It's been said that coming out isn't a one-time act, but something that winds up being repeated again and again when meeting new people or joining new groups -- and that goes double for bisexuals and trans people.
ain't that the whole. damn. truth.
Haven't seen you in person since several Arisias ago, thus I speak from a point of ignorance and for that I apologize; the beard I remember well. Trim back in stages with it maybe, over the course of days or weeks, if you haven't done such already? Easier on the mirror glances for sure, and other folks get used to it with less WHOA WHAT'D YOU DO? factor.
once again I wish trades worked, as if we were all a bunch of Mx. Potatoheads; here, let's swap breasts for beards, uteri for... etc.
Yeah, hearing a trans man in California complaining a while back about not being able to grow a beard even with testosterone, I was thinking, "dude, if only I could give you mine."
Several years ago I heard about a trans man and a trans woman coincidentally scheduled for bottom surgery at the same time in the same hospital, who even more coincidentally were a good tissue match for each other, and the surgeons were all, "Hey, let's transplant her testes into him, and if it works he won't have to inject T for the rest of his life," but the insurance companies involved said no, that's experimental, thou shalt not. I don't think opportunities like that will come up very often.
I kinda started doing the gradual beard shortening thing, but then I'd not get around to doing maintenance for a while and it would grow out, or it would break (every so often I suddenly get a whole lot of, like split ends but in the middle instead of the end, and a bunch of hairs break off over several days) and suddenly it would be much shorter all at once instead of gradually for a while (and then grow out again...). But what you suggest is still an option.
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ain't that the whole. damn. truth.
Haven't seen you in person since several Arisias ago, thus I speak from a point of ignorance and for that I apologize; the beard I remember well. Trim back in stages with it maybe, over the course of days or weeks, if you haven't done such already? Easier on the mirror glances for sure, and other folks get used to it with less WHOA WHAT'D YOU DO? factor.
once again I wish trades worked, as if we were all a bunch of Mx. Potatoheads; here, let's swap breasts for beards, uteri for... etc.
Clémence? (kleh-Mohns, though French, I know)
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Several years ago I heard about a trans man and a trans woman coincidentally scheduled for bottom surgery at the same time in the same hospital, who even more coincidentally were a good tissue match for each other, and the surgeons were all, "Hey, let's transplant her testes into him, and if it works he won't have to inject T for the rest of his life," but the insurance companies involved said no, that's experimental, thou shalt not. I don't think opportunities like that will come up very often.
I kinda started doing the gradual beard shortening thing, but then I'd not get around to doing maintenance for a while and it would grow out, or it would break (every so often I suddenly get a whole lot of, like split ends but in the middle instead of the end, and a bunch of hairs break off over several days) and suddenly it would be much shorter all at once instead of gradually for a while (and then grow out again...). But what you suggest is still an option.