I’m transgender and I’m taking hormone replacement therapy with the assistance of a doctor at a transgender health clinic.
I wonder if experimentally doing this is reversible. Feels like Banks's Culture. Could be interesting to try, to get a feel for the differences in perspective GP reports.
It’s largely reversible in the first six months or so. Generally breast growth is not reversible and for some people that takes a while to start but for some it begins to happen sooner. You could try it for a couple of months and stop if you feel tender nipples, which is a sign of breast growth activity. Though my biggest changes have come a year in to the hormones due to the way they ramp things up over time. I was taking 2mg E per day at the start and now I’m taking 8mg E and 200mg progesterone (which helps suppress testosterone), so my experience now is much stronger than it was a few months in.
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing your story and participating in the discussion. I looked some of these things up with a search engine, but do not know what to trust. Regarding progesterone I saw a few places assert that it increases testosterone (example link below), but it did not discuss the mixed case with E(strogen) you mention.
Some doctor experimented by dosing themselves with progesterone, and found that after a few days it increased their libido significantly, but is completely reversible otherwise.
Depending on method of administration, changes occur sooner or later. A common one is "monotherapy" with only estrogen injections in oils which get released over time.
I am taking it they are transitioning. I have had very similar experiences as part of this process.