Oh, so E stands for estrogen. Thank you for clarifying that and giving this pretty insightful comment. I'm still pretty ignorant of the trans experience as a whole. I always worry I'm going to be one of those privileged people who says some wildly transphobic shit and then tries to brush it off by saying "but I have trans friends!"

I'm always grateful to people who are willing to sit down and expand my mind on an experience I will never have. I was born white, straight, cis, and male to a middle class couple. Had my life gone a little differently, I might have wound up just as redneck and authoritarian as some of the chuds I went to high school with. Looking back, I can see now that I had some pretty shockingly sexist opinions before a female friend in college sat me down and very patiently explained why I was full of shit. It's good to get context and be reminded that there's more to the world than my comfortably white, male point of view.

(I thought of E as ecstasy at first, which probably says more about me than anything else.)