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If you look at Websites of women who have transitioned over a year or more and they show you a timeline of the effects they have experienced on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) where there are significant changes in their face, it's a good bet they neglect to say one thing they had in their transition.

And that is facial surgery. Hormone replacement therapy will change the body body significantly, most notably to add (not rearrange the existing) fat where the individual gains 10-20 lbs and often more 25-50 lbs to the chest, abdomen, hips and legs, meaning all over the body.

It's the result of the effect of the change in metabolism to add fat, turn muscle into fat and develop both hips and breasts. And it will change the fat on the face. But it won't change the underlying bone and structure of the face.

And this is where you see photos of their face during their transition on HRT where it's obvious their facial features, eg. hairline, eyebrows, nose, eyes, cheeks, chin, neck, throat, are clearly different. That's not HRT, that's almost always surgery, and sometimes good makeup.

Some will admit or talk about their facial surgery, but most won't implying it's all HRT. Sorry, HRT doesn't and won't make the changes you often see in the face where it's the underlying structure of the face.

So don't believe you can achieve the same as them for yourself, unless of course, you have the checkbook they have. Cheer what they've accomplished, but take how they did it with a measure of question if it's real and true, or not the whole story about their transition.

Because in the end with transition and HRT, its' the old adage, everyone's mileage varys.