Tato et al.
Something that suddenly occurred to me last night while answering MtF questions on reddit had to do with the puzzle as to why HRT works for hair but only for some. This is but conjecture but I have excellent anecdotal reasons to think that this could be true.
For you guys with full heads of hair, I would think that estrogen would help some. For the really young, guys it should work but as I was encouraging people to get beard removal yesterday, it came to me.
Restoration might be impossible with an active male beard, shaved or not, because essentially that is many square inches of nothing but DHT-laden skin and follicles. So my first question is: How could somebody possibly facially femininze with a full beard? Is the DHT just going to migrate around like it does with dermatitis. For me, only beard removal ended dermatitis. Only with beard removal after largely done, did I see facial feminization. Now some of this might just be temporally correlated by when I did what but my hair only began to improve after my beard was removed.
This might account for why many MtF's seem to regrow hair effortlessly and why others regrow zilch. People are MtF, regardless of beard removal but in terms of passing, it's just not going to happen for anyone say over 26 without beard removal.
@bridgeburn actually got semi-beard removal from extreme HRT but that is really rare and he was younger.
So any older guys struggling, we should all work through this and swap notes because the full beard must simply negate facial feminization above the neck. This would account for why I had a chick body only from the neck down for several years but only saw facial, skin disease relief and hair improvement after my beard was gone!
I think that this could be key. Usually I encourage people to remove their beards so they have a chance of passing but this has been evolving in my mind for a while since Marky mentioned FtM's balding immediately after beginning to grow rogaine beards. Those beard are bringing up DHT for the first time in these XX males. I think Marky's passing remark which really got me thinking could be a key to all of this all of a sudden and it would explain possibly so much with the variant results by the guys trying to follow
@bridgeburn. We are learning now that for MtF's any DHT at all could cause re-masculinization even after SRS. I think DHT and it's ability to synthesize itself from beard follicles might be the key to all of this.
Pls, imagine being able to get beard removal and then not needing HRT anymore without all that DHT. Duta might be all you need then or just low-dose. I harp constantly on the connection between beards and hair loss for whites/Semites and I really think that this could be at least, a key component of hair salvation for the young guys and restoration for the rest of us.
Janey