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To HRT, or not to HRT, that is the question (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/transmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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  1. Type: Post. Title: "23942". Author: "Autumn / I promise the message isn’t actually offensive / she/her / hips would fix me" ("u/Clean-Specialist-676"). Publisher: ["Reddit">"countwithchickenlady" ("r/countwithchickenlady")]. Published: 2025-11-22T21:03:24.647Z. Accessed: 2025-12-28T04:43Z. URI: https://www.reddit.com/r/countwithchickenlady/comments/1p444vd/23942/.
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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's that the objection to the choice of "hormone replacement therapy" for gender affirming care is malarkey. Yeah, the term for those medications started for people that have a deficiency in a given hormone, typically as an age related issue. But that doesn't negate it when used for replacing one variety of hormone for another.

In other words, the argument that it isn't replacement therapy when the levels of existing hormones are normative for a person with a specific type of gonad that are fully functional misses the point that it's still HRT, just a slightly different semantic expression of it.

[–] applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think maybe you misunderstood. The post isn't a semantic argument, it's highlighting the misconception that hormonal body changes stop after puberty so there's no cost to waiting to start taking hormones. This is false because the effects of hormones on your body continue to progress throughout your life, though at a slower rate over time. So waiting will mean trans people will have more secondary sex characteristics to overcome whenever they do start a hormonal transition. Waiting too long also makes some changes that we'd really like impossible. For example my hips will likely never widen the way I want them to because I didn't start hormones early enough in life. For trans masc people their boobs will never go away on their own, so their only option is surgery once they have tits. So waiting doesn't mean nothing is happening, it just means the default is happening, which for trans people is not desirable by definition.

[–] knexcar@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

How late did you start HRT?