• misspacific@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      yeah i’m in my 30s and i get routinely carded at events and people place me in my late 20s still.

      a lot of it is genes, but i also: have a good skin care routine, use sunscreen every day, rarely drink alcohol, and use nicotine rarely. those are big factors that shouldn’t be discounted.

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        You using good ole sunscreen (chemical) or the newfangled stuff (physical)? Sad to hear the former carries risks.

        But the physical can’t be convenient… sigh, convenience :)

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      It’s funny to me that this works for both types of HRT; I’m a trans guy in my mid 30s and still occasionally get carded when I buy alcohol. I was hoping HRT would make me look my age, but 15ish years on and it hasn’t happened yet. And might not ever, because my dad looked decades younger than he was up until his death. Good problems to have, I guess?

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      29 pre-hrt here. I hope it will be as magic as you say.

      Gotta relive all the years I missed to dysphora; looking a bit youmger couldn’t hurt -

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        It’s great, because a lot of other trans people are also reliving their younger years that they missed out on lol, so you have a lot of opportunities for fun stuff with other trans people!