FTM Transgender 5 Year Comparison
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- čas přidán 12. 03. 2021
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“It’s funny how being on testosterone just gives you so many more tattoos” 😂
Edit; you’re so handsome 😭
😂
Alex's Quest to a Beard: Mission Accomplished I would say.
I’ve been following you since we were both fourteen years old, in the pre-trans realization days, and it’s just so bizarre to see you now. I’m starting T myself next month (so nervous) and this gives me a lot of hope. Here’s to eleven years of subscription, we’ve made it!
The tattoo progression looks so good
"His name was Pete."
1:25 "oh I wish I was straight-"
mhm your boyfriend sure is happy you're not
The bf is obviously bi so doesn't really make much difference.
Hey Alex! Just wanted to tell you that I've been here since before the top surgery, and I couldn't be more proud and happy to watch this video. You look so much happier and you're really an inspiration to so many people, non-trans included (like me). So thank you for sharing your stories and your journey. I wish you all the best! ❤️
i've followed you since you started taking t, i can't believe it's been 5 years?? you look so good!!
I just had my 5 year anniversary a couple of months ago too! I’m super excited for my top surgery anniversary this summer. I never had a real party or celebration in the first place, but I really really want to this year. I feel like it’s been the first year where I feel “okay” about my body collectively.
Your beard puts mine to shame. I’m STILL waiting for those little fuckers to connect around the mustache region. But seriously, it’s been super fucking cool seeing you through the years man. I’m a few years younger than you but I found your channel when I was about 11 (holy shit that was like 10 years ago??), and we coincidentally ended up going though T and top surgery at around the same time.
I hope life has been treating you well these days. Thanks for all the support your videos have given me over the years.
i absolutely love confidence on you. ive been watching your stuff since before you started T and it's so incredible to see how you've changed
Oh this is really useful as I literally started T yesterday and I didn’t know what to take photos of!
Dont
we've borrowed our eldest Sons appartment in Amsterdam for a week and amongst his books was your book "Transmission"
I've read it and really enjoyed it , it's given me an understanding of a subject I knew nothing about.
it's given me absolute respect for you and the process you have gone / are going through.
thank you
just finished reading your book and i love seeing how far you've came. you're in my school library :)
This video made me realize ive been subscribed for about 7 years 🤯 your entire transition has been amazing
This was such a journey, seeing how far you've become 🔥🔥🔥🔥
It’s so amazing seeing your growth! I started watching u when u were preT and I was in the closet. I’m finally 18, out of a transphobic household, and am now 4 months on T and feel amazing. You were such a big support for me and I’m glad you’re well :)
Its so heartwarming to see just how far you have come! Feeling comfortable with the way you look, with the way you feel about yourself is so important! I'm happy to see you happy 💖
You look so healthy. I'm so happy for you. Watching you over the past couple years has truly been so inspiring and enlightening. It makes me so happy to see you living your life genuinely.
You’ve come such a long way and I’m so happy for you :))
Alex, Thank you so much for still making these videos. I'm still relatively "new" on my journey (2 years on T and just 3 months post top-op) and it really means a lot to me to get to see someone so much further along. Kinda a glimpse into what I can expect. Although it's also kinda "nice" when people who used to make a lot of trans content become less active, because it is an encouragement to know that one day I will be able to get on with life and not have the trans part of me take up so much of my head space.
Very very happy for you. This also made me realize I have been following you for a long time now. You actually helped me be more comfortable in my body as well. Your tattoos are amazing! I hope you'll do a video about them again :)
Ive been following you for so long now, about 5 or 6 years. Your videos helped me to figure out i was trans. It's kinda amazing to see your progress after such a long time. I hope i can finally get top surgery this year.
Was here 9 years ago and here again for 2022. So great to have seen your journey alex🖤
can’t believe i’ve been following you for 5 years! you helped me figure out i was trans back then and i finally came out recently. so cool to see your progress!
I love this! I smiled all the way through this video. I’ve been following your channel for years! I’m so proud of you! ☺️ x
It was fun to watch :) Thanka for sharing it with us. We luv you
I’ve been watching you for about a decade and this makes me so happy
I've been following you since before you started T and I'm so happy seeing how far you've came ❤️ you give me hope!
ohmygod!! I’m cleaning out my subs and I just found you again!! I rem finding you pre-top surg!! Amazing!!
I'd love to see a video about your graphic design work :) So awesome to see your transition progress and how much more comfortable you are in your body, I've been watching you since pre-T. So delighted that you've finally finished the quest to a (very full!) beard! Hope you are having a wonderful day :)
I am so glad you are coming back strong have missed watching your videos
I havent watched many of your recent vids Alex, but in this you seem like 150% more confident and comfortable than what you did back when I knew you at school when we were kids! Its so lovely to see you becoming the person you were supposed to be . Hope you and the fam are doing well xx
Can’t believe its been 5 years already! So happy for you 💚
It’s truly incredible to see the man you’ve grown into. I remember when I found your channel 8 years ago when I stumbled across binding for beginners. You in your journey helped me discover who I am in mine and accept who I am. You were the first channel I really started watching and I’m sorry I haven’t stayed caught up for a few years but I just want to say I’m so happy for you and that after so many years you finally have your beard. I will say I miss the duck intro tho. But I truly am happy for you and I just wanted to express that
The photos are so different! Such an interesting video! ❤️
I’ve been watching you for 7 years but haven’t seen a video in a while but holy cow this is amazing
oh god, I've been following you since pre-t and so seeing these pictures side by side is WACK.
You are looking amazing, and I am happy for you that you have been able to come so far, and I thank you for being willing to share your journey so that, among other outcomes, those of us who do not know what it is like can learn more and try to be better allies.
also just want to say that your general demeanor has changed *so much* since your pre-t videos. obviously we all still struggle with things, but it’s so wonderful to see you smiling and laughing. i remember-both for myself and in your earlier videos-how much more riddled with angst they were. proud of you, Alex. thank you for allowing us to follow your journey 💜
Your recent exercise shows indeed. You're in great shape, man! Cheers from Italy.
Can't believe it's been five years already! Looking great man. Congrats on working on your health too, I'd love to see a video on that, I'm planning to get in better shape and eat healthier too
I've been following you from the beginning, it's been nice to see the transition over time 😊
I'm so happy for you and how long you've come... not just physically but mentally as well. genuinely I feel like you're happier now.
You truly deserve the best in life. 👍🏽❤️
Good to see you, man. I’ve missed your videos :)
Man, how time flies. I saw a comment by myself on one of your first post op videos and I couldn't believe the date lmao
You look amazing and happy. I'm so happy for you.
Hey Alex You did a Great Job in covering All that You Went Through and I Think You Would Be Great Presenting Talks in Schools about Your Journey .
Such a cool video Alex! I remember when you got on T and to see you now is really cool❤️
Day 1 sub Alex is literally the reason I came out and the person who made me understand myself and be comfortable and confident and I don’t think he’ll understand how grateful I am for that
I love how you approached this 💕
bro I'm revisiting my youtube obsessions from 2014 and wow I'm so proud of you. You helped me out so much. This is crazy
Ive been here for years , wish you the best Alex 🔥
From the first quest to Alex's beard till now... So proud to have followed you through
I subscribed to him such a long time ago. &’ omg I haven’t watched any of his videos since the early photos. It’s just so incredible to see him get closer to his end goal 😭😭😭
Ah! I've been following since before you were on T :o crazy that now I'm thinking of going on T myself. Thanks Alex for sharing, it really means a lot to younger trans guys like me
I'm 3 weeks late, but I just wanted to say congrats Alex! As a transman myself, I started T 5 years ago as well, about a week before you did and I remember being glad I did, cuz I wanted a head start since I knew right when you were going to start T, you were going to look really good, since you already did Pre-T hahah. But you're one of the first CZcams channels I watched when it came to trans topics/rants etc., back in 2014, along with Skylarkeleven and Ty Turner. It's been amazing to watch your transition the past 5 years, you definitely look more happy, and I bet feel more like yourself, keep doin you!
This gives me a lot of hope lol. Just finished four months on T and I know I shouldn't be, but I get frustrated waiting for changes to happen. Like my voice has dropped a bit, it's certainly a lot deeper than it used to be, but I'm hoping it drops way more and I hope my jawline squares out a lot more. I also really want my body hair to increase which might sound weird but it's really affirming for me. I guess because I've been out since I was 14-15 and I only just started T as a 20 yo that I get so frustrated waiting. In any case, tis gives me hope for the future.
You’ve come along way over the past 5 years Alex, The results are pretty amazing congratulations 🥳 Happy 5th year Anniversary of being a Man, I have a lot of respect for You and Transgender people 😉
They have been a man all along, they just had to come out.
@@spacedoodles yes I know that, a man mentally his whole life and now physically and visibly that’s why I’m congratulating him he is an inspiration 😉
I watched you pre t and then completely stopped watching until now. I cannot believe the progress. You look amazing! I'm completely shocked
Wow I've been watching you for over 5 years now. Looking good :)
Wow I've been subbed for 8 years. You look great, Alex!
I’ve been watching you since i was 14 ? 15 ? you really helped my whole trans journey a lot and you were always one of my “inspirations”. ig my doctors fucked up and weren’t monitoring my shit correctly, i was on a 1ml dose once a week and my testosterone levels were crazy high and i started to lose a lot of hair. i’ve been off T for awhile because of it, just to get it reigned in some, and seeing that you’ve also struggled with it really helps, especially because to me you look great and i wouldnt have even noticed hair loss of any kind on you, you just have a masculine hair line. this has really helped though. im hopefully going on finastride soon to help with it as well, and then hopefully i can get back on T.
Looking good 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 your transition is coming out great. Still in my transition ☹️ but getting more comfortable in my own skin 👍🏼
been watching you since i was 14 man. you helped and inspired me so much and made me feel normal. 23 now and getting top surgery in a month :)
Did you forget the word “armpit”? 😂 lookin good Alex
This was a whole ass journey 🙌🏻
Great to hear working out recently has been helping you, keep it up mate it does so much more than just tone your body 🙏🏼
HII ALEX I READ YOUR BOOK AND IT WAS AND WILL BE AMAZING FOR NEW READERS :DDD
I've been following you for a little while now.
I describe myself as Trans Non Binary and wanted to know the different stages and changes per year. And this video has really helped me with overcoming some dysphoria.
Thank you Alex 💙
I remember watching you videos when you were pre-T while I was still in denial of my trans identity and remember how happy I was for you when you finally got on hormones. I'm now almost 3 years on T myself, and am so proud of you and very grateful for sharing your journey with us. I'm like a year or two older than you, but was incredibly insecure and don't think I would have transitioned until decades later if it wasn't for your and other like you sharing their stories.
Loved this video dude! My family have just started trying to use the right name and pronouns so it’s really great to see what I could hopefully experience soon!
I watched your videos back then. I never understood why I related to them so much. I thought I was just being empathetic. Cuz I clearly wasn’t a trans man cuz man felt wrong too. Now I know it’s me being a non binary person. But thank you for getting my foot in the door of trans things all those years ago. For helping my brain learn that trans isn’t bad. That way when I stumbled into my knowledge of non binary, I was ready to know it is me. And thank you for keeping so many of these up so long so that I can go back and see those things again through the lense of myself being trans and grow again.
Hey Alex. You probably don’t know me, but I’ve been watching your channel for a long time. I remember being like 12 or 13 (I’m 23 now), and watching your Omegle fun video, your coming out video, your swag video, etc. I remember seeing the videos where you cried and poured out your heard to your viewers because of your Dysphoria and depression. I remember crying too, because I could relate (I’m trans too). I loved (and still love) your content. And then after a couple years I kind of stopped seeing notifications for you channel after I started subbing to more people, etc. That with other shit going on in my life made me forget your channel existed for awhile. But today, I decided to revisit the past and come back to your channel.
I can not express how happy I am for you, to see how you progressed, and how you grew. I can not express how warm I felt when seeing you with the facial hair, the voice, and the big Strong arms you wanted. I can not express how proud I am of you, upon seeing you wrote a book.
Alex, thank you. Thank you for inspiring me, and others. Thank you for helping me through the tough times when I was younger. Thank you for the humor, the tears, and the journey that you and your channel has brought. It means the world to me. Thank you. Thank you so fucking much.
-King Z
Just hopping along the ol' interwebs to tell you that I'm so, so happy to see that you've grown into a man who can be more comfortable and confident in himself. I watched your videos from back in the day when you were still on the waitlist to get put on testosterone, and the change is incredible. It's wonderful to see you smile like that.
Anyway, hoping you're having a good day.
sometimes I'm blown away how far you have come even though it also seems like you have always looked this way. And then I realise that means I've been watching this channel for a long long time. Like seven years I think.
I'm a little late, but omg I love how genuinely obsessed you are with your body now. Been following you since the beginning and it's been amazing to witness your transition. You look very close to how I imagined at the beginning. Such a handsome guy.
wow Alex, I can't believe I've been following you for that long! I remember when you started taking T!!!
Amazing changes dude 👌🏻
Five years already huh? Time sure does fly, I remember most of this from your transition vids!
I was here before you even started T. I cant believe it’s been 5 years. I’m happy for you alex
You posting this on the day that my prescription for T came through the post (after waiting a year after my initial private appointment) must be fate. I'm so excited to see my own progression now!
Also I’d really love to see what your favorite games are! Or it’d be cool to see you do a themed video game recommendation video (like genre or type specific!)
So happy you're happy man, the changes are insane! We made it 💪
What a journey! You look great!
Love this! I deleted all my pre T photos 🥲 btw if you workout your upper body you’ll get that Dorito shape ☺️
Hi there, I've been watching some of your videos. Thanks for sharing your story!
I'm only in the beginning of my transition, but i've been waiting over a year to talk to the gender clinic close to where I live. I haven't even met the doctor yet- the one who's gonna decide if I'm trans or not but I've met a psycologist last week through a video conversation. That was the first meeting (he said there's gonna be two), the second and probably last one is gonna be in the middle of march before I'm able to see the doctor. My nr 1 priority is to get a top surgery. I'm also thinking about T just for a short period to get deeper voice.
IM READING UR BOOK RN OMG
Not sure if you've done this before but I would love a video on your tattoos!
You're awesome, Alex. :)
Alex, can you make a video talking about HRT side-effects in the long run? I'm on T for almost a year now, and my dad keeps using the "it's bad for your health" argument to guilt-trip me intro stopping, and I want to have a basis to, like, really convince him that's actually good for me, if not organically at least mentally
Don't get me wrong, I am SO happy for you and proud!
I've been following you for 10-some years and your journey has always been incredibly inspiring to me. But I'm at a point in my life where I've grown so unhappy with myself. Seeing your videos back then as a 16 year old who just figured out who they were, I thought for sure that by now I would've been further on my own journey. Yet here I am. 10 years later and still pre-everything. Still in the closet.
I have come out to a few people. Some friends and my twin-sister. And it has helped a lot. I've had a few sessions with a gender therapist last year, but she said I couldn't start therapy there, because I'm still talking to a normal therapist. And I still need her. I've just gotten to a point where it's so painful to look in the mirror and still see the same face and the same body. Still having the same voice and being called by female pronouns and my birthname. I know my family will mostly be supportive. My friends as well, but I am stil so _terrified_ of coming out.
I'm just so tired of not being the real me.
Alex you are inspirational and so handsome! So glad I found your channel.
"...and handsome." Clearly you don't see many people then.
She's a woman. What are you doing calling her "handsome" for?
Great videos thank you for making them. Are you still making them? Would you be up for one where you talk about your mental & emotional changes? Do you have any difference in thinking patterns & focus? I watch lots of FTM videos & mostly people talk about the physical but not so much about the mental, besides feeling better.
I have felt like I was a boy since 3-4 years old, I stopped going to school because of puberty, like many I totally dropped out of life. But theres brain troubles I get too, before puberty I was completely taken by my hobbies & then after puberty I struggled to think/focus on anything and I am scatty, it always got worse running up to a monthly & I just felt like an alien had taken over my brain. I no longer have that hell as have blocked it with the mirena coil for over 10 years, but I have gotten older & my natural T has declined & I have gained fat which also increases oestrogen & lowers T, & once again feel like my brain is hijacked (I managed to feel myself for a few years inbetween when the coil was working its magic & I was underweight for fat on the BMI). All the physical dysphoria is just like everyone elses, its hell but it fits with the diagnosis.
What I am trying to find out is if my brain symptoms also fit with other FTMs or if I just have a crap brain? Its like my personality is still in there but I am trapped under this heavy fog where I am tired & depressed & dopy the whole time & I get in a muddle with things & have lost my clarity & passion, I feel so slow. I know depression can cause this too, but I do feel like its hormones, because at every stage my natural T levels have been higher my brain functions better, & as soon as my oestrogen is higher, I can't function & I just feel hidden & trapped in this heavy brain fog.
I don't know how cis females feel but maybe the brain differences means transmen or cis men with oestrogen can't function well because the brain structure is just not compatible with oestrogen? I don't know how much research has been done on the effects of hormones on difference brain types, but I do know that there are sex differences between the brains & that part is formed in the womb & the next at puberty when the sex hormones hit, & that trans brains on studies are consistent with the cis gender group they identify with, therefore the unwanted 'natural hormones would likely clash with the brains gender identity.
Sorry this is so long, I hope it makes sense. I am just really wanting some more insight into this as currently I have double dysphoria, the body shape making me feel its not my body, & the brain fog making me feel hijacked. I have had top surgery & liposuction to all the 'curves' & my body dysphoria has dropped ALOT since & I wear nicer clothes now & feel more physically comfortable & confident & normal, but my brain fog is getting worse with age & weight gain (I am in my 30s). I have never taken T, I am currently on the waiting list as well as saving to go privately (like I did with the surgery). Sorry for the essay!
Bro I’ve been watching you since before you started T. I remember using you as an example to try and convince my parents to let me start hormones before 18
I can't believe I started following you over 5 years ago
so happy for you!
Awwwww the hair(pete) on your chin was sooo cute
your beard is so fireeeee
We have an incredibly similar timeline for beard growing/hair loss. Around 2 to 3 years my beard REALLY started to grow in, and that's when the hair loss really started to accelerate too. I had a few more years where it was liveable but at some point I was so tired of being self-conscious about it that I just shaved it off. And I see in your most recent video you seem to have come to that point, too.
It's a bummer, but honestly I just tell myself it's something that often just comes with being a man. If I were cis I'd probably have been bald way earlier!
Neck muscles I think are your trapezius muscles? Or your scalenes? I wish I’d taken more pics right at the start of my medical transition but I just.. couldn’t. So your progress actually helps me see what’s going on with me.
This is such a sweet video
This takes me back to the days of the quest for the beard. I have no reason to be so invested in your journey as a cis lesbian but honestly seeing the emotional changes are just so wholesome. Those neck muscles are called Traps btw lol
Hey another cis lesbian ✊