Boku ga Watashi ni Naru Tame ni - Vol. 1 Ch. 8 - Episode 8

[cezyou]

I don't think she's drawn herself that differently from how she looks irl, though stylization of the kind involved in manga always makes it hard to tell.

thanks for translating/scanlating/typesetting/etc. to provide this, it's very different from what most people translate so it's a good thing you've done.

 

[kii-chan]

@justforthelulz
@raven_freak
@cezyou

Thank you all for reading it! I'm just glad other people seem to like it as much as I do 😊

 

[jaderobin]

Wait, she gets a shot once a month? that can't possibly be enough. I don't think I've read of an estrogen injection that is not almost completely out of your system by 2 weeks.

 

[kii-chan]

@jaderobin Maybe that scene took place around the middle of the month or something? The raws say 来月 (next month), not １ヶ月 (1 month of time), so it's possible that "next month" is two weeks away. I really don't know enough about the general practices for HRT in Japan to say that they don't just do it monthly though or at what concentrations they typically prescribe.

 

[Kochi3]

Thank you!

 

[tacotiiger]

Ahh, this was quite a ride!
As a transmasc, I’ve always been super interested in how other people like me transition (despite… me probably only going to the extent of needing a binder and maybe getting on testosterone) and it’s really reassuring to me to know that other trans people can thrive
Thank you so much for translating this, Kii-chan!!! :]

 

[Kampfarsch]

@gomichandesu I cant find any pictures. You sure you guys arent just roasting the fuck out of the k-on voice actress that shows up?

 

[kii-chan]

@Kampfarsch There are not too many pictures of Hirasawa-sensei floating around the net from what I've seen. She was recently in a documentary series though, and she looks much better in that than she does in any of the pictures of her I've found, since those photos were all taken much earlier in her transition.

 

[Redrot]

Thanks for translating this! 😊

 

[JohnJRenns]

absolutely beautiful. funny, informational, heartwrenching, but most of all beautiful. i'm an AMAB trans nonbinary person with no intentions of getting surgery, and this only made me more appreciate the struggles our trans MTF sisters go through. thank you to @kii-chan for the translation work!

 

[Tiniuc]

I've learned how to do my own shots, but mine are once a week.

@jaderobin she probably gets a solid-type injection that dissolves over time.

 

[darkness848758]

My kokoro becomes atatakai history 10/10 i hope Yunna-san be happy till the last day an have Many and many yearts and become a cute gramma :3

 

[UnvalidUserName]

To the people saying she is not as cute... Hard disagree, she does draw her face in a different framing that her actual face but she is quite pretty irl.

Also my only complaint about this chapter is that she didn't go and say those words of encouragement to the black haired woman instead of keeping them to herself.

 

[friendly]

Wahhhh, what a sweet story. I totally understand the frustration with finding a closer place... I used to have to travel about that far to get t shots before I switched to gel.

Thank you very much for this translation <3

 

[meowkoto]

@jaderobin Maybe that scene took place around the middle of the month or something? The raws say 来月 (next month), not １ヶ月 (1 month of time), so it's possible that "next month" is two weeks away. I really don't know enough about the general practices for HRT in Japan to say that they don't just do it monthly though or at what concentrations they typically prescribe.

With great sadness I have to report that she is probably getting underdosed, I suspect that they are using a regimen similar to the one in "Alteration of ACTH and Cortisol Levels After Estradiol Valerate Treatment in a Male Subject With Gender Dysphoria: A Case Report" - where they give her 10mg EV every 3 weeks. (EV half life is like 4-5 days) probably to simulate the levels that the average cis female would go through (where you have a single big bump once a month and during the rest of the month you have nothing).
Given that she is starting HRT after SRS, the horrible gatekeeping that she went though, and the multiple reports that I heard from japanese trans girls that are being told to take premarin by boomer doctors I don't have high expectations.
It is possible to take estrogen less often, by using implants (~6m-1y?), EUn (~every 2 weeks), or Polyestradiol phosphate (~monthly) but all of these methods are quite rare.