I learned something this week that I feel like I should have already known. One of those things to which I never really gave much thought, but once it crossed my mind I really started obsessing about it. It’s that men and women sit on the toilet differently. And I’ve been sitting like a man because I didn’t know any better.
Here’s the simple difference. Men drop their pants and underwear all the way to their ankles and sit withe their legs open. Not necessarily spread wide apart, but not close together either. Women only pull their pants down far enough to clear the toilet seat. In my extensive research, I’ve found almost all women seem to keep their waistband of their pants above their knees while on the toilet. Women’s knees tend to stay together on the toilet, largely because you can’t really spread them with your pants still mostly pulled up.
I’ve been making a conscious effort lately to sit on the toilet more like a girl.
In other news, I was talking to my therapist about boobs last week. We talk about boobs quite a bit actually, specifically about how much I wish I had some. I was saying how I feel inadequate when I go to the beach with my mother and sister. Both of them have DD cups, and I wear and A cup that is loose on me.
Then my therapist responded that those are good signs that I will develop good size breasts on hormones. She said starting hormones at a young age helps with the likelihood of decent breast development, and that transgirls that begin hormone therapy at my age ought to grow breasts about one cup size smaller than their mother.
I was excited to hear this, even though I had already read it online. Mostly I was excited because this was the very first time in therapy that she had ever mentioned hormones.
I told her that I was really interested in hormones and I wanted to start taking them. She responded that she was prepared to sign off on the treatment, but would prefer if we waited a few months. So now I have to wait, but at least I know it’s in my future.
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