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Yes, blockers would be incredibly helpful for you. Blockers are given to pubescent kids and teens. They are not given to prepubescent children.

This is more of a general resource dump, but I hope it helps!

The book The Transgender Child by Stephanie Brill and Rachel Pepper is your new bible, seriously. (Yes, it talks about teens, not just younger kids.) Check out Stephanie Brill's new book The Transgender Teen, too. There's also a new book out for Trans teens and their families, called Where's MY Book? by Linda Gromko, MD. I haven't read it yet, but it looks well worth a look. All three of these books will help you (and your parents) understand about blockers, as well as lots and lots of other helpful stuff.

Check out http://t-vox.org/ and http://camparanutiq.org/ . You'd love Camp Aranuti'q.

Watch this great video too. It's about Trans kids and it's really good.

Your patents should run, not walk, to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tyfa_talk/ and join it. It's a wonderful parents-only group specifically for parents of Trans and gender-questioning kids who are 18 and under. There's a lot more to it than "you should support your kid". There's lots for them there, even if they think they're already supportive. And it's as important for them to be talking to other parents of Trans kids as it is for you to be talking to other Trans people. On Facebook, they can join these great groups for parents of Trans and gender-expansive kids: here and here. And here on Reddit, they can check out /r/cisparenttranskid.

Trans Youth Family Allies, Gender Spectrum (and their fantastic conference), and the Trans Health conference, among other resources, will help your whole family a lot.

I don't know whereabouts you are, but the nice folks at the Gender Development clinic at Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago, the Gender Management Services (GeMS) clinic at Boston Children's Hospital, The Center for Trans Youth Health and Development at Los Angeles Children's Hospital, the Genecis clinic at Children's Medical Center Dallas, the gender clinic at Seattle Children's Hospital, BC Children's Hospital in Vancouver, and/or the Trans youth clinic at SickKids in Toronto can help your family connect with more providers and support networks in your area for Trans children and their families, even if you're not near any of those clinics. They do a lot of networking with groups and providers across North America and around the world.

An electric shaver is quick and easy, however it will not give you a close shave.
I used to use Gillette fusion, they worked quite well. I recently switched to a double edge razor and it shaves so easy & so close I will never go back. I'm using this handle paired up with these blades. Works amazing for me with the added bonus of being much more cost effective, that's nice because I shave so much of my body. I would recommend it to anyone. I've seen people be weary of these being more difficult/dangerous but really it is no different from cartridges.

Try wandering over to /r/WickedEdge for a little more info and/or google DE (double edge) shaving.

Body hair, especially facial hair is a huge source of dysphoria and using this is the first time I've gotten a shave close enough I really deem it acceptable.

One big suggestion, whenever I "let things go" for a little bit I find knocking down the bulk of hair with beard trimmers then shaving makes a huge huge difference in how easy things go.

I've never waxed before or anything but I really hope to get rid of the stubble from body hair and hopefully get smooth legs. Any time I shave it will look decent for like a day then I get terrible razor burns no matter how careful I am. It would be awesome to have a properly smooth body.

This is the one I am planning to get since it is so highly rated.

The Silk-epil 9 is on a great sale at Amazon today: https://www.amazon.com/Braun-Silk-%C3%A9pil-Epilator-Electric-Removal/dp/B00TI5ZMZQ/ref=lp_17428413011_1_1_s_it?s=beauty&ie=UTF8&qid=1524495878&sr=1-1

Hair conditioner is one of the easiest things that you would already have in your bathroom. What I personally do to shave is take a tub bath with a moisturizing foaming bath product and that provides good lubrication so that shaving cream is not needed.

SillyBrony, I love your story and I relate in so many ways. Thank you for sharing. I'm sure that everyone on this subReddit can relate in some way. Make sure that when you experience hurdles to your transition, that you come to us for help. It sounds like you've got a lot of internalized transphobia. It takes time and effort to leave behind that emotional ball and chain, and you have to fight against rising gender dysphoria. Many of us have been through that and we have strategies to share with you.

As for me, I got sick of waiting months and months for a shrink to give me permission for the drugs I need. I got sick of talking about my feelings about my penis with total strangers who know nothing about transgender. I got sick of having to justify myself and my history. So I educated myself on the facts and then DIY'ed. Spiro has fewer side effects than most of the anti anxiety drugs and my anxiety plummeted after spiro. Taking my health into my own hands saved me. I've finally found a "gender specialist," but I'm still waiting for the doctors to do their job of writing a prescription.

You say you've read all the literature, but it sounds like you haven't yet read Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, Serano 2007, or you'd know you're not a pervert.

Our mass media consumer culture objectifies women, turns us into sexual objects. For many trans women who are repressed or in denial, sexual expression becomes synonymous with gender expression. We end up expressing our femininity as sexuality, as our society has taught us. After realizing we are trans, the sexual aspect of cross dressing usually goes away and it becomes normalized. Wearing women's clothing is no longer cross dressing, it's just our regular clothing.

You're not a pervert and you're not in the wrong body. You're a woman with some masculine body features which can be changed. Remember to be patient with yourself. Getting your body to catch up with your brain isn't easy.

Also, I have tons of citations if you want to read more. Are you familiar with Milton Diamond's work?

It's a young adult book but Parrotfish is pretty decent, about a young trans boy.

Feeling the Adams Apple is basically just a short cut to figure out where your larynx, the sound producing voice box, sits at the moment. Have you come across the Big Dog Small Dog exercise? That exercise can be used to get a feel for moving the larynx around. What you do is repeatedly exhale like a panting dog and than modulate the sound of your breath, pant like a big, heavy dog and your larynx goes down, pant like a tiny dog and your larynx goes up.

Once you got use to how it feels to have your larynx up you can introduce sound, then words, then speech and build up the necessary stamina and muscle memory.

There is also the quick and dirty method of swallowing and trying to keep the larynx at the peek of its movement, but it's not recommend because it can introduce unwanted tension into the whole process, which could be damaging in the long run.


If you haven't checked it out yet, there is a sub for voice training /r/transvoice, though its mainly used to get feedback

Zhea from Trans Voice Lessons on Youtube does a good job on explaining the mechanics of voices and sex in voices, which is good to know because high pitch might only be a part of the puzzle for the voice you are trying to achieve.

The Voice Book for Trans and Non-Binary People can give you a good starting point for tackling voice training on your own. It's not all exercises though, a large part of the book is about steps to apply the trained voice in everyday life.

Here is the desktop version of your link

https://www.amazon.com/Transitions-Heart-Struggle-Acceptance-Transgender/dp/1573447889

it's happened before so not that surprising, especially given how transgender people are over represented in the military.