Chrissy Gann enjoys the benefits bestowed by estradiol. She is happy with her breasts and general feminization. There are other effects though that don’t thrill her as much. Today she blogs about her hormone use and tosses in some opinions on other areas of trans life.
Ask Amanita is the spot on TGForum where you can ask questions and get answers from a therapist specializing in transgender issues. Today Amanita is asked about the concerns a trans woman has concerning hormones. Should she start taking hormones? She would love to have the positive effects of hormones but worries about the negative ones, and, if she doesn’t take them how will she be seen by her trans friends? Read Amanita’s answer today and send your questions to her.
After a long sojourn in California Amanda is back on the East Coast. She stopped in her home town in Western Pennsylvania and then went on to Baltimore where she has lodgings with a friend and drives for Lyft. While she was in California she felt that the area she was in was beautiful but there was something wrong. She had anxiety attacks that were crippling. She felt that it might help to return to the east. Now she is in Baltimore and while things have improved she is still subject to anxiety. She wonders if California was only partly to blame for her condition and if perhaps it is her estrogen that is the culprit.
Lovely things sometimes are encouraged an coaxed along with the application of substances that aren’t pretty. Complicated processes are encouraged and catalyzed with additives most would see as crude or even nasty. Today Sabrina Symington points out one of those elements you wouldn’t believe had any use, let alone would help to bering beautiful flowers to bloom.
On behalf of a trans friend who wanted to begin transition The Artist D! began to make inquiries in her town about where to go for hormone therapy and eventual gender confirmation surgery. Believing that her city was one of the bigger, more progressive areas in the USA D expected things to proceed fairly quickly in the search for information. Apparently their expectations were too high. It seems The Artist D!’s “big city” is not as well informed about transgender issues as they thought. Which leaves D wondering what trans people in really remote small towns do for medical care.
Dana Bevan has been reading about the origins of the Prenatal Testosterone Theory of Being Transgender. That’s the theory that says you become trans due to different levels of testosterone exposure while you’re still in the womb. She finds the theory has roots in eugenics and “therapies” to “cure” homosexuality. The theory has been discredited but that doesn’t keep some people from still pushing for hormone therapy to “fix” gender and sexuality.
Since no one has any idea of why transgendered people exist, other than we are born that way, there are theories that circulate. One of them is that while in the womb a fetus is subjected to “baths” of hormones and too much of one or too little of another gives the child masculine or feminine gender mapping in their brain. The hormone theory is based on research that you may find shocking, and Dr. Dana Bevan says it is just plain wrong.
