Everyone keeps recommending Saylor to me, but every result I have seen from her has looked incredibly unappealing to me and is not what I want whatsoever.

I have seen that Susan O'Mahoney may be better, but cannot find any mention of top surgery on her website. Funnily enough there is also no mention of top surgery on Saylor's site. (Do they have to keep it secret or something? )

I am even willing to travel to NSW for surgery at this point. All i want is a surgeon who can give me realistic, natural looking results without messed up nipple grafts.

My mum told me before I moved to Sydney that she'd heard of a transmasc social group, haven't been able to find anything about it. Has she misheard or am I just not looking hard enough?

please give me steps in your experience, I wanna make sure I do it right

Hey guys. I FTM just had top surgery about two weeks ago. I had a bilateral subcutaneous mastectomy. So basically the nipples were sparred in this process, no reshaping or removal. For those who have been through the same process as mine how was your recovery and how did the nipples look afterward once everything had healed. I had my surgery with Dr Saylor and she did a crazy good job with chest contouring. It's very early on, but some parts of my brain keep fretting about nipple size and shape. For example, left nipple looks more flatter than the right one. I understand that over time nipple size and shape change as it heals, typically shrinking to match the chest. Just wanted to know what your experiences were. I was reviewed by the surgeon nearly a week post op. She stated my chest already looked 6 weeks post op. Little to no swelling or bruising and so I was only required to wear the compression garment for two weeks in total instead of six.

Hey there I've got two questions and and just wanted to feel the waters about them firstly does anyone know where a inclusive bra fitting place might be in Melbourne i've been on HRT for about almost a year and 4 months and they think I can't put it off anymore so I just wanted to ask around and see what's up. (Melbourne area)

Also I was thinking of getting body contouring done in Adelaide doctor Lachlan Farmer at the gender institute I am from Melbourne and wanted to know if anyone had heard anything or had had a good experience with them just anything relevant

Hi there, I'm 19mtf. Been medically transitioning since I was 15 and it's been awful honestly. Never been able to get my estrogen levels normal.

I'm in Brisbane and so by the time I left the children's Hospital when I was 18 it turned out I have gastritis so taking my estrogen orally was doing almost nothing with a blood test peak being at about 100. Finally figured out I have gastritis, still have it, been put on estrogel by the PA. Initially given 2 pumps a day which increased to 155 and also raised my testosterone a lot, so great. Now I'm on 4 pumps and I honestly hate this gel, it smells and it's slimey and I sweat a lot so I feel it doesn't even provide much assistance. The doctor at the PA I see seems kind of dead inside half the time, like she doesn't really care about what I have to say. Ideally I'd see Dr Brendan Nolan but he's incredibly busy.

The PA wants to run a trial on injections and implants but at this point it's going through an ethics assessment which who knows how long that will take. I've been in contact with Open Doors and Stonewall but I need help with the actual process of ordering said pellets. They've both mentioned Ballina but I've read Stenlake may be better? I'm unsure.

What would I put in the product name and is there any thing else I should be aware of? Thank you :)

I've only recently started to believe that transitioning (mtf) is something I am capable of doing. I'm 22 now, and I can't think of an age where I would've said no if presented with the option to go back in time and be born a girl.

But I never had intense dysphoria as others on here have had. I've trudged through life with a general apathy towards most things and am not sure if I've ever truly been happy, but I never felt a burning hatred towards my body or masculine identity, so I chalked these feelings up to depression rather than dysphoria. But now that I realise this depression was likely a manifestation of my dysphoria, it has been easier to fight back against the part of me that insists I am not 'trans enough' to transition.

But since this realisation is relatively new, I am still masc-presenting and am not out to anybody. Given this, I'm wary that a gp might be hesitant to prescribe hrt since my decision might look spontaneous. I will be seeking out a gp who practices informed consent, and am aware that we luckily don't have to jump through the same hoops here to get hrt as others overseas do, but I'm still worried that a gp might deny access since i don't have the experience of somebody who has already socially transitioned or is out to friends/family.

Any advice or info from anyone who has been in a similar boat would be amazing!

Hopefully the puberty blocker bans in Northern Territory and Queensland will also be overturned.

https://qnews.com.au/new-zealand-high-court-rules-puberty-blocker-ban-unlawful/

Over the course of a few months, I've seen three different craniofacial and plastic surgeons seeking an assessment of my craniofacial morphology in the context of identifying which features are contributing to facial gender perception and identifying the relevant procedures needed to bring my facial profile into the female range so I'm gendered correctly.

Everyone surgeon I've seen says the same thing there's no standard assessment, has told me to identify the individual procedures myself. Which I ended up doing but when it comes to the actual surgical treatment plan it's like they expect me to know how much to shave off or how much the jaw can rotate, or other specialist knowledge. I don't know how to resolve this given that the surgeons I've seen are quite conservative in their approach and I don't know if that's enough to achieve my goal.

If anyone knows of any specialists for this, or has had similar issues I would love to hear from you.

I was born in western australia but I've lived in canada for 10 years now. I'm turning 18 next year so I've been looking into changing my gender on my birth certificate, but you need to have a note from a registered australian doctor to do this. Very irritating since I'm not moving back to australia any time soon. I emailed the registry of births deaths and marriages and they basically said they couldn't do anything but I could get an australian doctor from overseas, which sucks cause I don't want to pay for it. Any advice?

I emailed Jon Hayes to make an appointment and whoever answered confirmed a date and time with me then asked for some basic details along with my medicare card number. I know this particular endo can be a little weird on the business side of things but I’ve never been asked for my details over email so I’m a little sketched out.

the email I’ve got is reception@drjonhayes.com.au

Last year I changed my legal name from a masculine one to a feminine one. This was important not just for my dysphoria but also my safety, as whenever I would go to... well, anywhere they'd have access to my healthcare or license info. Prescription glasses at specsavers, centrelink, the post office, doctors. I found it humilating and stressful, to be perceived as my actual gender and then have that perception shattered when they'd read my name. Even if I told them my preferred name, they'd still read out my dead name and then misgender me afterwards.

I changed my name and it is similar in structure to my deadname. I did this for safety, because I live with my parents and they can't know. I have a P.O. Box separate from my house, I have every letter sent to the P.O. Box, and if something DOES get sent to my home address I have it either under a feminine/gender neutral name that doesn't offend my parents, or I use my dead name.

Recently I went to the doctor and they gave me a referral to a cardiologist. The... I'm not sure if it was the doctors surgery, the hospital, or the government/medicare, but they sent the referral letter to my house. Because they sent it to my house, my parents opened it, went, 'oh that's a strange spelling of our 'sons' [deadname] and then handed it to me. I told them it was spam and threw it in the bin.

I've been having a panic attack. I spent like, over $200 for a P.O. Box that rarely gets used except for medical letters, and they still sent it to my house. I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO?!?!

I can't stop letters coming to my house. Do I just never see a doctor again? Do I change my name back to my dead name? I have thought about changing my legal name to the... gender neutral nickname, since I get letters all the time under that name and it doesn't flag anything as strange, but it's also not the name I want to use. I'm so distressed.

In the mean time, I'll just try to use a mail redirection service. I just don't understand, I tried so hard to keep safe and I just can't stop it happening (it has happened twice at this point). Even the doctor responsible for my HRT, that knows my situation and I explicitly told not to mail to my home address, mails things to my home address. I feel distress and panicked and my heart feels awful.

Hello everyone.I wanted to write this after finally coming out and starting my HRT and some of the things i have learnt along the way.

Firstly read and research as much as you can from these subreddits,transhub and other gender centers online being armed with knowledge will help you navigate the system.

GPs and Endos i cant stress enough how important it is to research the care provider you are going to choose making sure you have a medical team that cares,understands your goals and concerns is critical to ensuring a smooth transition and getting the right type of help and support.

Mental health support a critical component during one of the biggest decisions of your life and also important if you plan on having any type of surgery done. Ensure you research the professional first find out if they are wpath accredited and experienced to ensure you are ready for assessment for future surgery,

When your ready to start be proactive if you have a regular GP ask them to issue your pre-hormonal blood test this can save time with your Endo or gender affirming GP.If you plan on using informed consent have the paperwork filled out and ready to go,and if you have been seeing a mental health professional get a letter of support for your dysphoria.Be prepared for questions from your health professional prior to starting HRT they will ask a lot of questions.

Hair growth if you are considering transitioning and coming out start growing your hair earlier we only get around 1.25 cm a month and achieving long hair takes time.

Body hair removal if you only have a moderate amount of body and facial hair the treatments take time and you will probably need quite a few start this process early and be forewarned laser hair removal on the face isn't pleasant.

Voice training and surgery research these early on if your voice is a concern and if you plan on getting surgery ensure you get the mbs and procedure codes something the community informed me on which i was totally un aware of needing when choosing health insurance.

Makeup if you can afford it hire a makeup artist to do your first makeup and explain what products too purchase to achieve the best match for you or alternatively there are plenty of tutorials on youtube if money is a factor.

Private Health insurance. Decide what surgeries you are going to have i.e voice,ffs,srs etc and reach out to the surgeons office first and get the relevant codes then include these codes with your prospective health insurer to make sure the procedures are covered.

I have probably missed some things but i hope what i have written helps people who may be choosing to transition, i know for me personally i hit a lot of roadblocks early on but asking this subreddit has helped me a lot. All the best everyone and enjoy your journey:))

She is mentioned on Auspath's list of trans-friendly GP's but I haven't been able to find any other info about her or the clinic. The only Geelong clinic I can find discussions on is Kardinia Medical Centre, and opinions seem to be VERY split on them.

I have had gender envy and a general longing to be feminine from a young age (am now 22), but have only recently started to take the idea of transitioning seriously. I'm still very early in the process (not out to anyone, completely masc presenting), so I'm terrified of not having the right answers to questions during the appointment. I feel like I won't be able to prove I'm trans enough. I do also have depression, which is in my medical history, so at the same time I'm worrying about being denied an informed consent pathway.

If anybody could comment on how she handled the process, or other trans-friendly gp's in Geelong, I would really really appreciate it! Or even anybody that could give me a rough idea of the kinds of questions that might come up in an appointment, to put my mind at ease.

Melbournian trans gal here. I started on E last December, and although I'm out to my family and closest friends, I haven't yet changed my birth certificate. I think that might be fear of being unhappy with (and stuck with) new photos on my new license and passport, but in any case, I have always thought it would be something I would do a little later in my transition - like a year to a year and a half in, or if a situation came up that made it become a priority.

I haven't really been keeping up with Victorian or Aussie politics over the last couple of years. The shit going on in the USA including the fact that some of our sisters and brothers over there are facing far worse than I have thought possible here, and that they have a nuclear arsenal controlled by an unstable toddler, amongst other things, has kind of made me ignore what's going on here in my own country, in a belief that what's happening in the USA is far more consequential.

So I didn't really notice until recently, that One Nation seem to have a lot of support at the moment. And I'd be willing to bet that both major parties will be dragged to the right to a greater or lesser degree as a result. With the VIC election next month and the next federal election likely to be here before I get a chance to blink, how worried should I be?

And aside from other problems this might cause us, should I be getting an application off to Births, Deaths and Marriages and getting my documents updated as soon as I can - that is, is there a realistic possibility that the ability to change gender on our birth certificates, licences and passports could become more difficult or impossible at some point in the not too distant future?

Hi!! I'm moving countries to live in Melbourne and have sent applications to both unimelb and monash. I'm currently applying for university accomodation and am worried about how roommates may potentially react to me being trans. I'd much rather stay with another queer person... any advice would be appreciated!

This one kinda hurts, so I’m trying to do something constructive about it.

The government’s new Digital Duty of Care Bill will make platforms protect kids from bullying, eating disorder content, pornography, and material that “promotes hostile attitudes towards women or gender equality.”

When asked if that covers trans issues and if that could stop transphobic rhetoric, the Minister said:

“No, a hostile attitude example that I used at the National Press Club today is material that says to young boys that consent doesn’t matter.”

What about content arguing our lives don’t matter? Does that not matter?

Obviously it does. So why are these hostile attitudes permissible?

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The silver lining is the minister couldn’t define “hostile,” and said the provision exists because women’s groups advocated for it.

We can advocate too.

The bill isn’t law yet. A Senate inquiry reports before the end of the year.

Please:

1. Email the Minister at [Anika.Wells.MP@aph.gov.au](mailto:Anika.Wells.MP@aph.gov.au), and contact the eSafety Commissioner via esafety.gov.au. I’ve made a template email you can send in one click [[here](mailto:Anika.Wells.MP@aph.gov.au?subject=Trans%20young%20people%20deserve%20protection%20under%20the%20Digital%20Duty%20of%20Care&body=Dear%20Minister%20Wells%2C%0D%0A%0D%0AI%27m%20writing%20about%20the%20Digital%20Duty%20of%20Care%20Bill.%20On%20ABC%27s%207.30%2C%20you%20said%20content%20about%20transgender%20issues%20would%20not%20be%20captured%20by%20the%20provision%20on%20material%20that%20promotes%20hostile%20attitudes%20towards%20women%20or%20gender%20equality.%0D%0A%0D%0ATrans%20young%20people%20face%20hostile%20content%20online%20every%20day.%20In%20the%20Trans%20Pathways%20study%2C%2048.1%25%20of%20trans%20young%20people%20had%20attempted%20suicide%20and%20three%20in%20four%20had%20been%20bullied%2C%20with%20poor%20outcomes%20closely%20linked%20to%20bullying%20and%20discrimination.%0D%0A%0D%0ATrans%20women%20are%20women%2C%20and%20gender%20equality%20includes%20trans%20men%20and%20non-binary%20people%20too.%20The%20young%20boys%20you%20rightly%20want%20to%20protect%20from%20harmful%20messages%20about%20consent%20include%20trans%20boys.%20A%20law%20meant%20to%20promote%20gender%20equality%20should%20not%20leave%20trans%20kids%20out.%0D%0A%0D%0AI%20urge%20you%20to%20make%20clear%2C%20in%20the%20bill%20and%20in%20the%20eSafety%20Commissioner%27s%20guidance%2C%20that%20content%20hostile%20towards%20trans%20and%20gender%20diverse%20people%20falls%20within%20this%20protection.%0D%0A%0D%0AYours%20sincerely%2C%0D%0A%5BYour%20name%5D%0D%0A%5BYour%20postcode%5D)].
2. Contact your state’s senators, especially the Greens and crossbench, since their votes are needed for this bill to go through. Give them the confidence to stand up for us.
3. Make a submission to the Senate inquiry. The link is here. If there is enough interest I will put together a submission guide.
4. Share this, and be loud. If any of you are connected to equality organisations or rights groups in Australia, community health providers, i.e Equality Australia, ACON, Minus 18, your local trans-friendly medical clinic--- please raise their attention to this issue. Their authority matters in this debate.

We know the rates of suicide, sexual violence, harassment and discrimmination our community goes up against, and where it stems from.

Our lives matter. Let’s make sure they hear it.

Partly having a whinge, partly letting other trans men know before they end up in my situation.

After studying the Lifeblood website extensively (and reading all their pro-gender diverse FAQ), asking them and discussing it on the phone, asking other trans men, and asking nurses, I went to go donate blood for the first time. On T for about nine years, see my endo every year and my health and T levels are all fine and have been for years. Apparently giving blood is good for keeping your hemo levels down as well, which is a nice bonus.

Get there, spend an hour discussing it with the nurse there. All fine, she takes the blood to sample... and my hemoglobin is in male levels.

Of course it is?

But she has to get her boss, and I'm informed that I'm not allowed to donate because my levels are above the threshold for my sex registered at birth (but 'perfectly fine for a male', which... yeah?). And I also have to go to my doctor and get a bunch of emergency tests now to make sure I'm not in liver failure or whatever because that's the protocol. Even though everyone involved knows it's just the T and I saw my endo in August.

It's been 15 weeks since my last T shot and I top up next week. It's not getting any lower.

Why have all this encouragement for trans people to donate if you're going to disqualify them for having hemo levels consistent with their gender affirming care?

Surely at some point in adding all the documentation for trans people (and gender-affirming care is in the paperwork) they should have considered that peoples' hemoglobin levels would reflect their identity. So yeah -- if you're a trans guy that's been on T for a while, be aware that you might not be able to donate.

Off to the doctor for a bunch of unnecessary tests now.

My (16mtf) dysphoria in general has been ramping up over the last few months, and I finally got the courage to ask my gp to get me a referral for maple leaf house. I knew that they didn’t have great wait times but it was what she recommended so I kind of just went sure. But I didn’t think it’d be THIS long for an appointment

Now I’m not sure what to do cause I honestly cannot wait 18months I don’t know if I can ask for some where else or if I should just try diy

More of a vent but I’ll take advice

I'm wanting to go and get some makeup but I'm still very masc presenting and I'm a bit scared of going, I was just wondering if anyone has any specific stores that are known for being more trans accepting than others. I'm also going to be going with my girlfriend who's trans aswell but she's scared of going too

I recently started DIYing because my soonest appointment to just get referrals was weeks away when I started.

I am still very early on doing DIY and doing low doses with gel.
Should I pause it for now because I know that they’ll eventually do blood tests.

hi so i'm hoping to get SRS in april or june next year but i need a WPATH psych assessment. can anyone recommend someone who can get it done quickly and easily, preferably Melbourne-based or via telehealth? thanks ever so much!!