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HRT Does Not Solve All Your Problems as a Trans Person!!
Reflections from a girl ~1 year into hormone therapy
It’s always nice to start on a high note, so let me just say that I am grateful every day for the opportunity to be on HRT. I could practically recite word for word a bevy of trans women’s HRT update videos in the mid-2010s, yearning to undergo the same transformation but unable to overcome my anxiety and self-consciousness. Finally taking the leap has been monumental for my mental health and my whole perspective on life. However, there’s something that I wish I could tell myself before starting HRT.
HRT DOES NOT SOLVE ALL YOUR PROBLEMS!
Let me say that one more time…
HRT DOES NOT SOLVE ALL OF YOUR PROBLEMS!!!!!!
This should be a no-brainer, right? Well, I knew this rationally when I started hormones. However, deep down it seemed like everything would wrap itself up in a neat little fairy tale ending when the frog finally became the princess. Of course, this was just a specious musing that ended in a hard reality check.
