• TraumaDumpling
    ·
    1 year ago

    i basically feel the same, i don't really have anything physical i want to change about my body, but i hate how much my decisions are constrained by the gendered expectations of others. i mean i guess i wouldn't mind having tits and shaving more but i'm terrified of needles, paranoid about cardiovascular health problems, and i pass out or come close whenever i bleed or get injections

    • Dessa [she/her]
      ·
      1 year ago

      Hormones come in pills and patches too, and you're likely to lower your cardiovascular risk by taking female hormones. Your risks of blood clots raise to the average level of cis women, and your much more likely odds of heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure drop tonthat of a cis woman's.

      Your greatest health risk in taking hormones is men