Taking female hormones

[Rantsalot]

It is believed that those who take female hormones may notice:

• increased breast size
• feminization of body shape
• darkening of nipples
• less acne
• more feminine complexion
• slower growth of facial hair
• slower progression of baldness
• reduced chance of heart attack
• lowered risk of prostate cancer

It is also believed they probably will:

• increase their risk of breast cancer
• increase the chance of blood clots which can be fatal
• increase the chance of liver or gall bladder disease or tumors
• decrease the size of their testicles
• lower their interest in sex
• alter their mood or personality in unpredictable ways

Now it is quite obvious that there are those here and elsewhere that take hormones for assistance in transitioning. As to how much and how often is of no consequence to me as its not really my business to begin with but what really boggles me is the statement that relates to something in the above list.

" She is moody because she is on / she takes hormones "

I know of people who take hormones and not once have I heard or witnessed any kind of mood shift. That is not too say that it may or may not happen and yet every now and then the above sentence still pops up in conversation whether it is here or offline in some distant club somewhere.

We all have our own natural hormones which help make us who we are. Hormones are involved in just about every biological process ranging from immunization, reproduction, growth and so on.


Just how valid is saying taking hormones effects behavior? Does anyone have any idea as to what it is in taking female hormones that would alter a persons personality per se.

[tslisaparadise]

It is believed that those who take female hormones may notice:

• increased breast size
• feminization of body shape
• darkening of nipples
• less acne
• more feminine complexion
• slower growth of facial hair
• slower progression of baldness
• reduced chance of heart attack
• lowered risk of prostate cancer

It is also believed they probably will:

• increase their risk of breast cancer
• increase the chance of blood clots which can be fatal
• increase the chance of liver or gall bladder disease or tumors
• decrease the size of their testicles
• lower their interest in sex
• alter their mood or personality in unpredictable ways

Now it is quite obvious that there are those here and elsewhere that take hormones for assistance in transitioning. As to how much and how often is of no consequence to me as its not really my business to begin with but what really boggles me is the statement that relates to something in the above list.

" She is moody because she is on / she takes hormones "

I know of people who take hormones and not once have I heard or witnessed any kind of mood shift. That is not too say that it may or may not happen and yet every now and then the above sentence still pops up in conversation whether it is here or offline in some distant club somewhere.

We all have our own natural hormones which help make us who we are. Hormones are involved in just about every biological process ranging from immunization, reproduction, growth and so on.


Just how valid is saying taking hormones effects behavior? Does anyone have any idea as to what it is in taking female hormones that would alter a persons personality per se.

hmmmm,horomones prescibed by a doctor and have there levels regulated will and i repeat will keep your head level your highs and lows on an even keel,however if someone takes more then the dose calls for yes you will be a basket case without a doubt,ive been on then for what 12 years now so im thinkin i know alittle bit about it.for somebody to use there horomones as an out for bad behavior well thats silly.horomones trick your brain into thinkin your a female but they actually only work with a tblocker that blocks testosarone you cant do one without the other period.ive tried about 6 or 7 different horomones and tblockers untill i finally got it where i was comfortable now heres the kicker the older you are after puberty the longer it takes to work so im thinkin when im in my 80s ill be ok lol

[Tonia Lee]

Some chicks take a fuck ton of hormones and they start acting mental and "moody".
I don't. I'm down to earth, stable and I only take maybe a little bit of HRT to get me through the day.

[Barbie_Swallows]

When i started taking hormones (estrogen & anti-testosterone blockers) for about 2 years straight till September 2OO6. Let me just say it was one of the most horrible experiences in my fucking life, no joke. I thought i was able to handle all the fucking side effects, but boy was i wrong, it control u and ur thoughts. Almost like a monster taking over and possessing ur soul. I would always cry, get emotional, i would gain weight and get fat, i had no sex drive, my balls would shrink and get small, i had no sperms, i was shooting blanks, i had no desire to look at gay porn anymore on my computer, i was sleeping all day, i wanted to eat all day, small things would set me off and i'd start crying for no reason, i'd be cold inside the house and outside during the winter & summer, more so if i was drinking a cold water bottle, my whole body would freeze up to the pointg i had to fucking take a hot bath, lol.



I would start fights for no reason and get super sensitive. I was spending $300 per month on hormones pills and on top of that i would have to visit my doctor every month so they can check my blood to make sure i didn't get any problems while taking hormones. The only thing it did to me was i grew small tits, and i felt like a true real woman on her fucking period 365 days a year, lol. Anyways i was crying so much everyday, i was like fuck it, it's time to throw these pills away down the toilet and away they went, i flushed it good. And i said to myself, don't ever take hormones again! After 1 month of me not taking those pills anymore, i started getting erections and i finally shot my sperms, wow. I was still emotional and sensitive to the point that made me cry, but not as much like when i was on the hormones 24/7. Right now it's 2O1O, and i feel better then ever, without hormones. Those pills will mess u up badly, no joke. I've heard stories of transsexuals commiting suicide's or become super fucked up crazy, because of taking the pills.



My advice for future t-girls that wanna start transitioning themselves from male to female. If u like ur dick, i highly suggest u not to take hormones, just get breast implants. And for those that don't like there dick and soon wanna get a pussy, then take the hormones, but if u experience mood swings very badly ask ur doctor to give u a lower dose of estrogen pills. And mind u the other reason why i stopped taking those pills was because it was effecting my online business being an online webcam stripper. I wasn't able to get my dick hard and therefore my clients would hang up on me during the $4.99/per minute show on my webcam & phone. Another reason why i decided to stop taking hormones was because, those pills have a high chance of killing u, like possible cancer & bloodcluts and u can die. I'd rather stay sane & normal and get high once in a while, rather then take hormones and act fucked up daily, lol. Anyways i hope u enjoyed my side of the story on taking estrogen hormone pills.


B@rbie Swallows

[Horizon1]

I'd rather stay sane & normal

Wait, you actually call yourself sane and normal?

[Barbie_Swallows]

I found a video of Alexis on youtube before she started taking the hormones injections or pills. She looked more like a drag queen back then, just like how we all started out, including me too. But wow sure has changed alot since then cause right now she is totally beautiful and she makes such a very passable woman right now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR2tH...eature=related

[Tonia Lee]

I can't get surgery and even if I could, I would need so much. FFS would be important because I just couldn't pass at all unless I was on my HRT. The hormones work for me. They did change me, my body and my face even.
The only thing is, I have this option and this option alone.
So, you bitches have it good. I've stated that numerous times. I wish to fucking God I was an escort with nice tits and way passable but I'm in poverty, under a doctors care but have no therapist and even my doctor is not an endo.
What happens to me is I get prescribed HRT to transition but it's really based on my mental well being. Before hormones I was suicidal.
I took hormones because I had to. Because it was hormones or a blade to my wrist. I chose titty skittles.
After a year and a half maybe of HRT, I am so fucking crazy from it...
I can't even tell you just how fucked up it is. I risk getting bakered if I do.
My gender dysphoria is so bad that it renders me useless and unable to function.
Here is a brief run down of last night. This is ONE night in my life. I suffer these things every night, every moment.
I did everything in my power to look female prior to working. I was pleased with what I saw for the most part. I looked at myself and agreed that I looked passable. It took me one hour.
I get in my piece of shit car and off I go.
The first hour of work, I had a co-worker mock me.
I had a new co-worker look at me after being called "he" by somebody who makes it a point to do it EVERY CHANCE SHE GETS.
He cocks his head to the side with a disgusted look.
Two of his friends join him to work. They are dying laughing, all of them.
I can't break down in my work place so I venture outside.
I fall to the ground and cry. Not just like some sobby bullshit weep weep...
I grind my teeth until they hurt, claw my face and arms, tears that just will not stop while I rock back and forth in the cold.
I manage to get up and go to work.
I labor for hours in a state of dream like awareness. I have thoughts of very.... dark things.
I reflect as I work and come to the conclusion that I am in a fact a pig. That my body and face and dick is not even human. This why the call me "it". Must be, why would they say that?
I break down in my isle. A man walks in, so I leave. I go to lunch.
I can't eat and have no money at all.
It's cold and all I do is smoke these hand rolled shit smokes. They are disgusting and the only time I have a real one is when I work overtime for a pack of FUCKING SMOKES.
I lay down and cry. After some time I get up to fix my hair and apply lipstick and shit. I use my visor mirror. I see a pig. I see a manly, disgusting fucking pig. A sick horrid reflection so I hit it.
I take my fist and just wail at it. The first strike broke it, shattering it. I have c*^s and bl^%d all over my knuckles.
I don't even bother cleaning. I just sit there and cry.
I realize that I need to go to the bathroom but I can't be seen so I use my hood and pull it over my face.
I walk around with a hood over my head a bit low over my face for another seven hours. My eyes are blood red and nobody is aware of what is wrong.
This is like.. every fucking day, night..

So, I'm stuck on hormones. Even worse, I'm desperate. I'll just leave it at that because I need to be careful about what I say.
I just... do what I need to do.
No chance of FFS, SRS, implants...
Just hormones and upkeep. No pretty, no life, nothing, just everything based on HRT and the chance that I will be presentable. I'm an ugly bitch with an ugly mind and it was not the HRT that did it. It was public expectations.
I was happy.
When somebody calls me a boy..that happen to you girls? LOL no. ok. Well, when somebody calls me that, it feels like I been shot through the head.
Sometimes, I run into a bathroom and puke. I really throw up.
So...
Cherish your life.
Understand that?
Cherish your LIFE.

[Ray]

After reading many of Barbie's posts, I would say she is still suffering from the effects of the hormones. LOL

[Tonia Lee]

After reading many of Barbie's posts, I would say she is still suffering from the effects of the hormones. LOL

She's just crazy. Mones would just highlight her lunacy. I envy this chick.
There is a ring of truth in everything she says.
It's just often difficult to relate to her life.

[Horizon1]

When somebody calls me a boy..that happen to you girls? LOL no. ok. Well, when somebody calls me that, it feels like I been shot through the head.
Sometimes, I run into a bathroom and puke. I really throw up.

=)

[Barbie_Swallows]

Barbie, if you have not been on HRT, how is that you pass?
I'm not talking trivial things.. tits or hair.
I'm referring to your body and face.
Your hips, face and everything else.
How?

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Well some people are just lucky & got naturally feminie features. Cause i remember when i was a boy, people still assumed i was a girl, and some just wasn't sure cause i looked androgenous. I think for some people, when u think like a true woman, ur body will just naturally behave like a girl, with body & face features. Here's a pic of me when i was 18 years old back in the summer of 2OOO. So check it out and tell me what u think of the b4 and after of my transformation.

And mind u i only took 2 years of hormones ($300/month), i've also had over 50 lazer hair removal sessions ($16o/per session), grew my hair long, dyed it blonde, my eyebrows are obvious over plugged & painted on with makeup.

I got breast implants size 600'cc saline for ($5,700) by dr. marc dupere & i got my lips done twice with restyline injections ($850) at lefontaine, & everything else is real. I've had people tell me if i had my nose done, or my adams apple done, or my forhead, or other feminie surgeries, but it's not true. And i have nothing to hide or lie about, cause i'm pretty an honest straight forward & direct person. That is probaly the main reason why so many guys on this site fear me cause i'm just too much of a rebel cause of my views on these guys that like shemales! lol.

[Barbie_Swallows]

I can't get surgery and even if I could, I would need so much. FFS would be important because I just couldn't pass at all unless I was on my HRT. The hormones work for me. They did change me, my body and my face even.
The only thing is, I have this option and this option alone.
So, you bitches have it good. I've stated that numerous times. I wish to fucking God I was an escort with nice tits and way passable but I'm in poverty, under a doctors care but have no therapist and even my doctor is not an endo.
What happens to me is I get prescribed HRT to transition but it's really based on my mental well being. Before hormones I was suicidal.
I took hormones because I had to. Because it was hormones or a blade to my wrist. I chose titty skittles.
After a year and a half maybe of HRT, I am so fucking crazy from it...
I can't even tell you just how fucked up it is. I risk getting bakered if I do.
My gender dysphoria is so bad that it renders me useless and unable to function.
Here is a brief run down of last night. This is ONE night in my life. I suffer these things every night, every moment.
I did everything in my power to look female prior to working. I was pleased with what I saw for the most part. I looked at myself and agreed that I looked passable. It took me one hour.
I get in my piece of shit car and off I go.
The first hour of work, I had a co-worker mock me.
I had a new co-worker look at me after being called "he" by somebody who makes it a point to do it EVERY CHANCE SHE GETS.
He cocks his head to the side with a disgusted look.
Two of his friends join him to work. They are dying laughing, all of them.
I can't break down in my work place so I venture outside.
I fall to the ground and cry. Not just like some sobby bullshit weep weep...
I grind my teeth until they hurt, claw my face and arms, tears that just will not stop while I rock back and forth in the cold.
I manage to get up and go to work.
I labor for hours in a state of dream like awareness. I have thoughts of very.... dark things.
I reflect as I work and come to the conclusion that I am in a fact a pig. That my body and face and dick is not even human. This why the call me "it". Must be, why would they say that?
I break down in my isle. A man walks in, so I leave. I go to lunch.
I can't eat and have no money at all.
It's cold and all I do is smoke these hand rolled shit smokes. They are disgusting and the only time I have a real one is when I work overtime for a pack of FUCKING SMOKES.
I lay down and cry. After some time I get up to fix my hair and apply lipstick and shit. I use my visor mirror. I see a pig. I see a manly, disgusting fucking pig. A sick horrid reflection so I hit it.
I take my fist and just wail at it. The first strike broke it, shattering it. I have c*^s and bl^%d all over my knuckles.
I don't even bother cleaning. I just sit there and cry.
I realize that I need to go to the bathroom but I can't be seen so I use my hood and pull it over my face.
I walk around with a hood over my head a bit low over my face for another seven hours. My eyes are blood red and nobody is aware of what is wrong.
This is like.. every fucking day, night..

So, I'm stuck on hormones. Even worse, I'm desperate. I'll just leave it at that because I need to be careful about what I say.
I just... do what I need to do.
No chance of FFS, SRS, implants...
Just hormones and upkeep. No pretty, no life, nothing, just everything based on HRT and the chance that I will be presentable. I'm an ugly bitch with an ugly mind and it was not the HRT that did it. It was public expectations.
I was happy.
When somebody calls me a boy..that happen to you girls? LOL no. ok. Well, when somebody calls me that, it feels like I been shot through the head.
Sometimes, I run into a bathroom and puke. I really throw up.
So...
Cherish your life.
Understand that?
Cherish your LIFE.

Well u just have to accept yourself weather ur passable or unpassable. I used to be paranoid in my younger days if people thought i was a real girl or just a dude pretending to be a girl. I guess out of all these years i'm alot more passable right now then let's say 5 years ago when i did a photo shoot for a porn site called shemaleyum.com, which is down below, u can check out of how much i've changed alot. We all start out looking very unpassable, kinda like drag queens, but then we get better at it, and we become passable and have society treats us alot less negative. But some trannys that had the full change, and got there pussy done, such as Amanda Lepore, well she dosen't seem to wanna look like a passable woman.

To me she looks like a drag queen with alot of plastic surgeries. Even her voice gives it away that it's a man. But i'm not hating on her, i think she's great, she's just doing her own thing, and not following the other transgender crowd by being all conservitive & trying to be passable so she can blend in. It's funny, u say i'm passable, but some people could still tell i'm really a guy. But since i've tricked so many straight guys out in public, like as bus stops & subway trains, i guess i am passable, since majority of them have no clue that i'm a tranny! Anyways my advice for u is you'll be alot happier if u just accept yourself being passable or non-passable.

http://www.tranny-girls.com/gal/shem...ie/index6.html

[thebigjuggler]

damn you are so brutally honest, it's unsettling, you truly accept who you are.... that's just wonderful....

[Rantsalot]

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You know, on reading this thread multiple times another comment came up and that is "being passable." Now this doesn't really relate to hormones but it is also something that has bugged me for a while too. You wanna look and feel your best? Fine. Do it any way you want but rather than "being passable'" doesn't it make more sense to just try and blend in with society in general?

There are tonnes of people out there who don't have the appearance like that of a Hollywood star yet no one cares as they look just like everyone else.

I mean if you're the type to WANT and stick out and beg for attention ok but when it comes to transitioning for men and women there are those who just want to lead the same life they had before the changing process so why get all riled up about "being passable?"

[tslisaparadise]

You know. On reading this thread multiple times another comment came up. That is "being passable." Now this doesn't really relate to hormones but it is also something that has bugged me for a while too. You wanna look and feel your best. Fine. Do it any way you want but rather than "being passable'" doesn't it make more sense to just try and blend in with society in general?

there are tonnes of people out there don't have the appearance like that of a Hollywood star yet no one cares as they look just like everyone else.

I mean if you're the type to WANT and stick out and beg for attention ok but when it comes to transitioning for men and women there are those who just want to lead the same life they had before the changing process so why get all riled up about "being passable?"

ya i agree rants being passable is pretty over rated,i seek acceptance from my family only and the others well i dont really care to be honest.i have zero problems because im very comfortable in my own skin and others pick up on that i think,i spend almost everyday at the golf club and i can tell you for a fact that im very well liked and all the guys wanna play with me and the ones i pass walking down the fairways there isnt a day go by where everyone says hi lisa hows your game today?now that may not meen anything to you guys but for me it feels so awesome to fit in and be so loved by everyone and afterall isnt that really our goal to begin with?