So, my egg finally cracked a few weeks ago. And while generally dysphoria isn’t terrible for me at the moment, one thing that is really making me uncomfortable is my body hair. I’ve always been pretty hairy, so I bought an epilator a while ago, and while I’m really happy with it for my legs (smooth legs are aweeesome!), I’m having a hard time on my belly and chest. There’s just so much and it regrows so quickly, and with how sensitive these areas are, I’m having a hard time keeping up.

Do you have any other tips or ideas, or do I just have to power through? I’ve heard it gets better if you do it often, but I can’t feel much of a difference yet

And how are your experiences with body hair on HRT? I’m not on E yet, but would you say it gets better?

Thanks :3

  • @amethyst@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    10•1 year ago

    I mentioned this in another recent thread, but I spent a lot of time looking through reddit threads where transgirls talked about body hair.

    What I thought was interesting is that:

    • while you do get a lot of responses that say it only somewhat reduces body hair
    • there were several folk who said it eventually did pretty much stop growth in many places (especially the torso), but that it took 3-4 years.
    • One thing generally agreed on was that no matter what, hair on the legs/forearms will stick around; that’s typical for cis women as well. (There’s a lot of variability where cis women will have noticeable hair, but almost always on the legs/forearms.)

    In online spaces you’ll generally see a lot more folk in the 0-2yrs range of HRT (because they’re newer and have more things they want to talk about.) So my guess is that the long term reduction in body hair is larger than you’d think just skimming threads like this one.

    I’m at a bit more than 2 years, and it definitely has reduced a lot on my chest/shoulders/back/butt/upper arms, but I still have to shave occasionally (especially chest/butt). For now I’m content to see if the rest goes away on its own.