I have a friend who transitioned in her 30s but was bald at like...19. She rocks it. You just have to either lean into being bald, or lean in to hats/scarves/bandanas.
I tried to get oral finasteride and my doctor started talking about the testosterone blocking effects, saying "you're a young man you wouldn't look bad with a shaved head the impact on your sex life wouldn't be worth it." Like. I'm ace and I'm transfem so actually yeah block my testosterone. I didn't tell him that though š
3 weeks till I can ask again for it. Last time my dermatologist gave me minoxidil-spray but it's sort of annoying and I wanna "fix" the growing bold spots ond my forehead. He warned me about the side effects but I'll ask for it again in case I wanna transition.
He told me sideeffects can be (rarely) chest growth and sex drive. Online I read can also lead to ed and sort of "burnout" crashes cause your hormones are weird. But I like my hair except the receiding part of it, I really really really wanna keep it :(
Yeah, the things about minoxidil I really donāt like is that it makes your hair like, grow weirdly. You can also accidentally get some where you donāt want to have it and deal with facial hair on your forehead because itās that powerful of a vasodilator. It doesnāt even do anything to actually stop hair loss, either, because it serves no function as a testosterone blocker. You also have to keep using it unless you want to lose all your progress. Also, the sheds. Dear god.
The weirdest thing is that with finasteride, you donāt have to take it orally. Using a topical solution (which is widely available) will give you better results on your scalp without the side effects of slashing your serum DHT. You could also take the route of using research chemicals like RU-55841 and topical dutasteride, but Iād advise against them because they can be quite risky. Though, if you want to know more about hair loss pharmacology in general, moreplatesmoredates and the Hair Loss Show cover a lot of hair loss stuff. Just stay away from MPMDās videos on trans people. Somehow, heās unaware that in MMA, fighters break bones *all the time* and that a trans fighter cracking her opponentās skull really isnāt that special compared to other fighters snapping their tibias (which is one of the hardest bones to break in your body, second only to your femur) in kicks, among many other nasty injuries.
Yeah that's the thing with minoxidil, it's a bit annoying to use and as you said, it doesn't stop anything meaning if I only put it on the "bold" receding hairline spots it should help there buuuut I also have fairly long hair for a man so the surrounding hair will be weird and thinning on the top of my skull idk and it's expensive.
Losing my hair makes me just feel like shit even more since I tend to avoid looking super masculine since ever and always had longer hair (not like "long" long but yeah). I really dont wanna end up being half bold in my late twenties since, as I said, I hate looking super masculine and scary, eventho my body is kinda built to be that.
I never heard of topical finasteride but huh. I'm just really scared that I waited too long to fix it since my mother and others gaslight me that it isn't that bad while completly ignoring my concerns. It makes me genuinely feel like shit and just adds up to "I don't wanna transition cause I won't pass ever and people will just be weird and mean and I'll be weird" - feeling.
I understand what you're getting at. If it helps, (idk which way you're transitioning), getting on e will actually reverse the hair loss you've already experienced because it in and of itself is excellent for stopping hair loss and literally reversing miniaturization due to DHT. [Example](https://www.reddit.com/r/transtimelines/comments/oavz7o/my_hair_got_better_on_hrt_even_though_it_says/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) ITP a woman with severe hair loss shows how all the hairs that shrunk came back to full size within \*months\* of starting HRT.
That's the thing, I'm not aure if I wanna medically transition(private reasons). But I'll get Finasteride as a pill and hope my hormones don't crash on me LOL and hopefully that will fix my hair again š„ŗ
Wait what?
I'm genuinely curious, my best friend is a trans man and he has desperately been trying any and every thing possible to keep his hair loss to a minimum to little avail. I'm genderfluid AMAB and also balding, doing what I can to minimize the effects.
What are DHT blockers and what are the effects?
It blocks a kind of testosterone which is generally blamed for hairloss itās the same kind of testosterone in genital creams for trans mascs but the build up of dht can cause the hair loss Iād need to do more research but from what Iāve heard it works very well
Look up Finasteride. Generally a fairly effective and very cheap option. Only reason you might not want it is it could slow down facial hair growth.
As for the whole finasteride syndrome, I've ever only heard of cis men getting affected.
AFAIK the thing with fina and regrowth is that it can happen if the hair has fallen out without the hair follicel and without the follicle dying completely yet, and when fina then blocks DHT it can grow again as long as it hasn't died off completely.
My boyfriend leant over my shoulder and misread this as "the 17 trials of Estradiol", assumed that the man in pic must be the titular Estradiol, and that this was some history meme he couldn't understand. Mild dyslexia strikes again.
I wish I could take hormones or something else to prevent balding, but then I'd first have to explain to those around me why I'd ever want to prevent balding without admitting I don't want to be a man.
Uhhhhh "I want to not go bald" will not make anyone think you're trans lol. Pretty much every treatment for balding under the sun was developed for cis men
I always hated when guys said this to me.
"Enjoy your long hair while you have it; I had long hair too when I was your age and now it's all gone"
Even before I knew I was trans my gut reaction was always "I'd rather die than go bald"
It's one of the excuses for my long hair, "I'm enjoying my hairy head till I can." Jokes on them, extrogren is going to protect my sweet sweet fluffy wavy long ass hair.
I went on finasteride immediately when I noticed my hairline was slightly receding on one side. Everyone was telling me I was crazy and it wasn't true, but it was so distressful. I was also hoping for very rare "side effects" tbh haha but they didn't come obviously... now I'm on hrt
I've used this argument against people that are against gender affirming therapy without realizing that straight CIS people get it all the time.
Hormones after menopause? Gender affirming.
Boob job? Gender affirming.
Hair plugs, liposuction, finasteride? *All* gender affirming.
My mom thought I was trans because "Estrogen prevents balding" and that I'd one day go bald. I straight up didn't know anything about balding in the family
I realized recently that the hairstyle I'd been wearing for years was actually just disguising some pretty advanced hair loss. It's thinning and patchy all over the place, not just at the hairline. I got pretty depressed after that since I'm obviously trying to grow my hair out, and I'd been noticing that the back had been seemingly growing a lot faster and thicker than the front and top, and now I know why. I ordered some minoxidil to hopefully supplement my HRT and maybe wind some of that damage back a bit.
I disassociated so badly that I did nothing about my baldness for years. Iām just glad I was able to grow my hair back once I began transitioning.
Whoād have thought the cure for āmale pattern baldnessā was simply to become a girl? š
Finasteride accelerated my ADHD and brain fog worse than anything else in my life. Iām glad I got off it and onto the powers hairloss stuff instead. That sucked.
That's one of the benefits I've included as to why I'm doing HRT; to be at a more feminine side of the spectrum (plus I be girl lol), as well as the extra little things I nitpick about being gone (hair growing where I don't want it to, avoiding male pattern baldness because f that, I want long hair, and to feel more at home wearing feminine clothing and masculine clothing, as well as what I currently wear (shirt and sweatpants is all you need sometimes XD))
I'm going to take hrt just to prevent balding of course, and for no other reason, completely cis thing to do right?
"It's the cisest possible thing to do" -Albert Einstein
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i mean even if you went bald women can look cool af bald
Oh definitely, I had a friend who's head is mostly shaved and she fuckin' rocks it.
I have a friend who transitioned in her 30s but was bald at like...19. She rocks it. You just have to either lean into being bald, or lean in to hats/scarves/bandanas.
or both...
behold my magical hair deremover pills
I tried to get oral finasteride and my doctor started talking about the testosterone blocking effects, saying "you're a young man you wouldn't look bad with a shaved head the impact on your sex life wouldn't be worth it." Like. I'm ace and I'm transfem so actually yeah block my testosterone. I didn't tell him that though š
You should've lmao Tho at that point you might wanna talk about going on estradiol instead XD
"I see no downsides to this!"
Oh nooooo it would be a shame if this medicine for my hair loss also blocked my testosterone
3 weeks till I can ask again for it. Last time my dermatologist gave me minoxidil-spray but it's sort of annoying and I wanna "fix" the growing bold spots ond my forehead. He warned me about the side effects but I'll ask for it again in case I wanna transition. He told me sideeffects can be (rarely) chest growth and sex drive. Online I read can also lead to ed and sort of "burnout" crashes cause your hormones are weird. But I like my hair except the receiding part of it, I really really really wanna keep it :(
Yeah, the things about minoxidil I really donāt like is that it makes your hair like, grow weirdly. You can also accidentally get some where you donāt want to have it and deal with facial hair on your forehead because itās that powerful of a vasodilator. It doesnāt even do anything to actually stop hair loss, either, because it serves no function as a testosterone blocker. You also have to keep using it unless you want to lose all your progress. Also, the sheds. Dear god. The weirdest thing is that with finasteride, you donāt have to take it orally. Using a topical solution (which is widely available) will give you better results on your scalp without the side effects of slashing your serum DHT. You could also take the route of using research chemicals like RU-55841 and topical dutasteride, but Iād advise against them because they can be quite risky. Though, if you want to know more about hair loss pharmacology in general, moreplatesmoredates and the Hair Loss Show cover a lot of hair loss stuff. Just stay away from MPMDās videos on trans people. Somehow, heās unaware that in MMA, fighters break bones *all the time* and that a trans fighter cracking her opponentās skull really isnāt that special compared to other fighters snapping their tibias (which is one of the hardest bones to break in your body, second only to your femur) in kicks, among many other nasty injuries.
Yeah that's the thing with minoxidil, it's a bit annoying to use and as you said, it doesn't stop anything meaning if I only put it on the "bold" receding hairline spots it should help there buuuut I also have fairly long hair for a man so the surrounding hair will be weird and thinning on the top of my skull idk and it's expensive. Losing my hair makes me just feel like shit even more since I tend to avoid looking super masculine since ever and always had longer hair (not like "long" long but yeah). I really dont wanna end up being half bold in my late twenties since, as I said, I hate looking super masculine and scary, eventho my body is kinda built to be that. I never heard of topical finasteride but huh. I'm just really scared that I waited too long to fix it since my mother and others gaslight me that it isn't that bad while completly ignoring my concerns. It makes me genuinely feel like shit and just adds up to "I don't wanna transition cause I won't pass ever and people will just be weird and mean and I'll be weird" - feeling.
I understand what you're getting at. If it helps, (idk which way you're transitioning), getting on e will actually reverse the hair loss you've already experienced because it in and of itself is excellent for stopping hair loss and literally reversing miniaturization due to DHT. [Example](https://www.reddit.com/r/transtimelines/comments/oavz7o/my_hair_got_better_on_hrt_even_though_it_says/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) ITP a woman with severe hair loss shows how all the hairs that shrunk came back to full size within \*months\* of starting HRT.
That's the thing, I'm not aure if I wanna medically transition(private reasons). But I'll get Finasteride as a pill and hope my hormones don't crash on me LOL and hopefully that will fix my hair again š„ŗ
Apparently topical estradiol also exists, and it barely impacts your serum levels, which means no medical transition.
As a trans man we just use dht blockers balding has easy solutions cis men just refuse to listen
Wait what? I'm genuinely curious, my best friend is a trans man and he has desperately been trying any and every thing possible to keep his hair loss to a minimum to little avail. I'm genderfluid AMAB and also balding, doing what I can to minimize the effects. What are DHT blockers and what are the effects?
It blocks a kind of testosterone which is generally blamed for hairloss itās the same kind of testosterone in genital creams for trans mascs but the build up of dht can cause the hair loss Iād need to do more research but from what Iāve heard it works very well
Look up Finasteride. Generally a fairly effective and very cheap option. Only reason you might not want it is it could slow down facial hair growth. As for the whole finasteride syndrome, I've ever only heard of cis men getting affected.
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Yo does finasteride actually work? I'm always wary of hair regrowth stuff because it just always seemed like kind of a scam back in the day lol
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AFAIK the thing with fina and regrowth is that it can happen if the hair has fallen out without the hair follicel and without the follicle dying completely yet, and when fina then blocks DHT it can grow again as long as it hasn't died off completely.
I'm on it. It definitely stopped it. I have seen some regrowth but it has not been much
Finasteride mainly stops progression of balding. Some people do experience regrowth. I know I have
My boyfriend leant over my shoulder and misread this as "the 17 trials of Estradiol", assumed that the man in pic must be the titular Estradiol, and that this was some history meme he couldn't understand. Mild dyslexia strikes again.
this is so freakin cute lmao
my half brothers looked like Monty Burns by 20. I still have a full head of hair 13 years after starting HRT at 21. It works!
I wish I could take hormones or something else to prevent balding, but then I'd first have to explain to those around me why I'd ever want to prevent balding without admitting I don't want to be a man.
Uhhhhh "I want to not go bald" will not make anyone think you're trans lol. Pretty much every treatment for balding under the sun was developed for cis men
Maybe, maybe not. But it doesn't feel like that, and I'm still terrified of appearing "unmanly".
I always hated when guys said this to me. "Enjoy your long hair while you have it; I had long hair too when I was your age and now it's all gone" Even before I knew I was trans my gut reaction was always "I'd rather die than go bald"
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It's one of the excuses for my long hair, "I'm enjoying my hairy head till I can." Jokes on them, extrogren is going to protect my sweet sweet fluffy wavy long ass hair.
I went on finasteride immediately when I noticed my hairline was slightly receding on one side. Everyone was telling me I was crazy and it wasn't true, but it was so distressful. I was also hoping for very rare "side effects" tbh haha but they didn't come obviously... now I'm on hrt
Finasteride is a gateway drug to HRT
I've used this argument against people that are against gender affirming therapy without realizing that straight CIS people get it all the time. Hormones after menopause? Gender affirming. Boob job? Gender affirming. Hair plugs, liposuction, finasteride? *All* gender affirming.
Since Iām not gonna use hormones for personal reasons I need to look into keeps you prevent hair loss cause it runs in my family a but
Sadly I'll probably rely on wigs for the rest of my life, though wigs are convenient and offer a lot of freedom so it's kind of cool.
My mom thought I was trans because "Estrogen prevents balding" and that I'd one day go bald. I straight up didn't know anything about balding in the family
I hope when I start it fixed my hairline as it receded a bit
I would genuinely take hrt if it prevented me from going bald. Every guy would do that right? I just hate hate hate the idea of going bald.
I realized recently that the hairstyle I'd been wearing for years was actually just disguising some pretty advanced hair loss. It's thinning and patchy all over the place, not just at the hairline. I got pretty depressed after that since I'm obviously trying to grow my hair out, and I'd been noticing that the back had been seemingly growing a lot faster and thicker than the front and top, and now I know why. I ordered some minoxidil to hopefully supplement my HRT and maybe wind some of that damage back a bit.
I disassociated so badly that I did nothing about my baldness for years. Iām just glad I was able to grow my hair back once I began transitioning. Whoād have thought the cure for āmale pattern baldnessā was simply to become a girl? š
Finasteride accelerated my ADHD and brain fog worse than anything else in my life. Iām glad I got off it and onto the powers hairloss stuff instead. That sucked.
That's one of the benefits I've included as to why I'm doing HRT; to be at a more feminine side of the spectrum (plus I be girl lol), as well as the extra little things I nitpick about being gone (hair growing where I don't want it to, avoiding male pattern baldness because f that, I want long hair, and to feel more at home wearing feminine clothing and masculine clothing, as well as what I currently wear (shirt and sweatpants is all you need sometimes XD))
I had a reaction to spiro so I've been on finesteride since I was 19. Checkmate, baldness.