Happy New Year everyone! You've all seen 2020 through, and I am so proud of you. This next year won't be cake, but we'll get through it together!

Instead of resolutions for this year, the suggested topic is advice you would tell your younger self/someone early in transition.

To kick things off, these are some resources I wish that I knew about back in highschool:

Also! I'm TEL's newest mod! I'm soooo excited to be here. A little about me! I'm transfemme and have been on HRT for roughly two years, full time for about as long. I'm six months out from an orchi. I really fell down the leftist rabbit hole over the past year, currently call myself a "Liberatian Socialist" but the label game just feels like Hogwarts houses honestly. Read all the theory! Very excited about The Purge and can't wait to do more purging.

  • breadandcircuses [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    cw: this will probs squick a lot of folx out

    literally the most painful experience of my life (and i've had my dick pierced.) a lot of people only have one nip pierced because they chicken out after the first one. BUT i fucking LOVE them and do not regret it one bit.

    i had to take all of my piercings out for my orchi, and within 12 hours my nips had almost entirely closed. so i, uh, forced the piercings back in. dumb. they got miiiiildly infected, and then after a few months it turned into "definitely infected." took them out, disinfected the piercings with sterile saline, went to bed... and now the piercings are entirely closed. so uh, don't take the out. ever. let a piercer do it. cuz now i have to pay to get them pierced again and hope i don't see stars like last time ahah

      • breadandcircuses [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        navels are so hard to get to heal right. they're so fragile!!! godspeed to you <3 that's actually the next piercing i'm thinking about too!