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