1. Am I transgender?

That’s not for us to decide. We can’t tell you the answer to this. This is something for you to decide on your own. We can provide resources to help you decide but we can’t tell you, definitively, that you are or are not transgender.

2. What are trans people?

Trans people are a group of people that experience gender dysphoria and/or gender euphoria. These people include but are not limited to: Trans Men and Women, Bigender individuals, Nonbinary/Gender Queer individuals, Gender Fluid individuals, Agender individuals, Demigender individuals, Intersexed Individuals, Demi Boys and Demi Girls, ect.

3. What is gender dysphoria?

From webMD:

“People who have gender dysphoria feel strongly that they are not the gender they physically appear to be.

“For example, a person who has a penis and all other physical traits of a male might feel instead that [they are] actually a female. That person would have an intense desire to have a female body and to be accepted by others as a female. Or, someone with the physical characteristics of a female would feel [their] true identity is male.”

4. What is gender euphoria?

From Urban Dictionary:

“The opposite of gender dysphoria.
Of a cisgender person, it is a state of happiness about being male or female and having the associated gender roles and body parts.
Of a transgender person, it refers to feeling great about living as your desired gender.”

5. What effects will I experience on HRT?/How long until X effect is achieved?

This is a very loaded, and very complicated question to answer. The short answer that you should always get is this YMMV (or Your Mileage May Vary.) What does this mean? It means we don’t know. Everyone’s body is different and works differently. You also have to take in to consideration genetics. What one person may experience during HRT may not be what someone else experiences.

That being said, we here at Trans-Helping-Trans are more than happy to share what is generally experienced by different people on HRT.

Here is a time line of what an AMAB bodied person *could* experience on estrogen:

Here is a time line of what an AFAB bodied person *could* experience on testosterone:

6. How do I/should I come out to X?

That’s not really for us to say. We don’t know who these people in your life are, and don’t know how they’re going to react to you coming out. This is something usually reserved for your best judgement. 

Some different ways to come out are: through a letter, digitally (texts, emails, videos ect.), over the phone, or the good old fashioned sit down and talk.

7. Why doesn’t this blog use the term trans*?

Please see this post by Transgender Teen Survival Guide:X

8. Why does this blog put spaces between Trans Men and Trans Women?

It’s trans men and trans women, not transmen and transwomen—trans is an adjective that answers “what kind of men/women"—cis works the same way.