My partner has been transitioning for about 6 years now. Within the first year and a half, his transition was going well, he was satisfied with how his body was changing. As of recently, he feels like his transition has stagnated.

His facial hair grows in patchy, his bottom growth he says is underwhelming, his sex drive is almost nothing, and he just feels very trapped in a loop of stopping his testosterone to see if anything happens, getting depressed off his testosterone, starting it again and being happy, then to being depressed that it's not working.

I love him very much and I just want as much advice as possible to see if there is anything we can do as a couple to try and help with his transition. He's just not confident enough in how his body is currently and feels like maybe his body is stopping the testosterone from working the way it should be.

He used to use the testosterone shots but he doesn't like needles and they were starting to cause scarring. So he switched to the gel form and he says that he doesn't feel like that its working at all.