Hey! Happy pride everyone! Who wants to know how much it costs to become a cute anime girl?
I'm coming up on two years since I started my transition, and I have SRS scheduled for just over the anniversary mark. Just for fun I tallied up everything I've spent so far on medical transition. This includes estimates for the next few months, up to and including surgery. All prices are in Japanese Yen.
| Item | Cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| HRT (DIY) | 58,180 | Estrogen gel |
| GID diagnosis | 22,670 | Required for prescription HRT |
| HRT (prescription) | 353,280 | |
| Laser hair removal | 65,880 | 6 sessions, face |
| Name change | 800 | I'm a Japanese citizen so I had to apply to the courts here |
| Electrolysis | 1,499,080 | ~12 hrs prep for SRS and ~12 hrs face |
| SRS approval | 48,990 | Not fun |
| SRS consult | 33,860 | inc. estimates for blood work |
| SRS | 2,090,000 | PIV; Japanese hospital |
| Total | 4,172,740 |
I think I'm pretty much done with electrolysis, although I expect there will be a long tail tidying up. None of this is covered by insurance (with a long and stupid footnote I can go into another time), but it is at least tax deductible. Going forward, HRT will cost about ¥8,000 per month, reduced by 70% once I can change my legal gender and can start using insurance.
Notably this does not include:
- travel costs (substantial in my case since I live way out in the countryside)
- clothes
- cosmetics
- hitting up other girls in lesbian bars
Of course how much it costs depends a lot on what route you choose to take, so this is very much only a guideline! Let me know if you have any questions <3
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa awful, how trans friendly area are?(where live)
cost of transition in thirdworld dictatorship
oestrogel 0.6mg/g - $26/month(1 bottle/month)
progesterone 100mg - $7/month
useless diagnosis - $55 once in private clinic(free for luckshits in psych wards, but there almost impossible now but veryyy possible to get schizo spectrum or idk)
orchiectomy - around $3000 inside country plus 200$ maybe travel to city(using fictional diagnosises in surgery documentation)
name change - idk didnt get it but is should bee just small fees for new passport but more pain is other docs
gender change - sorry putler said no
bloodtest - varies but last time for hormones was $46 (E2, T, freeT, LH/FSH, DHT, prolactine, SHBG, albumin) usually cheaoer but my brainworms decided to test useless things such as freeT(overpaid as hell since i tried to calculate with albumin/shbg, total T and it was veeeeryy similar number what i got )
plus more
home internet - $11 500mbit ~~for party approved websites~~ private vps hosting which hopefully not blocked now(hetzner blocked as well digiocean and some others) sooo +4 euro for unlimited internet access with full speed
rent - uwaaaa own flat here, but utilities is veryyy unfun atleast possible go to debt
idk wa more but it gets more expensive, if turn off TV zombiebox(idk i dont have TV)
want get out but - no money
to get money and education sadly i too disabled AuDHD, is basically impossible for me any highpaid job, lowpaids are usually awful but there possible to manage for peaceful lowpaid
get uni/college - impossible for my brain plus costs are awful
hope only for luck and parents
huuuh pain