A reader writes: “I’m a trans man who has been on T coming up on two years. I don’t have a sex drive. I got a slight taste of it for two weeks in the beginning, then it went away for a few months, then returned for two weeks again – but then went away [...]
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Ask Matt: Low Sex Drive is Driving Me Up the Wall
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, Observations, tagged gender expectations, health, hormones, masculinity, sex, testosterone, trans men on May 17, 2012 | 16 Comments »
Ask Matt: Transition and a Second Adolescence
Posted in Ask Matt, Observations, tagged gender expectations, hormones, identity, testosterone, transition on May 14, 2012 | 15 Comments »
A reader writes: “I wonder how people feel about going through their second adolescence at a later stage in life than folks do naturally? I remember hearing a guy at an FTM meeting saying he did not wish to go through it in his thirties. I went through it (am still going through it?) in [...]
Ask Matt: Will I Always Look Like a Trans Guy?
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, Information, Observations, tagged bodies, gender expression, hormones, masculinity, testosterone, trans men, transition on April 30, 2012 | 16 Comments »
A reader writes: “I’m twenty-seven, but only a couple of years ago realized that I have to do something about my gender dysphoria, otherwise I’ll get too depressed and only feel more and more like I’m a guest in this body of mine. The problem is that I’m a perfectionist – too much a perfectionist. [...]
Tranifesto’s Most Popular Posts of 2011
Posted in Information, Observations, tagged Chaz Bono, gender identity, identity, LGBT, masculinity, relationships, testosterone on January 2, 2012 | 5 Comments »
WordPress just sent me a “Your 2011 Year in Blogging” report that provides a year-end summary of the most viewed and most commented on posts for the year. Although I can always see my stats, it’s nice to have all that information in an organized little bundle. So to welcome in 2012, I’m going to [...]
Ask Matt: Testosterone and Fertility
Posted in Ask Matt, Information, Observations, tagged bodies, health, hormones, testosterone, trans men on October 17, 2011 | 19 Comments »
A reader writes: “I’m a cis-gendered woman who sometimes leads free workshops on fertility awareness for cis-women and people with ‘female’ reproductive systems. For those who don’t know, fertility awareness is a scientifically proven form of DIY health care where you can learn to observe and interpret the various fertility signs that occur throughout the [...]
Meanness Doesn’t Equal ‘Man-ness’
Posted in Commentary, tagged gender expectations, gender roles, hormones, masculinity, testosterone on August 25, 2011 | 20 Comments »
One of the worst fights that I have ever seen – besides on television and in Sylvester Stallone films – was when I was a junior high teacher many years ago. I was in the classroom during a break, and a student came running in, shouting, “Miss Kailey, Miss Kailey (that was my name then). [...]
Ask Matt: Getting Needles is a Hassle
Posted in Ask Matt, Information, Observations, tagged health care, hormones, testosterone, transition on August 22, 2011 | 13 Comments »
A reader writes: “As a European who has also lived in Africa, but is now living in New York, I get my T and inject myself every four weeks or so. In my own country, it is illegal to prescribe T for this purpose, but it is possible to get it if you know where [...]
Ask Matt Monday: Will Testosterone Kill My Singing Voice?
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, Information, tagged bodies, gender expression, gender roles, health, hormones, testosterone on July 4, 2011 | 24 Comments »
A reader writes: “I am 24, American, was assigned as female at birth, but consider myself an androgyne rather than either typical sex. “I am already physically very androgynous, but I am interested in getting on T mainly for the purpose of lowering my voice a bit to make it even more ambiguous to as [...]
Ask Matt: Mom Says, ‘Don’t Go Stealth!’
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, tagged assimilation, being out, family, gender expression, hormones, testosterone, transition on June 16, 2011 | 15 Comments »
A reader writes: “I’m a sixteen-year-old trans guy and I’ve been out to my immediate family for one year now. I’ve had many conversations with my mom about someday going stealth. She is extremely against it and says it’s deceitful – that it would be lying to people. She says I would be letting people [...]
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‘Mom, I Just Can’t Take the Crying’
Posted in Commentary, Observations, tagged femininity, gender expression, gender roles, hormones, masculinity, testosterone, trans men, transition on December 1, 2011 | 20 Comments »
When my nephew was about four or five, his best friend was a little girl of the same age. My sister and the girl’s mother were friends, so the two kids grew up together. My nephew was and is a sensitive child in many ways. He has always shared his toys, stopped to help other [...]
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