I like being a dude, I enjoy dressing in a “manly” way, and if I had to change something about my body, I’d wish for broader shoulders without having to work out, or the ability to grow a decent beard without looking stupid. I couldn’t imagine having breasts or not having a penis, that would just be wrong.
That said, if I had somehow been born as a girl, I doubt it would have changed much about me (ignoring the different expectations / gender norms and all that shit). If someone offered me to magically swap into a female body for a day or two, I am pretty sure my curiosity would win.
Manhood can be a spectrum with all sorts of variants. What you wish to feel as is what you feel as!
Scottish men wear kilts on formal occassions, women frequently wear trousers. Lipstick or nail polish is used by men and women alike.
I personally view myself as a gal, but I generally like to dress neutrally/masculinely. Only very rarely do I go full skirty, so to say.
Transitioning can be in all sorts of ways, some transition only by dress, others only hormonally, others medically, and others do some or all of these. Some trans gals keep their dick, others want it gone.
If you’re thinking of hormones, is a pretty big thing, but it’s generally reversible up to three months. I’d recommend storing your reproduction cells (sperm/eggs), before starting. This is because hormones will make you temporarily infertile, and if used for longer (e.g. if you wanna continue), permanently. If you wanna stop to store them, you get some hormonpausal (peno-/menopausal) symptoms.
I actually offered hormones to a cis friend as a joke before, but he was like “nah, no thanks”. And that’s valid too. For me, and they helped me a lot in that I felt more home in my body - that my body was becoming more my own rather than some foreign body my spirit inhabited.
For the beard thing, for you - it depends. Most guys don’t get the capacity for a ‘full’ beard until their mid-twenties, some even take until their thirties. I don’t know where you’re at but I think you’ll be fine in that regard :p
I can relate to that.
I like being a dude, I enjoy dressing in a “manly” way, and if I had to change something about my body, I’d wish for broader shoulders without having to work out, or the ability to grow a decent beard without looking stupid. I couldn’t imagine having breasts or not having a penis, that would just be wrong.
That said, if I had somehow been born as a girl, I doubt it would have changed much about me (ignoring the different expectations / gender norms and all that shit). If someone offered me to magically swap into a female body for a day or two, I am pretty sure my curiosity would win.
Manhood can be a spectrum with all sorts of variants. What you wish to feel as is what you feel as!
Scottish men wear kilts on formal occassions, women frequently wear trousers. Lipstick or nail polish is used by men and women alike.
I personally view myself as a gal, but I generally like to dress neutrally/masculinely. Only very rarely do I go full skirty, so to say.
Transitioning can be in all sorts of ways, some transition only by dress, others only hormonally, others medically, and others do some or all of these. Some trans gals keep their dick, others want it gone.
If you’re thinking of hormones, is a pretty big thing, but it’s generally reversible up to three months. I’d recommend storing your reproduction cells (sperm/eggs), before starting. This is because hormones will make you temporarily infertile, and if used for longer (e.g. if you wanna continue), permanently. If you wanna stop to store them, you get some hormonpausal (peno-/menopausal) symptoms.
I actually offered hormones to a cis friend as a joke before, but he was like “nah, no thanks”. And that’s valid too. For me, and they helped me a lot in that I felt more home in my body - that my body was becoming more my own rather than some foreign body my spirit inhabited.
For the beard thing, for you - it depends. Most guys don’t get the capacity for a ‘full’ beard until their mid-twenties, some even take until their thirties. I don’t know where you’re at but I think you’ll be fine in that regard :p