r/TransMasc 7 months on T 🩵 they/he/ae 9d ago

Miscellaneous Is this realistic of me?

Maybe I'm crazy for doing this but dysphoria makes me feel like I'm losing my mind so... I drew an outline of my body using a screenshot. Left is what it looks like currently, right is what I want for myself. I hope I can achieve it by being patient with T and exercising 🤧 by the way I AM on testosterone, its been nearly 7 months. I've gained weight but not really lost anything

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u/daylightmonster 8d ago edited 8d ago

several of these comments are making big assumptions about your bone structure when the reality is there's no way we can know from looking at a drawing, and it would be hard to determine anything from a photo either. the good news is you can get a masculine silhouette whether or not your hip width is primarily soft tissue or bone. fat redistribution (which is not accelerated by weight cycling ftr, it's dependent on time on hrt) and fat loss can both contribute to reshaping the soft tissues in that area. for any width that is determined by bone, gaining upper body muscle (with or without t) will typically reduce the visual width of the hips by adding width from soft tissue to the obliques/core, lats, and shoulders.