#because i wasn't about to deal with that person holding my hrt hostage

[riverofrainbows]

This is extremely important!!!

Getting on my little soap box for a bit:

(context: I'm a trans man on testosterone) My endocrinologist told me my fucking liver is "female". That is both laughable and dangerous.

People are misinformed by either lack of knowledge or brain clouded by ideology, but it does not work in the way that different chromosomes cause people to have entirely different versions of organs. People don't have pink or blue livers that are ontologically different.

Every single cell with dna contains all the information (except for the 3 or so genes on the y chromosome that not all people have), and to spell it out: all the information for both an estrogen and testosterone driven environment. It gets influenced by what hormones are swimming around in the blood and activating different genes.

The vast majority of organs in the human body are exactly the same/analogous. So the only sex difference is created by hormones.

So it's very dangerous to claim that hormones don't change more than optical aspects, and that sex as an immutable trait is not changed. In fact, hormones are a large part of what makes the category of sex, and responsible for most of what is noticeable of it.

So you acquire the health risks of the people with your current hormone dominance. And this is more influential the longer you take hrt. It's dangerous to ignore this.

And in the case of my endocrinologist, it's dangerous to only compare your blood tests to the ranges of your birth sex because of "pink girl liver delusion", because they are out of range every time. And that doesn't tell you anything about whether this is actually relevant, unless you compare it to the range of the sex that you hormonally are. And if this isn't done, you might miss important early signs of something that needs treatment.

And you will become another statistic, and a reason to cite why transgender hrt is dangerous and unhealthy. When it isn't. People just need to interact with reality, instead of the "immutable biological sex" fantasy.

It is genuinely a worrying trend for trans people, on HRT, to be resigning to the "I'll never biologically be (their gender)" after having it be beat into them by cis society.

There are obvious mental health and gender problems associated with this.

But another aspect is that has real, horrific medical consequences. If this continues, we might start seeing trans women get later stage breast cancer bc they were turned away or didn't pursue it due to misinformation, and didn't screen appropriately. We're gonna see trans men having cardiovascular health problems, because they were treated as women for heart health and didn't fight back.

HRT is extremely safe on net. But it gives you the normal health problems of having a physiology dominated by that hormone. It also removes many, many other health problems. Those need to be taken into account when giving people medical care.