I would be fascinated to talk to this person. As a straight cis male dude guy, this is just all day, every day. Iâd be like hearing someone describe the sun whoâs never been outside before in the whole life.
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henfredemars@infosec.pub â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠agoI have a sample size of one trans friend who started taking male hormones and felt it completely overwhelming. He was absolutely astounded by how intense it was for months on end until he felt he built up some mental fortitude.
Clearly, itâs not an ideal comparison, and personal experiences are highly individual but I found their experience interesting.
stoicmaverick@lemmy.world â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
pyre@lemmy.world â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
thanks for sharing; itâs wildly interesting! heâs one of a small number of people who can speak for two different modes of physical/hormonal makeup.
shneancy@lemmy.world â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
as another trans guy i can confirm, T took my libido from âmid, horny sometimesâ to âI GET HORNY EVERY DAY AND IF I DONâT FIX IT I LITERALLY CANNOT FOCUSâ, in the span of like, no time, literally started with the first or injection
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Welcome to the party dude, this starts at age 12ish and (so far) never ends.
shneancy@lemmy.world â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
oh ya dw, iâve been on T for 7 years now, i have it mostly under control. apart from the times when it just doesnât seem to be going away, body parts already sore, brain still says horny, those days areâ something
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Oh I know those days all too well lol!
Though ime there is no âcontrol,â just âI will face my horny, I will permit it to pass over me and through me, and when it has gone past I will turn my inner eye to see itâs path, where the horny has gone there will be nothing, only I will remainâ lol. So lucky you lmao!
pyre@lemmy.world â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
welcome to the club my man. donât get me wrong it can be annoying but Iâd rather have a never ending boner for the rest of days than have one period. Iâm cis so Iâve never experienced it myself but i have enough women friends (and a wife) to know i wouldnât want it for a day.
shneancy@lemmy.world â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
lmao same, dysphoria was the strongest during periods i hated them with a burning passion. T just made them stop, which is amazing.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Iâve recently had to start hormone replacement. Apparently my T levels were so low I was getting clinically depressed. So I went from half the minimum testosterone levels to slightly above the maximum. Now, Iâve always had a weirdly high libido, and I was afraid Iâd have to turn into a recluse. In fact, the opposite happened. I had barely any libido left. Iâd jerk off just to test if things even worked, and everything was fine, but it was like I was in constant post-nut clarity. I hated it. I didnât feel myself anymore, and having focus and clarity while all this shit is happening in the world⌠Like, the hormones did help with the depression a little bit, but it was offset by the otherness I am feeling.
Anyway, this rambling is my way to relate, in a way. You went through puberty of sorts, and Iâm going through a reverse one. I am having to get to know myself again, unsure as to what is happening to my body, and dealing with the occasional zit.
BTW, Instead of injecting T, the doctor attempted (successfully!) to kickstart my internal production with a drug that stimulates FSH production, which, in XY equipped hardware, boosts testosterone production. AMAB bodies normally deal with excess T by converting it to estrogen. To avoid that, another drug that blocked it was added. I found it curious how the same messengers are used by both sexes, sometimes with the same outcome, sometimes with completely different outcomes.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Thatâs one of the reasons Iâm worried about transitioning. Iâm already horny more frequently and intensely than any dude Iâve ever dated. Adding more testosterone to the mix sounds like a bad idea
shneancy@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
perhaps youâre just manifesting the T horny already :D
but for real, if youâre sure of being trans and want most of the effects T brings - iâd say do it. iâm not thrilled about my thinning hair, receding hairline, or the acne v2 (this time harder to get rid of), but the bursts of self-hate cause by dysphoria are completely gone, and that makes being so much easier
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Coukd that just be, like, feeling comfier with your body and general brain soup?
shneancy@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
feeling comfier is certainly making it easier to be horny, but hormones do 90% of the legwork here
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Iâm not so much arguing origin of effect as mechanism of action.