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>hair thins out, you smell better, your skin gets paler and softer, you do get some fat redistribution
and with all of this, the vast majority of trannies are still clocky as fuck. it doesn't matter if you have softer skin and maybe better hair if your skeleton is built like the colossal titan, technology is just not there yet. you either start before/during puberty or it's completely over.
i'm 6'0" tall, anon. no matter how much i look like a woman, my height and skeleton will snitch on me. there is nothing sadder than trying to change nature and failing.
and even if i passed, i'd still be an "other". even if i magically managed to go stealth and nobody else knew, i would. i'd know until my death i'm a fake.

>like yes it sucks and i dont pass and i have boobs i have to hide but like what am i gonna do keep aging as a man? keep denying life to myself?
this is the difference between us. you're okay being clocky and getting meh results. i can't afford that. i can't accept trying to transition when it's clearly not meant for me. i'm too tall, i'm too old, i'm too weird for it to ever work out.
not everyone lives in portland or something. i need to choose between being a man or trooning and stealthing, there is no other option where i'm anything else and able to live a somewhat respectable life.

>inb4 just manmode forever
that just feels like delaying the inevitable. it's over. transitioning is a means to an end, you troon so you can pass and become a woman, at least as far as most of society is concerned. manmoding forever is like a caterpillar staying inside the cocoon forever.
if you can't pass, hrt is pointless.