This Is What Trans Hormones Do To Men
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Summary
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.
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do the hormones do like even outside of the surgery like what do the hormones do to you
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so i i mentioned the stuff about testosterone and poison that was the i was on something called an
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anti-androgen um a gnrh anti-androgen blocker it's the same stuff that they give as puberty
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blockers and to cancer patients and what that does is it stops your uh testes from
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excreting more testosterone it basically sends a signal to your body to say you've got enough
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testosterone in your body you don't need anymore but obviously you don't because it runs out
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and then over a course of so many weeks because your blood replaces over a course of a matter of
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weeks then eventually all the testosterone that's left just kind of filters out you have no more
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getting produced that in itself i feel like drives people fucking mental not the oestrogen
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high very high levels of oestrogen in a male can really send them loopy but that anti-androgen i
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swear like up until keep mind i didn't need it after surgery because i had my testicles removed
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and i don't think there's any accident that my biggest clarity of thought came after that was
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like wearing off of my body because i didn't need it anymore and i think it it just it just changes
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you're very like i'm not selling this as a very good way but if you look at a lot of the behavior
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out there and the like in the trans space and out and about you can kind of see why some of these
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people are like really like explosive like i can understand that i can understand their reaction i can
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understand what it feels like to be that desperate not just because of the belief but because of the
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hormones and stuff running through your body and the oestrogen just kind of muted everything it just
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made us feel very passive um my sex drive was like killed after surgery anyway and
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it was like long dead and i wasn't really that bothered because i've always been fairly it i'm gay
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but i'm fairly asexual too do you know what i mean i'm not really that bothered um
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how has how has this been with your because i'd imagine you had a bunch of trans friends before
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you like um did huh oh no i did oh you did yeah but then as soon as you came out against this
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they yeah yeah has that been hard yeah it was very tough it was very difficult um
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some of it was expected uh i before i'd even detransitioned i wasn't very popular in the
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trans community because i was a little bit of a i was a little bit based should i say i was a little
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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
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few things and there's a lot of jealousy in there especially if you look the part way easier than
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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
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bit of a cunt too to be perfectly honest um at times it definitely was uh but i was also you know
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i wasn't that bad i wasn't the worst there was people who are did far worse things than i ever had
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are just you know how it is in social groups that are very small and tight in it there's falling
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outs and stuff like that well yeah yeah i had one friend that stuck with us through the beginning
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course of detransition and then they had a lot of disagreements with how i approached this issue
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uh and the way i did it for instance um speaking to right-wing commentators as they
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would say um you know and i i for me i'll speak to if somebody invites me to talk somewhere i'll
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take that invitation without really caring who they are and the reason is is it's a story if people
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want to assign their own narrative to it if you want to clip this and put some clickbaity shit on
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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
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realize that what's happening and i want others and it's working and they're not working that others
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who are harmed to come forward and talk about it and it's happening and that's all i want people to
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realize and hopefully put an end to the unethical surgeries uh the untested ones especially these
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like the nullification stuff and the whole like the nullification stuff and the whole like