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Resources:

Best resource: https://github.com/cvyl/awesome-transgender Site with links to resources for just about anything.

Trevor Project: crisis mental health services for LGBTQ people, lots of helpful information and resources: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

The Gender Dysphoria Bible: useful info on various aspects of gender dysphoria: https://genderdysphoria.fyi/en

StainedGlassWoman: Various useful essays on trans topics: https://stainedglasswoman.substack.com/

Trans resources: https://trans-resources.info/

[USA] Resources for trans people in the South: https://southernequality.org/resources/transinthesouth/#provider-map

[USA] Report discrimination: https://action.aclu.org/legal-intake/report-lgbtqhiv-discrimination

[USA] Keep track on trans legislation and news: https://www.erininthemorning.com/

[GERMANY] Bundesverband Trans: Find medical trans resources: https://www.bundesverband-trans.de/publikationen/leitfaden-fuer-behandlungssuchende/

[GERMANY] Trans DB: Insurance information (may be outdated): https://transdb.de/

[GERMANY] Deutsche Gesellschaft für Transidentität und Intersexualität: They have contact information for their advice centers and some general information for trans and intersex people. They also do activism: dgti.org

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What has surprised you about transitioning? (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 week ago by lwhjp@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/trans@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Some things from me:

Early on, darkening of the perineal raphe was quite a surprise (aka the "sack stripe"). It's not something I've seen mentioned in most HRT guides.
How incredibly unreliable my own perception of how feminine I look is. People were treating me as a woman well before I could see even hints of it in my face.
It's nice that women will sit next to me on the train now. As the carriage fills up I quite often find myself in the center of a cluster of women, which is very affirming.
Makeup areas in bathrooms. I had no idea this was a thing, and they're great!

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[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 week ago

I guess I didn't expect to feel so female after transition. I always thought I would be stuck "male".

I think I really didn't understand biology and how significant hormones are and how insignificant something like sex chromosomes are (they really initiate one developmental cascade or another more than they play a pivotal role in the on-going function of cells).

Even though I had already intellectually challenged my bio-essentialist views, I think on some level they were still entrenched in my perspective and how I saw things ... estrogen makes you female. Where before transition I thought "trans women are women" felt like some kind of technicality (like, trans women will never be female but maybe they have a social role as women, so they're social women but not biological women), after transition I now realize that trans women are biologically female in ways I never expected (and which I think is rarely appreciated or understood).