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submitted 6 hours ago by FermiComics to c/mtf

One of the most basic facts about biology we have known for decades is that a woman's estrogen levels are supposed to go up and down quite significantly during the course of her cycle. A cycle that starts around the same time as Puberty and which ends during menopause.

It makes no sense to me that in spite this being common knowledge doctors and even fellow trans people will parrot the idea that you can just average a woman's cycle out and as long as you stay around that average (often far below average) you'll be fine.

To me this comes from the transphobic idea that trans women and cis women are these fundamentally different creatures who respond to estrogen very definitely.

I didn't test this intentional at first but "luckily" Hrt isnt a thing in my country (trans people as far as the medical system is concerned don't exist) so I've been forced to DIY. As a result of fumbling around trying to figure out my doses without really checking levels I came to realize multiple things.

My sex drive changes depending on my dose. High doses meant for the week my libido would be very high low doses meant the opposite.

Where I felt changes (my skin stretching from fat redistribution) changed depending on dosage. Typically a lower dose meant more chest development while a higher dose meant I felt more stretching in my hips)

Emotional changes where either more present or less present depending levels

After doing a bit o research I found that all these things are natural things the majority of women go through during their cycle.

The trans people who completely lose their ability to have a libido are likely just on a dose which represents a low for them and since they constantly stay at a low they don't experience what their natural libido is supposed to be.

And on the flip side the trans people who become hyper sexual have the reverse issue. They are constantly at a level which represents a "high" for them meaning they never get a break from it and are also robbed of what a natural libido is supposed to feel like.

I'm tired of people trying to claim at x dose you should experience changes as if looking feminine is the only function of estrogen in the human body and as if "average levels" Don't already look way different from person to person.

Trans women are normal women and shouldn't be robbed of as natural of a hormone system as possible. Our current system is working backwards from the idea that trans women are just men who "want" To look like women when that's not true.

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[-] will_steal_your_username 10 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

That only works if you are also blocking testosterone in some way as the lows won't be enough for the E to suppress T on its own

[-] isleepinahammock 1 points 2 hours ago

True. Simulating a cycle is only something you want to do while suppressing T through blockers or from being post orchi/srs.

I've been meaning to try simulating a cycle. But T isn't a problem for me. Well, it is, but it's actually too low. I'm post srs, and my T levels are below cis female levels. I take a tiny bit or dilute testosterone to bring my levels back up into the female range.

[-] birdwing 5 points 4 hours ago

I presume the blocking T requirement is no longer necessary if one has had orchiectomy (or further surgery that also involves orchiectomy)?

[-] will_steal_your_username 5 points 4 hours ago

That is correct

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