: Re: What would a FtM transman's, who was born in 1990, life be like? I am writing a story with a trans character (female to male) set in the 1990's. My main character's parents are supportive

For transmen the hormone treatments are steroids. They can find them through a gym, even a clever 14yo who is training harder to keep his body muscular, and probably recognize the natural boost of adrenaline and testosterone hormones from exercise as a good feeling. Being serious about athletics would fast track him to people with more experience using hormones and other methods to body enhance.

Ditto, a transwoman who has a sister on birth control or a mother who has had plastic surgery. Hormones are not difficult to figure out, and they are used for the same purposes by cisgendered so they are not at all rare.

He would relate with other young men attempting to masculinize their physique, adopting the behavior and dress of older boys, counting every hair on his lip and chin, and fantasizing about the private lives of celebrities and sports heroes. Don't forget to make him a kid.

Most of his experience would depend on his parents (a mom with the internet would have been educating herself since he was the a-typical toddler). Not all cultures react in the same way to gender variance or psychiatry, and then again neither do individual parents and family members so the home experience really could be almost anything â€“ including having bigger problems than a teen who is picky about his clothes and what name you use in front of his friends to not embarrass him. This is all relatable family drama. If there are siblings they will each have "issues" ahead of them from the parents' point of view. To outsiders it might seem "exotic" but for this family it is a daily routine, and they have never known otherwise.

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