transcription: trans people: hormones have made me finally feel good about and at home in my body for the first time in my life. cis people: but arent you worried that might be irreversible?
transcription: trans people: hormones have made me finally feel good about and at home in my body for the first time in my life. cis people: but arent you worried that might be irreversible?
I’m more worry that it won’t make me feel good about and at home in my body. It would mean to lose the last hope.
Besides that, don’t you have to be for a considerable amount of time on HRT for it to be irreversible? I have no idea tbh
yeah i think the effects of HRT are partially reversible in the sense that some effects go back to how they were previously when you stop taking the hormones. stuff like skin getting coarse again and body hair growth intensifying when you end m-t-f pills. also fat redistribution. but the reverse is only partial, i.e. it doesn’t go back quite as much as you started out with.
like when you edit the shape of foam, and then stop, it partially bounces back, but only partially, it’s still visible that some pressure was applied to it. :)
Depends on the HRT. T is fairly fast acting, so things like vocal cord growth and activation of hair follicles could happen quickly. The latter can be fixed via laser hair removal though. Voice training can be used to compensate for the vocal cord growth, but voice training 😱
E, you’ll get some breast tissue fairly quickly, but unless like you are doing a physical examination with the intentional of finding such, it doesn’t really matter. Also, boys getting mastectomies for gynecomastia is an option, albeit I’d say anything requiring surgery to change is “permanent”.
The most immediate meaningful irreversible effect is getting peace from not being constantly poisoned by your own body brings. I didn’t know if I HRT was right for me (NB), but within a week I was pretty sure I would continue indefinitely and after getting the dosage fixed, I knew for sure I would never give it up easily. Before, I dissociated through life without really realizing it and without really knowing an alternative. Now that I know better is possible it would be hard to take that away.
Breast growth and infertility were the two main irreversible changes they warned me about. It took about a month before I got the sore nipples which is the first sign of active construction, and it was about 3 months before the growth was noticeable to anyone else. Stopping the HRT at that point would have zero to minimal permanent effects.
As far as infertility goes, its not guaranteed. It does stop semen and sperm production. Reverting the hormones will restart that, but there is a chance it doesn’t. Its wise to take precautions if maintaining fertility is important.
But cis hormones cause irreversible changes too. If your voice drops it cannot be undropped. If your beard follicles activate hormones cannot deactivate them. Irreversible effects can be managed, but not undone. You can voice train, you can get top surgery, you can get electrolosys.
Its very important to teach children about transition, and make sure they have access to medical care early on. Diagnose it early enough and save them from having to suffer through any of the wrong irreversible changes.
You’re right, it takes months to see any permanent physical changes