Will one pill by itself do anything? I thought it was more of a prolonged course of treatment.
I took one pill and my dick propelled off. It just flew off got damnit. I still miss it.
It depends.
Yeah, you won’t get any sort of externally visible changes from a single dose, but for some trans people that first dose can still be a life-changing experience.
They don’t warn you about it in the informed consent documentation, but for me that first day on HRT brought on an almost overwhelming feeling of gender euphoria. It was like a part of myself that had been missing since puberty finally fell into place. The weight of 25 years of repressed dysphoria fell from my shoulders and I couldn’t stop smiling, couldn’t even walk across a room without breaking into a little dance.
It took the better part of a week to start seeing some physical changes, and that was mostly in skin texture.
Sounds like the euphoria could also be from feeling relief that you finally have access to it?
that’s definitely part of it, but sex hormones interact with* neurotransmitters and the mental/emotional stuff tends to hit first, before any physical effects take place.
Not countering what you experienced, but sex hormones are not neurotransmitters. There may be some interactions with the neurotransmitter system but it they are not themselves.
yep, that’s more accurate ty!
Good life advice is to not take random medication from people in pubs.
But that’s where I find all the fun pharmaceuticals.
Yeah some girls offered to help shoot me up with e outside the gay bar. It’d be rude to refuse
Good life advice is to not take random medication from people in pubs.
Ok dad jeeze.
Don’t forget to drink lots of water!
What a hydro homie!
I mean… Recoiling in horror sounds a little bit like Woman Bad tm had something to do with it.
Being gender curious (or having Gender Imposter Syndrome) is a sign you’re not entirely 100% SuperCis, but people’s emotional reactions be complicated yo
Edit: As others said, there’s also the “take unverifiable drugs from someone (friend or not) in a bar setting”. And the “the post uses hyperbole for effect because memes”.
Complicated indeed…
