I swear, every person in every transition timeline EVER looks so much happier than before. And it’s just so wholesome, omg 😭💜
Funnily enough, I’d also say most people look much younger 😆

  • DaPorkchop_ [they/she/it] ( DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml ) 
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    1 month ago

    I guess that’s good 😄

    It sounds good to me :D

    […] the wrong hormones in one’s body make them (temporarily) age way faster…

    Quite possible, but my analysis would be more like this:

    1. A lot of traits which we (in the West, anyway) associate with “youth” are the opposite of what testosterone causes, (e.g. smooth+soft+clear skin, full cheeks), and conversely a lot of things which testosterone emphasizes are associated with aging into adulthood (e.g. visible facial hair, more prominent brow- or jawline, etc.). Since most of the facial changes caused by estrogen are the opposite of that, they’re more strongly connected to the concept of “youth”, and therefore the changes brought about by feminizing HRT (in particular: after having gone through male puberty) causes people to “regress” along the spectrum and be perceived as younger.
      There’s probably something to be said about how this ties in to become yet another tool used by the patriarchy to infantilize women; I’m not getting into that now :P
    2. Testosterone accelerates your metabolism, which literally causes you to age faster, whether it’s the “right” hormone or not.

    My very limited sample size of only one transmasc I’ve known since before he started HRT tells me that this is at least somewhat true, because he definitely seemed to get quite a bit older in not that long of a time frame.

    I won’t stand for this 😭

    I appreciate the sentiment, but when I’m going around dressed like this I can’t exactly blame people for assuming I’m a dude (and normally don’t mind all that much, gender is weird like that sometimes). At this point, unless I’m clearly dressed fem I look sorta androgynous at best, and my hair is clearly doing most of the heavy lifting (pretty obvious because every morning, until I’ve gone through my routine of adding a metric fuckton of curling cream to force it to stay down, it tends to levitate and my face looks a lot less fem than it otherwise does).

    That said I am absolutely not denying that there’ve been changes, compared to photos from like two years ago (and even this past January or Feburary) I look WAY more fem now :)