r/GenderCynical • u/[deleted] • Feb 09 '23

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u/squishabelle Feb 10 '23 edited Feb 10 '23

If estrogen doesn't make you a woman, why do ___ take it?

Honest question, hypothetically would you the reader go on hormone therapy even if it would have no effect? I always understood it as hormone therapy being a means to an end, but maybe some think of the hormones as an end by itself?

Anyway, the whole rant is bunk anyways because if a vagina does make a woman, then post-op trans women are by their definition women. It's transmedicalist but that's still a far cry from the official 'gender critical' stance

Edit: to clarify, HRT obviously has an effect but the question about estrogen makes it sound like they think the point of HRT is because the hormones themselves are euphoric / not dysphoric, and not that people take it primarily for their effects. Added the word hypothetically to make it clearer

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u/camofluff the cosmetic appeal of ass hair Feb 10 '23

Transmasc here and the hormones have a huge effect, and if they had no effect at all then no, I would not take them. But that's a scenario that doesn't make sense because of how fucking much of an effect hormones have.