mg and spironolactone 50 mg therapy for 4 months, and I experience pain during erections, which are incomplete. Is this normal? Will it go away with time, or will I always have this problem? The sensation is like if it is not supporting the growing, when it shrink the pain stops. I use estradiol gel on my inner thighs, up to my groin, before bed and I get an erection while naked. Could my testicles and penis be receiving too high a dose of estradiol overnight, causing some kind of internal problem?

test

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 19:20:29 +0000

testing

Orstrogel.dosages

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 18:42:47 +0000

Hi im changing from tablets to gel as ive been told its safer.
Just wondering what the dosages are.

Pg. cream for testicles

Sat, 24 May 2025 04:07:00 +0000

Hello. I would like to ask those with experience whether regular application of bioidentical PG cream to the testicles shrinks them? Unfortunately, I have severe dysphoria and I would like my erection to disappear permanently. Or is there another option?

Psychology

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 06:07:17 +0000

Hello. I've been really bothered by that "thing" down there for a while now. I just want those two unnecessary balls not hanging there.Does anyone else have these feelings? How do you deal with this feeling? What can I do to make them go away? I don't like them, I want them to stop, to disappear from there. I want advice and methods from you.

Time for actual HRT?

Sun, 02 Mar 2025 05:02:41 +0000

I’m turning 25 in a little over 2 weeks. I have been dealing with differing degrees of gender dysphoria for the entirety of my adolescence and adulthood thus far. I really only became consciously aware of this dissonance a little under 6 years ago, but it has continued to worsen and I have had immense difficulty processing and coping with it. After coming out to my Mom as non-binary 3 years ago (a conversation that didn’t quite go how I wanted or expected) and moving out of my parents house, I have made a great effort to come to terms with my gender. I am now at a bit of a crossroads, and one road in particular is basically screaming at me to take it.

I have known about HRT for years. I don’t quite know when exactly I started taking the idea seriously, but nearly everything about it is appealing to me. I’m not going to get into the nitty gritty details of that here, but long story short I started taking 1000 mg of Carlyle pueraria mirifica daily starting on February 3rd. Last Tuesday night I decided to try Swanson ovarian glandular. Same deal at first, just one dose daily, but that only lasted for 2 days. The last 3 days I have taken one in the morning and one in the evening.

Yeah I am like 98% sure I am a woman. Estrogen is hitting me like a fucking truck. I can finally see a ray of light shining through the dark clouds that have made up my entire existence. I’m realizing that I have been suffocating in testosterone for the last 13 or so years. Words can hardly describe what I have been going through the last few days, but with this newfound clarity has also come a great deal of anxiety and fears that I am still struggling with. I got whacked with the most intense wave of bottom dysphoria a few days ago, and now I’m uncomfortable getting erections, which seem to be happening more than I’d like. It’s safe to say I will eventually be on some kind of prescribed HRT, but I am still just terrified to truly commit and make the appointment.

This DIY experiment was intended to be a stepping stone towards that, I did not expect this stuff to smack me in the face like it has. Granted the one thing I am realizing I didn’t mention yet is that I have been taking various DHT blockers off and on over the last few years to help stop my hair from falling out (something which I have had trouble even admitting until recently because of how much it hurt me to say). At some point in the last couple weeks I tried white peony which I have been taking almost every day. I’m a little anxious about my hormones being all out of wack even though I now know I need estrogen. The hypochondriac in me is saying that I shouldn’t be doing this with something like ovarian glandular or herbs in general. I would like to do this in a safe way that feels a bit more official but I am curious about what some of you have to say about my experience. I’m finally ready to do this so any words of encouragement or advise are also both welcome and appreciated.

Thank you

Point of prides annual trans surgery fund is now open for applications

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 19:23:43 +0000

Check this out. Point of pride is now accepting applications for their transition surgery fund grant. It's open from nov 1-30th.

Here is the link:

https://www.pointofpride.org/annual-transgender-surgery-fund

Where's my place?

Sat, 14 Sep 2024 05:52:26 +0000

Where is it? I can't find my tribe, I can't find my place in the world. I belong nowhere. My world view, my ideas, none fits anywhere at all and rejection just keeps on going. I try to fit in but fit nowhere. Cishet men see me as a sex object or some sort of subhuman. Cishet women mostly give sort of lukewarm surface level acceptance in which I still am just a dude in a dress or "man 2.0" to them. Feminist spaces aren't good for me as to a lot of them, I'm not a woman either. They invalidate my existence and my body just as badly as patriarchal male spaces do. I don't belong with trans people either because I'm not some dumb fuck hypersexual "transfeminine" or blue haired queer Pride christmas tree. Intersex people shun me for being transsex as they invalidate us weirdos like that.

I'm always too much something or too different to almost everybody and belong nowhere. As time goes on, I fall in love even deeper with the term "trans separatist" coined by someone on Reddit who posts about DIY HRT stuff. I really like that persons thinking. Its spot on what I feel. I'm pissed off, there's a lot about (radical) feminism I relate to, but to them I'm not even a woman. They're just as toxi cis hetero normies like others. TERFs can eat shit and die for all I care. Some times I feel I'm rather just lonely, just exist in my own little world with the few people who are very dear to me. The few who understand and love me for being me and not think I'm something else entirely.

Oh and the feminism, its so strange how I'm torn about many ideas about it. At the same time I so much detest misogyny of all kinds and abusive men have left me so scarred that I'm often quite cynical about men in general. But I know many absolute gems. And then I so much hate beauty standards and all this make believe performance of femininity, but at the same time I'm all into it. Not to please pigs though, this is where many feminists will get pissed off at me, that I say I'm a feminist but I still adhere to a lot of these perfomative sides which are seen as creations of patriarchy. Am I really playing into oppression of women by dressing up in a way that flaunts my body? Or when I practice makeup? Or when I say fuck the gender norms which are total bs anyway.... All while working my ass off with transitioning my body to conform to those gender norms and do it even in an exaggerated manner.

Am I not worthy then? Does it invalidate me somehow that I absolutely love to play with performative femininity? Or that I want my body changes and surgeries to make me extremely curvy and conventionally attractive? Have I been mindfucked to want these things and feel right and at home in a body like this? Or how I get so much joy from the performative side of womanhood?

Why can't I fit in with anybody? Why can't I be allowed to exist as uniquely me? No two people are exact copies of each other, back when I was kid, it was cool to be unique and outcast and a bit weird. No fucking labels and uniqueness was awesome. What happend to it? Why can't I be goddamn accepted for being me? I know less than five people who are very close to my experience in life and none of them are exactly like me... So then what? Where's my place? I'm such a mix of things that it makes me an outsider to almost everybody.

I guess its sort of take it or leave it. If being uniquely weird oddbird that doesn't fit in is too much... I guess I'll be alone then. Or get a new puppy, dogs don't discriminate as they're smarter than people in that way, their love is unconditional.

Social transitioning by stealth as a male

Fri, 30 Aug 2024 09:30:38 +0000

Been pondering this question which has driven me to do this post to gather thoughts from you lovely people on here, but unsure if it should be in the Male staying Male section but then decided it was better here as I posed myself the question.....

Always considered myself as male staying male, but am I really transgender/transitioning, possibly by stealth?

Since discovering girls at the age of 11, I've grown to love the female form and everything about them, including how they have a much wider choice of clothes. Even to the extent that I soon started wearing girls jeans & dungarees (long boring story but nowt to do with cross dressing) then through my teen years added leggings and a few girls t-shirts / jumpers etc.
The only remit I had was my mam's, God rest her soul, decree absolute that she would allow me to wear anything as long as I still looked like a boy. Which actually worked well with me as I had zero desire to look or be a girl.
Now in my mid-late 50s I'm still buying clothes using the same remit with generally a 75% womens / 25% mens split. However, when I sorted my wardrobe out a couple of months ago to swap my winter/summer stuff, I realised that over 90% of my clothes are from the women's section and probably has been for quite some time!

Furthermore, over the years I now:
- added skirts, tops, jumpsuits, playsuits, etc but all very plain styles
- shave / epilate all body hair
- paint my nails, mostly blues, greys, browns, greens and the odd pink or red
- had my naval & nipples pierced
- added a face skincare routine - cleanse, moistures and treat but found womens products were best (mens tended to give me rashes/spots etc)
- on occasions simple makeup, concealer, foundation, mascara and the odd subtle lipstick, rouge and eyeliner/shadow
- have my eyebrow wax and always ask for thinned and defined female curved brows

All of which are more associated with being female!

And that's all before I started on my NBE journey!

Initially intrigue was 'can men really grow boobs witha few simple herbs?' - clearly yes they can Intrigue turned into a desire to grow a pair of A/B breasts, but once I had the making a some small curves up top I realised my body proportions was all a kilter, so my goals changed to focussing more on all over body feminisation with ideally no more than nice feminine rounded B-cup breasts.
This has taken me through PM > HRT > HRT with BO and I fully intend to continue, health permitting. I'm loving all the changes that it all brings softer skin, out of this world orgasms, changing body shape to be more curves top and bottom, the chilled out mind, clarity of though and far better concentration levels and happier in myself.

So much so I've decided its time to get my bloods done so that I can understand where/how to tweak my regime to better achieve my goals.

When I look at all this, there does seem a lot of evidence tipping the balance to some form of transitioning!

In my mind, I'm still most definitely a man and want to stay that way, I continue to present male and thankfully have zero body dysmorphia, no gender issues, no desire to cross-dress or present as female, but yet there are lots of feminine associated traits that I indulge in.

This begs the question, that realistically only I can answer -

Can I carve out a solution to have breasts with a more female shaped body, wear mostly womens clothes and do all the other feminine associated things I do and stay male, or have I socially transitioned by stealth ???

Trans Women Grip Strength

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 19:30:21 +0000

I had to laugh today when I saw this graph in the article I was reading. While I realize that TransFemme Science is frowned-upon here, I did a search about bone changes in relation with HRT.

The article pretty much confirmed my suspicions going in about TFS, but I literally lol'd when I saw the graph about Trans Women's Grip Strength lol.

For the record, now consider pickle jars a formidable foe lol.

https://transfemscience.org/articles/bone-shape-changes/

Point of pride financial assistance fund for HRT

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 23:45:37 +0000

Click to apply for financial aid for HRT through point of pride.

https://www.pointofpride.org/hrt-access-fund?mc_cid=a0d8123fb9&mc_eid=c22d26ad6b

Deadline is this Sunday June 30th.

HRT finical assistance fund by point of pride

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 23:41:57 +0000

https://www.pointofpride.org/hrt-access-fund?mc_cid=a0d8123fb9&mc_eid=c22d26ad6b

Click the link to be directed to point of prides application page for financial assistance with getting HRT. Dead line is June 30th 2024, this Sunday.