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 REGULATEDÂ
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