Is hormone (replacement) therapy actually a long-term cure of any kind for anything, or is it just a fantastic stimulant and short-term mood enhancer?
How is dressing in pretty clothes any more or less effective with or without estrogen in your system?
Does anyone anywhere even know, or is it just accepted at this point because there's no other better solution being proposed?
>>7719706
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Qg_L-zgXc
>>7719706
>fantastic stimulant and short-term mood enhancer
What? It gives physical changes bruh. That's about it.
>>7719706
Gender dysphoria is medically defined as distress caused by an incongruence between one's experienced/expressed gender and one's assigned gender.
Hormones, clothing, etc., all reduce that incongruence and therefore reduce the distress.
>>7719706
It isn't that helpful for the short term desu. My life was a living hell between the 3rd to 9th months. Then I finally started to see some pretty big changes and even started seeing a girl in the mirror. That's when it got better (and keeps getting better each day).
Before I was a depressed lump that didn't do much, but now I feel much better and am capable of accomplishing many things. There were no real short-term benefits to me taking HRT, it wasn't until I'd been on it for a while that I started feeling okay. It seems that I gradually feel better and better the more my body changes. I used to look in the mirror and feel wrong and ill, but now when I do I see "me" and smile.
When you are truly trans you have a physical problem and you take your medicine to help heal and make it better.
Also, not all of us want to dress in "pretty" clothes but women generally want to wear women's clothing. HRT allowed me to wear the clothing I wanted to. I used always wear the same jeans and tshirts as a guy, because I had no interest in clothes. It is freeing to be able to be yourself.
>>7719706
It's like any recreational drug that feels great at first, and then becomes normal, and then you have to keep taking it to feel normal, and if anyone tries to take it away from you you throw a shit fit.
It's definitely psychologically addictive.
>>7719809
Are ladies going through menopause also throwing a shit fit?
>>7719782
That's interesting. I'm in my 6th month now and I feel slightly better. I usually hear that you start seeing yourself differently after around a year like you said, I'm sort hyped for that.
>>7719706
It is not always a cure, but it does help relieve gender dysphoria even on the long term. For some people the results are good enough that it can be said to be a cure. Some it helps very little.