#i'm not menopause or puberty age so as a twenty-something i realised i can pick and choose what to equate my transition to
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more cisgender women should be looking at cisgender boys' puberty as a menopause preview, honestly. i find that cis men treat menopause with more pause, ironically, because they recognise the emotional/physical rollercoaster - gee, your body is suddenly sweating absolute buckets and smelling way outside of your control? you feel gross, you keep growing patchy hairs in new itchy places, and summers have suddenly become unbearable? woof, been there done that, let's get you an ice pack and some gatorade buddy, i mean mom
until menopause hits them, cis women (among others) can sometimes treat male puberty as a gross horror that they are forced to mitigate the consequences of - ugh, men with their hair and their smelliness that they can't keep sanitised, it's a concession to live with them, it's a chore to share space with them. you know it's not just a Boy Hormone, right? this exact same testosterone will jump you in a dark alley 30 years from now, you can accept it before then or keep treating it like an enemy latched onto those around you
#i'm not menopause or puberty age so as a twenty-something i realised i can pick and choose what to equate my transition to#and it makes me wonder why they dont get equated more often in a more genuine empathetic fashion#lgbt#gender#i wish there was a way to tag for bigotry against men that didnt fall into a tag that someone out there would call misogynist lol#bigotry against male bodies. whatever. bigotry against male gonad hormone effects on a body whatever gender it may be#transandrophobia#i guess since im a trans man and i feel uniquely crammed into these expectations and this distaste for what im choosing to do#also this applies to more people than just cis women but they often dont think about maleness as something AT ALL relevant to them#other people may have to work through distaste for hair/maleness alongside their gender exploration for similar self-love reasons
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