Rei

I agree with everything Chloe said. HRT is working super well for you. I know it’s hard but we can see it’s working on the picture and it’ll keep working.

And you’re young, I started at 31 and I pass, even on the days were I just crawl out of the house no makeup or anything.

When I came out, I was worried of being too old, and then I saw other trans people that started in their 50s or 60s and were passing peeling perfectly. I remember looking at this woman’s selfie and thinking: “that’s just an older woman”. No clocking, or anything. It’s never too late.

It’s my understanding than in up to date recommendations, cypro is one of your last alternatives and with a preemptive and later control MRIs to check for brain tumors (meningioma) and similar issues. That’s just the scariest but other side effects aren’t happy either as you know.

Thank you for the clarification! I wasn’t sure whether Japan mostly operated on a public healthcare like in the EU or private healthcare like in the US.

It’s a topic I find super interesting and Universal Healthcare is under attack by neoliberals and other right wing political actors about everywhere it’s been enacted like my own country, France. So it is very interesting to learn about how it work in other places.

Thanks for sharing all that, that’s super interesting. I hope you don’t mind is I ask a few questions. I don’t know anything about healthcare in Japan, if and what is public, and what is private.

When you talk about insurance, do you mean a private health insurance that you pay for?

And are those 70% you mention at the end also from a private health insurance?

I got some hormone prescription change recently. Feels pretty good.

Jerboa also shows the symbol.

Got my legal name/gender marker change approved. Now I need to wait for papers before requesting changes to more papers but at least I’m making progress.