Question Can anyone give some advice, or at least link me to all the best posts for someone who wants to start traveling?

[idislikedeity]

Hi, so I admittedly find this site a bit daunting and have never had the easiest time navigating social platforms and such. I already found the gear page and stuff, and I have made a list of stuff to get and hopefully I can get enough money for stuff I'll need, will probably need to find stuff to sell, and hopefully not have too long stints at jobs seeing as I genuinely struggle with work (I'm dealing with a disabled job program which gives me a stipend that is less than minimum wage, but it is better than nothing). I guess I have a lot of questions I'd like answered.

First, this is specifically for other queer people who use HRT, but does anyone have any info on having access to HRT on the road? I want to figure out if this is a reasonable thing I could factor in while traveling. I don't know any specific DIY HRT projects around the area I currently live, and Idk how many people encounter on the road and stuff, so I want to know if anyone else has experience dealing with that stuff?

Second, would trainhopping be recommended for someone new to traveling nomadically in general, or should I wait to have more experience on the road before I consider dealing with that?

Third, how open to teaching newcomers are a lot of more experienced groups? I'm kinda worried about jumping into something where I don't belong or whatever. I mean, I'm currently living with my parents, and I only graduated high school earlier this year, and my parents aren't necessarily that bad, they just expect me to try getting a job or something to make money and stuff and I don't really work like that. I already can't sit still barely even getting into working in an office setting in the job program thingy that is supposed to "help" (or prey on disabled people as cheap labor, depending on your perspective). I never even had a job in high school despite everyone around me getting them, I was too stressed trying to deal with school itself, and I was always feeling like an outsider anyways, I really feel I just don't function in the way I'm expected to to the point where it prevents me from being able to live a "normal" life. I also hate disingenuonousness, and I see using the aesthetics of being "radical" but not actually living radically as an aspect of being disingenous that I just don't feel comfortable being.

I guess any other advice anyone could give would be helpful. Idk if this is the right place to post this, I just posted it here cause I live in the US and stuff, and it seemed to be the most relevant place to post this.
Thank you for any help :]

 

[81285]

I started by reading about the culture and history more than anything, the book section here is great and the owner of the site also wrote a great book
then the fastest way to learn is to do small steps, I did volunteering for more structure and support, an hour away from home, two, three, and so on
you always have a net to fall back on, a plan b, so it doesnt suck all the spirit out of you when things dont turn out as you expected - and that will happen eventually
having backups is necessary
a tent, a bedroll, water filter, so on, plenty of threads on gear here
the rest is experience

and you can also visit squats and different communities, to get a head start by absorbing knowledge and experience from others more experienced travellers

 

[ali]

It's a bit hard to search for HRT on this forum because you need to type four letters for the search to go through. I remembered some threads about it in the past, though, so i went back and tagged them for ya.

Check the tags:

• https://squattheplanet.com/tags/hrt/
• https://squattheplanet.com/tags/trans/
• https://squattheplanet.com/tags/transgender/

It's funny to look back at old posts here because you can see when popular terminology starting shifting toward trans from transgender, ftm, mtf etc.

Short version is everything is easier if you are legit. If you have existing prescriptions and/or a letter from a doc explaining your situation, life will be easier if you suddenly need to go to a hospital or get an emergency refill.