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🎉🏳️‍⚧️Today marks my 8th year using testosterone as life-saving gender affirmation! In Feb2017, a few months before starting T, I had one of my 1st moments of gender euphoria, of Trans JOY. Nearly 8 years later, I looked in the mirror and saw myself & felt myself more than I ever had before, pictured right. That person I felt like in the left picture, that person I looked like when I saw my post-op chest for the first time, and that person who had many years of figuring out WHO I am in MY body all *collided*. 

📸Enjoy the remaining pics of ⚧️TRANS JOY 🏳️‍⚧️spanning throughout my whole life—After all, I’ve been on T for only 8 of my 33.5 years of being TRANS, 8 years of more tangibly actualizing who I’ve always been & was meant to become. Because in this national and global climate that just keep getting more nightmarish, who says we self-made men, women, and nonbinary queeros can’t make ⚡️JOY, too? Joy, as gorgeous and messy as it may be…JOY is our RESISTANCE.✊🏻🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸

Here is my post from Early 2017; my 2025 self learned much from my pre-T self, so I hope you can, too: 

“Putting myself out there more than I ever have on here...Not easy, but hopefully helpful to me and to whomever needs it: 
My mood was EXCITEMENT when I took this photo...therapist just told me I’m ready to tell my dad about the “real” me, it was almost the weekend, finally fixed my glasses, had meaningful friend time, and things were looking up. Then, the dysphoria set in. I felt MY smile, MY muscles, MY cheekbones, MY everything, my REAL self...but seeing the mascara still stuck on my eyes, the feminine cheekbones and upper body, the feminine this and that, and it brought me down immediately. 
I’m sharing this photo because I felt ME in every way at the time I took it, including that immense EXCITEMENT that I struggle to hold on tight to that defines much of my personality at its best moments. If I remember THAT while still seeing the woman that doesn’t exist, I know I can GROW, in spite of the features that have always kept me trapped...And perhaps, because of them.”
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We are excited to announce the first Secret Santa Gift Exchange hosted by the HMS Harmony Discord and Facebook! (Check out our "Secret Santa" Highlight for direct links to the sign up form!)

Whether you are an artist or a writer, you have from now until November 25th to sign up for the event. By November 30th, you should be contacted by a mod with your secret santa details. All secret santa gifts should be delivered by December 30th at the latest. (If you want to give your gift before that date, you can!)

 🎁 Please fill out the following form and submit it in time if you would like to participate: 
https://docs.google.com/forms/u/6/d/e/1FAIpQLSfEZ2i7WQHBjxtkx1lJG7oFJfWE2DKdPQ-187vDxUDVCw9Udw/viewform
(this link is also in the "Secret Santa" Highlight!)

🎁 Remember that these are gifts for someone else, so please try to put in effort that reflects that. 

🎁 If you are submitting a gift fic:

1. The fic must be at least 1.5k words. 
2. The fic must be posted under the HMS Harmony Secret Santa AO3 collection: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/HMS_Harmony_Secret_Santa
3. Please use the AO3 gifting tool to select your secret santa's AO3 username as the "gift recipient" on AO3. 

🎁 If you are submitting a gift fanart:

1. The fanart must be a completed work. 
2. Please tag us @ hms_harmony if you're posting on Instagram or @ hms-harmony-discord if you're posting on Tumblr! 
3. If you have an AO3 account, you can upload the gift image to AO3 as an alternative platform and use the Gifting tool to select your secret santa as the gift recipient. 

Please do NOT sign up if you are uncertain if you can actually participate. We do NOT want any last minute drop outs that leave anyone without a gift.

All gifts must center around Harry and Hermione. 

Thank you to @hastyhand for letting us use her wonderful art. 

We're so excited to see your work! 🎅
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