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  • Estiar@sh.itjust.workstoTransfem@lemmy.blahaj.zonewigs
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    12 days ago

    The really high quality wigs are worth it imo. I have a synthetic one and it has been holding up really well. Depending on if you have a doctor or not, you might even be able to get it paid for by insurance or a healthcare system or whatnot.

    Synthetic wigs are a bit cheaper but the natural human hair ones can be styled with irons and washed with normal shampoo. I have a specific shampoo for synthetic wigs but I might be wrong about if I actually need it or not.

    I can wear mine everyday and it’s not uncomfortable. I have yet to experience it over the summer though and I don’t expect it to be super comfortable with the sweat and my growing natural hair underneath too.

    I’ve been very successful with my wig. It’s incredible because otherwise I wouldn’t have socially transitioned for another year.






  • Well I missed the gender part.

    Gender is likewise a social construct. Every human, male or female could theoretically develop into either phenotype regardless of physical characteristics that they eventually do develop. All of that is thrown out the window though when you examine our roles in society. We could have the choice of not distinguishing between us at all. Our thoughts and actions on gender have changed substantially over the past few hundred years. Between clothes and fashion and family structures, how we look at gender changes.

    1. I self-identify as a woman. I am transgender too, but some transgender women don’t actually identify as transgender if they transitioned really young. Society at large would not treat these people as “transgender women” and merely women

    2. How society treats me is a bit more up in the air though. Many people do recognize me as a woman. I have the same social role as a single woman generally has. I wear women’s clothes, I have women’s hobbies, I talk, I act, and other people treat me like a woman. I’ve even experienced misogyny, as people will talk to my male colleagues and ignore me completely. However, some people tend to just stay away from me and pretend I don’t exist. They’d say that they were gay for liking me. But this is because I’m part of a different minority, being transgender rather than because I am a woman

    Transgender women are indeed women. They will experience the same joys and the same struggles as women do. But of course they’re still transgender and they will experience the same struggles as every transgender person does.