JustPearlyThings - This Is What Trans Hormones Do To Men

In this episode, I sit down with a trans friend of mine to talk about his journey to detransitioning from male to female, his experience with testosterone replacement therapy, and how he came out as transgender. We talk about the trans community, the transphobic reaction to his decision to come out as trans, and what it was like being a trans activist in the trans space.

00:00:00.000 do the hormones do like even outside of the surgery like what do the hormones do to you

00:00:04.040 so i i mentioned the stuff about testosterone and poison that was the i was on something called an

00:00:13.820 anti-androgen um a gnrh anti-androgen blocker it's the same stuff that they give as puberty

00:00:20.740 blockers and to cancer patients and what that does is it stops your uh testes from

00:00:28.580 excreting more testosterone it basically sends a signal to your body to say you've got enough

00:00:34.120 testosterone in your body you don't need anymore but obviously you don't because it runs out

00:00:37.940 and then over a course of so many weeks because your blood replaces over a course of a matter of

00:00:44.740 weeks then eventually all the testosterone that's left just kind of filters out you have no more 0.94

00:00:49.800 getting produced that in itself i feel like drives people fucking mental not the oestrogen 0.95

00:00:57.500 high very high levels of oestrogen in a male can really send them loopy but that anti-androgen i 0.99

00:01:04.200 swear like up until keep mind i didn't need it after surgery because i had my testicles removed

00:01:09.780 and i don't think there's any accident that my biggest clarity of thought came after that was

00:01:16.660 like wearing off of my body because i didn't need it anymore and i think it it just it just changes

00:01:24.640 you're very like i'm not selling this as a very good way but if you look at a lot of the behavior

00:01:31.740 out there and the like in the trans space and out and about you can kind of see why some of these

00:01:36.680 people are like really like explosive like i can understand that i can understand their reaction i can

00:01:42.840 understand what it feels like to be that desperate not just because of the belief but because of the

00:01:47.400 hormones and stuff running through your body and the oestrogen just kind of muted everything it just

00:01:53.140 made us feel very passive um my sex drive was like killed after surgery anyway and

00:02:00.260 it was like long dead and i wasn't really that bothered because i've always been fairly it i'm gay

00:02:07.160 but i'm fairly asexual too do you know what i mean i'm not really that bothered um

00:02:13.340 how has how has this been with your because i'd imagine you had a bunch of trans friends before

00:02:20.620 you like um did huh oh no i did oh you did yeah but then as soon as you came out against this

00:02:28.160 they yeah yeah has that been hard yeah it was very tough it was very difficult um

00:02:37.180 some of it was expected uh i before i'd even detransitioned i wasn't very popular in the

00:02:44.700 trans community because i was a little bit of a i was a little bit based should i say i was a little

00:02:50.480 bit uh you know what i mean i was i wasn't taking that bullshit all the time and i did push back on a 0.79

00:02:56.640 few things and there's a lot of jealousy in there especially if you look the part way easier than

00:03:03.340 they do the the kind of hate you for that as well so i was a little bit about that but also i was a 0.91

00:03:08.540 bit of a cunt too to be perfectly honest um at times it definitely was uh but i was also you know 0.91

00:03:16.420 i wasn't that bad i wasn't the worst there was people who are did far worse things than i ever had 0.98

00:03:23.320 are just you know how it is in social groups that are very small and tight in it there's falling

00:03:28.920 outs and stuff like that well yeah yeah i had one friend that stuck with us through the beginning

00:03:35.280 course of detransition and then they had a lot of disagreements with how i approached this issue

00:03:45.180 uh and the way i did it for instance um speaking to right-wing commentators as they

00:03:53.060 would say um you know and i i for me i'll speak to if somebody invites me to talk somewhere i'll

00:04:01.320 take that invitation without really caring who they are and the reason is is it's a story if people 0.97

00:04:08.320 want to assign their own narrative to it if you want to clip this and put some clickbaity shit on 0.93

00:04:13.900 you go for it i don't care i just want the story out there i really don't care i just want people to 0.93

00:04:19.900 realize that what's happening and i want others and it's working and they're not working that others

00:04:25.620 who are harmed to come forward and talk about it and it's happening and that's all i want people to

00:04:31.820 realize and hopefully put an end to the unethical surgeries uh the untested ones especially these

00:04:40.460 like the nullification stuff and the whole like the nullification stuff and the whole like

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JustPearlyThings - July 29, 2023

This Is What Trans Hormones Do To Men

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