[234/365] tranitizer

[cosmolinguist]

It occurs to me that I know cute names for transfemme hormones (tittyskittles, anti-cistamines, another one I'm forgetting right now??) but I do not know any for the kind I am taking!

I assume this is because of my excessive elderliness and refusal to partake of transmasc culture online by refusing to go anywhere that it happens (youtube, reddit, tumblr, etc).

For those who don't know, my choices were a regular but rare injection or a gel you put on your skin every day. I have panic attacks at needles (and I'll need to do enough of those anyway because this also involves regular blood tests) so the gel was the obvious choice for me.

I asked on Mastodon this morning and got two answers of categories: things people might already say and shitposty answers from my friends.

• proboyotics [I suppose estrogen would be anti-boyotics then!]
• "beard ketchup" when someone had the gel that came in little sachets like ketchup sometimes does at restaurants... This person's partner who was explaining this to me now explained they have the pump bottle and described it as "like hand sanitizer... 'tranitizer'?" They didn't like that, but I do!
• tranitizer!
• masc arpone
• lad-ger
• guynness [like Guinness!]
• nut shots [this feels more like an injection one than gel, but it's still funny]

Comments

[otter]

Silly :)

[barakta]

These are brilliant and hilarious.

[gender_euphoric]

I call it boy butter, but only when joking

[azurelunatic]

the NOISES i made when reading this!!!1

[cosmolinguist]

Hee. <3

[silveradept]

Those are good and punny names for the gel.

[sfred]

I thought overnight of "face masc" (obv doesn't only affect one's face, but)

[cosmolinguist]

I love this.

[sfred]

:-D

[sfred]

I do refer to the gel container as my gonads, but usually only at home.

(I use gel because I had enough of up-and-down hormones with the factory-installed setup. I like stability, thanks.)

[cosmolinguist]

Oh wow I hadn't even thought about that! I hope I get to enjoy stability too (having also had none of those so far...).

[cosmicjellyfish]

These are all so good! I especially love pro/antiboyotics.

Due to my happy history with my mother's cheesecake

[jesse_the_k]

I favor masc arpone. These are all lovely!