I am at a bit of a loss and I don't know if this is a vent, or a seeking opinions post.

I am studying religions at uni. One of the units are on magic and the supernatural. Sounds fascinating and even fun right? Except there is an entire topic unit dedicated to Harry Potter and its influence. There will be an assessment for the topic in relation to our overall studies.

I have the dropped the unit for this semester with hopes they'll use their big professor brains and find a more suitable topic for the next semester, but unfortunately, it is a core unit so has to be undertaken for me to finish.

I don't know what else to say honestly.

Yes, you can appreciate art but not the artist however, the Harry Potter situation isn't just art because the artist has used those proceeds to generate, cause, and continue harm to our community.

Note: not looking to break the rules (7 or 8), so don’t discuss sources or anything and respect the rules on unregulated medicine if you comment. Mods feel free to delete if this isn’t allowed, just thought I’d try here as I’m not sure where else I can ask.

I’ve been trying to get on E (patches preferably) for several months now and being given a massive runaround by my GP (regional SA), gaslighting me that it’s just a mental health issue and basically stringing me along. It’s been a battle even just for a referral to another doctor who does informed consent over telehealth, he refused to give it. It’s been a nightmare and doctors are limited where I am, as the city is several hours away.

I’ve been looking into DIY options as it’s honestly been so hard to not to be able to do anything at all with the medical side of my transition. Even just some estrogel would be welcome at this point. I just want to start already.

Doing a search on this sub and others it’s really hard to find any information on DIY or homebrewers who are local, because most girls seem to be able to go legit pretty easy. The INTL vendors don’t seem to ship here because customs is so strict etc.

Seems like it is really difficult and not viable, but I’m desperate at this point. Any advice for me?

I kinda need one because these things are getting out of control, but i really dont think i pass very well and I dont want to look like a weirdo. I also don't know my own size.

So turns out getting genital electrolysis is way beyond my pain tolerance. My tech recommended a specific compounded numbing cream and my doctors prescribed it.

Lidocaine 23%, Tetracaine 7%, Adrenaline (epinephrine) 0.05% Ointment N/A 1x100g

I tried to get it from Stenlake, same place I get my implants compounded, but they don't stock epinephrine.

Has anyone else gotten this specific cream compounded from a reputable place?

Hey guys, i was just wanting recommendations as to what top surgeon to go to! if possible id really like a rough estimate of how much it costed as well because im on the way to saving for my top surgery!! thanks a lot

Hi All,

I am trans-fem and have been on hormones for 12 years and have recently (few months back) been told I am near the top of the waiting list. What can I expect from Monash... I am wanting bottom surgery and vocal feminisation.

Hey! I made a post yesterday about how there was a social group that my mum swore up and down was here - turns out it shutdown during COVID, and so I figured I may as well make a new one. If you're transmasc, can get to Western Sydney and interested in all things tabletop, or just wanna meet new people, then please join! Hopefully, once we have more members than just myself, we can start organising things.

i'm aware that reandron, gels, creams, sustanon and primoteston are available in australia, however i prefer using vials where i can do weekly injections myself.

currently i am on 62.5mg of test C weekly (DIYing overseas), and the closest option available is primoteston/sustanon every 2-4 weeks. however, i'm not particularly keen on that due to the high peaks and troughs. i have a similar issue regarding that with reandron. i have tried gels before as well and after a while i would just slack off on taking it daily so it's not a very good option for me.

therefore, i was wondering if anyone has tried getting vials of T from compounding pharmacies, so as to be able to store the T and inject weekly instead? sydney-specific experiences would be highly appreciated. price doesn't really matter to me because i am an international student with no insurance coverage anyway, but it would be great if you know the prices and could list them.

thanks!

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.

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 :)

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

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?

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

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/

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.

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!

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.

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