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This offers some speculative potential. Just regular HRT regimens but with smaller doses probably won't do what you want (levels of E low enough to not eventually result in breasts and such in the absence of testosterone probably will leave you with bone density issues). But if you look at that page, focus on the options that may inhibit breast development, since that is the biggest, most noticeable/irreversible physical change. Few to none of these approaches are well studied of course, but it's something you could potentially try with a very friendly informed consent doctor or DIY, after doing your own research.
It's possible you'd get some or all of the effects you want just by suppressing testosterone. Seems like something like an anti-androgen to suppress testosterone along with an SERM to partly mitigate the loss of bone density caused by low estrogen, could be a viable path to that. Maybe buserelin and raloxifene? Cyproterone acetate and bicalutamide might be more traditional anti-androgen options, but it seems like buserelin is better (more effective, less side effects) if you can get it?
You also can just take regular HRT for a short period of time and see what you think. As far as I'm aware, there's not really much of any chance of permanent physical changes that just sneak up on you in weeks, or even a couple months. Breast development is slow (but mostly permanent), most other things are also relatively slow (and mostly reversible). Infertility is kind of the wildcard that nobody wants to speculate on, but seems to usually be reversible in the case of anti-androgens, but not so much high dose estrogens (this opinion also taken from transfemscience)
Not to say result is certain or any route perfectly safe, but you can experiment if you feel comfortable. My view is: It's your body, own it!
At 2 months, I had the start of what seems like technically permanent effects (very clear change in texture under the skin on one side), but like you'd have to be feeling for it and my Dr started me with relatively high starter dose for pills (4mg/day + 100mg/day spiro I think?). If you didn't want further growth, you could just stop there though. If you don't want even that change, you should probably assume you'd be far faster than average.
fair yeah, caution level should depend on one's tolerance for such stuff. But if its just texture it might well go away or become less clear if HRT was discontinued