I'm on estrogen and it effects everything!
It basically gives you all of the secondary female characteristics; it creates growth in your breasts, widens the hips and rear end, it reduces hair in face and chest, creates smoother skin, softens your body. It does everything little by little, it isn't like it just does one thing first, it sort of does everything as you go. The amount of estrogen you are on needs to be determined by a doctor. Don't try it yourself, it is powerful what you are doing, it could be bad for your health, if you take the wrong amount of estrogen for yourself. Make certain you are in a doctor's care when taking estrogen.
Gradually you will develop a female body.
Estrogen also effects your male sexuality. People that say otherwise are not being truthful to you. Your male sexuality is diminshed by taking estrogen. You will become over a period of time less potent if you are on estrogen. That is why many She-Male ladies have somewhat limp and feminized "ladysticks", and why some people refer to their femininzed male genetalia as "ladysticks". You can still come, my man still gives me handjobs or oral sex, but I am not as virile as I was before I started taking the estrogen.
However, most transexual women are into a submissive feminine role in their relationship with their man anyway, and recieve sex from him. Many men who date She-male ladies also like a feminized limp ladystick on their She-Male lady, they find it sexy and adorable, after all, we are femininzed sissys, we are feminized girly-girls, we are ladies, and we are in a feminine submissive role with our loving men.
My man Jay loves my beautiful woman's face, my beautiful woman's breasts and hips, my long silky blonde hair, my silk and chiffon skirts, dresses and scarves, my earrings dangling from my pierced ears, my lipsticked lips kissing his lips or careesing his big beautiful virile manstick, and my limp, sissified, feminized ladystick.
I am a sissified, effeminate man who has been turned into a feminine, submissive, loving woman, a beautiful lady. All of those things turn my man on, and he takes me as his lady, and pleasures himself, and pleasures me.
Men who want their She-Male ladies to be ultra virile studs and to recieve sex from them like a gay man does from another man, are basically bisexual or gay men.
My handsome man Jay is more of a masculine man, who prefers the man's role in a relationship, the dominant role, just as I prefer the feminine, submissive woman's role in the relationship. Jay is basically a hetrosexual man who just prefers transexual women. Many T-ladies prefer masculine men who are in the male role in the relationship, just as the majority of genetic women prefer that in a man.
I love being with a handsome, masculine man, who treats me as a lady, and makes love to me as his lady.
I have no desire to be with a sissy gay boy, who wants me to be a stud and penetrate his rear end and give him anal sex that way. I am the lady in the relationship, I am the one who is feminine. Most transexual women are not in the least interested in bisexual men or gay men who want to be dominated by us. We are the ladies in the relationship. We are the feminine and submissive beautiful women.
My man Jay takes me as his lady, from behind, and of course I give him oral sex on occasion. When I am castarated and given a beautiful vagina, I will have sex as a genetic woman does with a man. Instead of recieving anal sex and giving oral sex, I will recieve sex the traditional way a woman does from a man, and of course I will give my darliing, handsome man oral sex as well. I love to please him, and he will please me.
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As far as hair on face and chest goes, the estrogen itself will not usually cause all of it to go away, you need to go to an electrolysis clinic and have your hair on face and chest removed with laser or electrolysis.
The people at the electrolysis clinic will determine what method of hair removal is best for you, depending upon your skin type and other factors. It should be done professionally, as should all aspects of your feminization. It does cost money, you can't do it on the cheap.
If you are over 25, you may not get as large of women's breasts as you want either, just with estrogen. You might need to have breast implants as I have had, and may transexual women have had. I have younger transexual women who are friends of mine who transitioned in their late teens or early twenties, who have grown women's breasts large enough with estrogen, some of them have been fully transitioned to women, have had their legal status changed to female, and are married to men and have adopted children. Because they have " natural" women's breasts with estrogen, they can even breast feed their adopted babies! But it is easier for younger transexual women to grow full sized women's breasts with estrogen.
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Your voice also needs to be trained to speak feminine as a woman. The estrogen by itself won't change your voice that much. I have taken lessons on speaking feminine as a woman, and it really helped. You can basically learn to speak as an alto woman.
The facial feminizing surgery is very important. Once you are given a woman's face it will really help in your confidence to live as a woman, and be accepted a a woman in socoety. If you look at photos of She-Males, you can usually tell which ones have had facial feminization surgery, they basicaly look like women after the surgery, some of them very beautiful and feminine women.
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Sexual reassignment surgery isn't necessary to look like a woman, act like a woman, or pass as a woman in society. However to be legally a woman, you need to be castarated and given a beautiful vagina. Some transexual women prefer to stay as She-Males, they look female in every way, except their male genetalia, which of course no one sees except their lover. Other transexual women get the sexual reassignment surgery.
It could depend upon what you want done, and also the man you are with, if he prefers you as a She-Male woman or as a complete Transexual woman. In order to have your legal status changed to female, which of course would allow you to marry a man, and even adopt children in some states or countries, because you are considered then a hetrosexual lady, you need the sexual reasignment surgery.
You may remember the famous transexual woman "Chablis" in the movie "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil". She has been on estrogen for years, has a woman's face and woman's breasts, she lives as a woman and is accepted as such, and a beautiful and feminine woman, she dates men, but she never had her sexual reassignment surgery done, she is a She-Male lady.
Other transexual women, like the famous singer, the beautiful and feminine Dana International, are not only on estrogen, and been completely feminized, but also have had sexual reassignment surgery and had their legal status changed to female.
So it just depends.
I consider She-Males as well as complete transexual women, to be transexual women, they look like women, and live as women. The only difference is that the She-Male lady has kept her "ladystick" and testicles, while the complete transexual lady has had her ladystick and testicles removed by sexual reassignment surgery and replaced with a beautiful vagina.
Either way, to me they are T-ladies, transexual women. I am a transexual woman now, and live, look, and act like a lady. I just haven't had my SRS yet.
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It really depends what you want, and what kind of man you are with, or want to be with.
If you want to marry a man, and possibly adopt children, and become a wife and a mother, you would need to get the SRS, and get your legal status changed to female.
If you are a She-Male lady or a complete Transexual lady, either way, you will also need a new wardrobe of women's clothes of course. But that is the fun part! I have many of my skirts, dresses, blouses, and fashion scarves made for me by my seamstress Kathy. Or I buy them at women's stores. I am very much a girly-girl and am usually in a skirt, women's blouses, dresses, I wear very feminine clothes. If you want to wear high heels, you will have to learn how to walk in them. And I shave my legs and underarms of course. I am a lady.
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As far as hairstyles go, some transexual ladies wear short, cute women's hairstyles like short bob cuts or short pixie 'dos. Other transexual women like myself, wear their hair long, my long blonde tresses are two-thirds of the way down my back. Just like with genetic women, your choice of clothes and hairstyles are your decision, just make sure you look feminine and ladylike! Estrogen will stop any male pattern balding and will make your hair more beautiful, which is another advantageof taking estrogen. I am fortunate that I have no balding at all, I have a full head of beautiful, silky, straight, long blonde hair, which I take very good care of. Iplan on growing my beautiful long tresses to at least tailbone length.
I am also very into jewelry, I wear earrings in my pierced ears, sometimes necklaces, and braclets, I wear only women's jewelry of course. I like fine jewelry, espcially gold and diamonds.
You need to learn how to do your makeup also. My man Jay loves watching me put on my makeup and shaving my legs and underarms. I never go out without at least eye makeup on, I always wear eyeliner, and sometimes wear mascara and other makeup. I often wear lipstick or lipgloss.
Part of the fun of being a genetic lady or a transexual lady is dolling yourself up very feminine!
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As far as dating men goes, some transexual women date women, they are lesbians, some T-ladies are bisexuals, but the majority of transexual women date men, just as the majority of genetic women do.
Really, once you make the transition from male to female, and become completely femininzed, you become like a genetic lady, except of course we can't get pregnant and give birth to children, but in every other way, we live, look, and act as women. We can even get married to men, and adopt children, and be wives and moms. We are women, we are beautiful, feminine ladies. The more classy, feminine, and ladylike you are, and the more you know how to treat a man, and make him feel masculine and handsome, because you are beautiful and feminine, the better chance you have of being with a classy, handsome, masculine man who will treat you like a lady.