Transgender Diaries: Hormone Therapy Day #28
Documented my changes and progress having been on testosterone as a transgender man for 28 days today.
Warnings in this for discussion of (positively discussed) weight gain, chest-centred dysphoria, and then some mentions of sex drive and bottom growth.
A month ago, I wrote an article on Day #1 of my testosterone journey, where I detailed the difficulty in getting hold of the testosterone I was prescribed, and how beyond the moon I was to finally be on it.
A disclaimer — your own responses to testosterone will pretty much always be decided by your own genetics and stuff like that, and your timeline on testosterone might not match mine; some of the effects I mention, you might not even experience, or might have the opposite! Everyone’s response to testosterone is different, and it’s important to remember that.
A month in, I’m simultaneously impatient for the big changes, but also really surprised by the number of changes I’ve experienced and the extent of them!
So, firstly, I’m prescribed 2 pumps of Testogel every day. Testogel is a topical testosterone gel that I sort of slather onto my shoulders every morning, ordinarily at around 6am: 2 pumps, according to the box, is a dose of 2.5g per day, and the quantity of testosterone applied to the skin in that dosage is…
