I’m in the process of signing up for voice training at a local hospital speech pathology department. I’ve stalled out with self teaching. I think I’ll still want vfs after since I have a very deep voice naturally and I’d rather my involuntary sounds be pitched up as well.

I don’t think I can shut up long enough to recover

So real lmao. I hate my voice more than anything else though. So vfs is on the top of my priority list.

I am in the US. I haven’t actually asked about surgery yet. I read that surgery is usually held off for like 3 or so years because they don’t want to mess with the early stages of hrt and I assumed that was just the standard. I would love to get vocal feminization surgery sooner though.

wow you can get an SRS referral within a year of starting HRT in your country? The standard here is to wait a few years for pretty much any surgery.

You can be attracted to whoever you want to be. Once you accept an attraction to trans people, the labels get confusing. Worry less about your category and more about how you feel.

I don’t know the science, but I do know that seawater makes my hair a little stiff and super curly. I have naturally curly hair, but they’re big loose curls that hang. With seawater though, it becomes a big fluffy afro.

best I could think of are old school curlers. From looking it up they do work best with heat, but don’t require it. Maybe wetting your hair with saltwater would help too. Saltwater makes my hair much more curly. I remember reading it apparently strengthens the asymmetrical bonds that makes hair curly.

Uh oh, I didn’t realize I ordered one. My dom is gonna be pissed.

Yeah I got that result on google translate too, but the kanji or hanzi symbols it picks out are wrong.

I’m glad you were able to recognize those habits, get a handle on things and lose weight. It sounds like it was a serious struggle for you. I hope you’re more proud of the achievement than how embarrassed you sound writing about the struggle. <3

I don’t think I’d be able to do that anyway. Poverty brain makes me very cheap and I have serious money anxiety. Not to mention I just can’t eat that much before feeling sick. I wish I could eat tiramisu 24/7, but it costs like $15 for a block of it and my stomach cant handle any more than that in a day anyway. Even if I did eat an entire tiramisu every day, it still wouldn’t be enough calories to get where I need to be. I walk about 10 miles a day while carrying weight.

Ideally I’d want the fat in my butt and chest and not my around my liver lol

Yeah I know, I’m a bad American. A trans woman who excerises regularly and doesn’t consume much sugar. I was just considering milk, but I worry a bit about taking in too much calcium. I have bad kidneys and get stones pretty frequently. I’ll have to talk to my dr before I try that one.

Yeah one of my gym friends said to drink a lot of mass gainer, but that stuff is like $100 a bucket. I’ll look into making a diy version though

I do eat breakfast, but I don’t take lunches at work. So I have an egg sandwich and a coffee in the morning and then try to eat as much as I can from 4p-11p.

I plan to, but my next consult isn’t until like october or november. I don’t have a pcp

Real, but sometimes they know some secrets

Damn, looks great! I’m actually so addicted to thrifting. I go to like 3 stores a week and I’m constantly scrolling depop.