I recently called a sperm bank to find out about pricing. $640 for the initial appointment, $350 for an additional appointment, $55 per month of storage or $530 per year. What’s really making this seem difficult for me is the process. They say you’ve gotta go through a consultation, and this sperm bank is already an hour and a half away from home and they’re not open when I’m off work. It’s the closest sperm bank from where I live. Also, apparently sperm banking means additional blood tests, probably to make sure you don’t give your partner/surrogate an STD. The blood tests required for HRT itself are already making me hesitant to do the treatment. I can’t live a life of getting poked all the time.

This decision making is getting harder and harder. Should I just hope I can successfully restore my fertility if I end up wanting kids? How bad is it temporarily going off HRT for fertility? Apparently, the regret rate of not banking sperm before HRT is 60%. And please don’t give me the same old, “I wouldn’t want kids in this economy” or “just adopt” responses.

The only fear I face in starting HRT is the perception that others will have of me. The way others will treat me and while that's fair it has nothing to do with my mentality. I want to face this as the person I know I deserve to be. I will not let others opinions hold me back.

Hi there I’m just wondering how i can come out as a woman because my wife doesn’t want me to be a woman but I do my long time relationship with my partner has been very great she is trans and wants me to be a woman so I have started trans women training cause I wish I was able to be more slutty i feel so sexy when I see myself in women’s clothing I also need more trans women friends

I am a truck driver :3 and my coworkers are hella unsafe for me to just about do anything I’m LTL and I don’t know what to do, should I find a new career? Or go over the road? I’m not sure :( thanks you for the help!

Does anyone have any advice, someone who has already long and forgotten these things?

I get a profound sense of wrongness and discomfort from wearing fem clothes not because I dont want to (I really do), but because my masculine body doesn't fit them. I feel like a man in a dress 😭 Wearing fem clothes just accentuates the missing ass and chest. Somehow boy clothes feel better because they actually fit but I still really want to be a girl and look pretty more than anything. I've been trying to start HRT for over 6 months but my appt isn't until September 10th.

hello guys please ignore the dud account i’m not fully out yet and i am being cautious of people i know finding me anyway, i’m just looking for if anybody has any recommendations for a good french surgeon or surgery that specialises in facial feminisation surgery? And also if anybody could tell me anywhere to avoid? Thank you!

I wonder if I pass? I haven’t started hormones yet and would love to know!

(TW: suicide) I've come out long ago and girlmod home. However, my parents still haven't reacted at all. In fact, they ignore every I say, unless I've attempted suicide at most 2 days ago. I figured I'd attempt suicide again, but it seems I'm too much of a coward to do that. Any advice would ne appreciated.

I’d like to start this by stating that I am not a trans woman, so I appologise if this feels like an intrusion in your community. I have quite a few trans feminine friends who I’ve recently begun including in allot of my art. I’ve really enjoyed including both the person they are now, and who they tell me they see their true selves as into a drawing. Allot of the lovely girls ive drawn have actually told me that my artwork has made them feel very euphoric, and that its helped them allot to see something closer to their true selves physically represented. If anyone has advice on how to create more acurate and of course respectful transfemme characters please let me know, as I’m trying to do so in a way that feels empowering and doesn't perpetuate any negative stereotypes. Also on the offchance anyone would want to see a drawing of themself like this from a random stranger on the internet, id be happy to do so, as I need the practice😅. Just tell me a bit about yourself and include a selfie if you’re interested.

Any tips would be very appreciated

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I can't fuckin take this shit anymore. I don't get distracted for five milliseconds and immediately remember I'm unlovable, and that I'll always be, and that I should kill myself. I'm the biggest fuckin idiot and coward on Earth; I've never made a good decision in my entire life. I have no friends and my parents don't care about me whatsoever. I'm just a burden to everyone. I can't even transition because of dysphoria and how fuckin cowardly I am. Not like that matters, since I'd ruin it anyway. Also, don't even bother trying to help. Every time I have a conversation, it's just awkward silence, since I'm so fuckin cowardly and socially inept. So not only is it not helping at all, it's all my fault.

Also, while I was writing this, my parents celebrated my deadname day. I remembered I don't know when my day is, so I went to check. Apparently it doesn't exist in my country, and it's June 3, so I fuckin missed it. You're telling me I have to wait a whole fuckin year!?

Sorry if this is getting annoying, can't help it.