#as someone who’s close with a handful of women open abt their exp with menopause

[just-a-little-radish]

As someone w pcos, fuck right off. I don’t take spiro for “gEnDeR afFiRmiNg feEwiNgS” I take it because without it I get extremely painful and irritating cystic acne, I’m chronically tired, and I start to lose my hair, plus a handful of other physically taxing affects. I take spironolactone to treat the symptoms of my autoimmune diseases.

Comparing treatment for people suffering symptoms of physical conditions, to people taking drugs/surgery to change they way they look is not only grossly inaccurate but wildly offensive.

TIL that hormone replacement therapy is used by older women when going through the menopause to ease symptoms. i learnt this from my mother who is a retired nurse who is now a medical advocate for older women and she's big mad about how hrt has been demonised the scary "trans treatment" when in her mind its a marvellous bit of modern medicine that can improve the lives of so many for whatever reasons they need it. more estrogen (or testosterone) for all!

Yup cis men and cis women are prescribed testosterone, estrogen, etc for a variety of reasons.