Enough

“Trans People Have Loads of Hormones And Are Crazy”

I think maybe

Sad, cis becky might have

Suggested this, or something?

I hope not, I have heard it

From friends, from allies, from

Just about everyone.

Undeniably trans people

Take hormones, but the thing

About Hormone Replacement Therapy

Is that it

Replaces

Something.

Most all people have

Estrogen and Testosterone

Most people have more than one or the other

That is because

The work in tandem, they balance!

You can’t have tons of both, you can have

Disordered hormones, like with PCOS where

You have naturally high testosterone and

Suppressed estrogen which creates a

Unique set of gifts, or you can have

Klinefelter’s syndrome, where you are XXY

And have less testosterone than a XY human,

But they have a little more estrogen

Which makes other things happen–

These people don’t have more hormones

Than XX or XY, they just have a

Different disbursement!

The real deal is you have

A set amount of hormones, and if you

Try to increase one of them too much–

It works the opposite way you’d intend.

Take for example:

Bodybuilders!

Powerlifters, crossfitters, footballers

Men who dope with testosterone and HGH for sport(s)

These guys

If they use too much

They develop little saggy tits

Called gynecomastia

“The surgeons treated 1,574 bodybuilders for gynecomastia from 1980 to 2013. Of those 1,073 were followed up for a period of 1 to 5 years. Only 2% of the men were candidates for liposuction; the rest had too much unwanted breast tissue and needed surgery.”

*is it a good article? No, but I didn’t want to name guys I know instead.

SO MANY MUSCLE DUDES HAVE LIL’ TITTIES AND FAT BELLIES

NONE OF THEM ARE PRINCESS NOKIA

anyway

Why do they get that?

Because when you push

Insane amounts of male hormones into an

Already functioning, male-enough body

It turns into estrogen–

And feminizes muscle bro steve!

–We all know a steve, I kept it lowercase to show

he’s not a real steve–

So anyway

I’ve started HRT

And while I will admit

That I’ve had some pretty crazy moments

And have been driving my girlfriend insane

I think that is mostly all the mental illness

That’s been with me since way before any of this came

I think, when I was on an extremely low dose

I was the most uncomfortable

But now that I’m on a bit more T

I’m much less estrogeny

My periods never come

I don’t menstruate at all and

My skin is thick and strong and

My hands are pulverizing just about everything they can

I enjoy being a man, on testosterone

A physical element that helps confirm

What I already knew I was, what I already am

I don’t need to transition to show you who I am

I need to transition to see the real me, I don’t care

If anyone ever sees the frickin guy

It’s not about anyone else, it’s not about a trend

It’s not about hormones or even

What’s in my pants

It’s about how I function best

In the body God gave me

I need testosterone, I don’t need

Your shame, or your labels, and I don’t want

To be a man. I just want to be!

That should be enough for you

It’s enough for me.

Oh–sorry–

Trans people are not

Any more or less crazy than not-trans people

They also don’t have

Any more-or-less hormones than your average

Pregnant woman, but only

For like, 6 months. Then everything

Evens out

And then

They are in fact

ON MORE CLOSELY REGULATED 

AND MONITORED HORMONE LEVELS

THAN CIS PEOPLE BY A LANDSLIDE

I LITERALLY ONLY HAVE AS MUCH TESTOSTERONE

AS MY DOCTOR WILL GIVE ME

If I had “tons of hormones”

I’d have to be cheating, or doing something illegal

But I’m not

I’m just trying to feel comfortable

In the skin God gave me

Your God, the one who supposedly

Made all of us, and yet

I can’t find his initials

Anywhere on me