It was great! I went with a few friends and it was first time I'd been swimming around other people since I started HRT so that was nice to rock a swimsuit in public.

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hell yeah! That’s still a goal I need to achieve. Bottom dysphoria is the main issue for me in that regard, and a discouraging thing when I think about swimsuits. I overcame my aversion to shopping for bras, now I need to overcome my aversion to swimsuit shopping.

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The biggest hurdle for me it was mostly wanting to deal with all my body hair, getting a course of full body laser has felt life changing when it comes to being out in public.

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I need to resume electrolysis at some point, but I’m stressed enough about money as is without worrying about biweekly electrolysis copays.

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Copays suck, you go through the trouble of getting insurance to cover and then you still have to pay.

I found a esthetician/electrology school near me that does an hour of work for $20, which was a decent price point for me so I've been doing that all out of pocket so far.

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I’ll have to reexplore my options, I don’t think laser was an option but that may have changed in the past year or so

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 months ago

I still have to finish electrolysis too, but at this point it's mostly for white hairs and a more manageable because the laser already knocked out most of the dark ones- definitely found that order of operations to be pretty efficient

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I can only imagine how great that must have felt. As a kid I didn't like the beach at all, I found the sand annoying ( anakin-padme-1 ) and it felt like a body show, which felt awkward and made me feel worse over how pale and skinny I am. And that's without any gender anxiety.

But in recent years I have nurtured a wish that my life and self-esteem improves to the point that I can have an experience like this too. It's become a kind of final proof of how much I would have grown as a person.