You don’t have to be certain you’re transgender in order to go on hormones. In fact, Kaylee adds, going on hormones is “probably the best way to actually tell if you’re trans anyways.”16 You might have heard that testosterone comes with bad side effects—but you’ll rarely hear them mentioned here. YouTube and Insta gurus are about fun, and increased risks of various cancers and prophylactic hysterectomy are certainly not that. The most common side effect of testosterone that gurus talk about is the one that burnishes their trans bona fides: pain. The pain is acknowledged—even conveyed with
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Many trans youtubers go over effects of t. not just the good, which is exciting if that is what you have been searching for since understanding it would take alternative mean, no just injections as implied- you can get t in other forms it just may not be covered by insurance, there are thngs about the risk and if brought to a clinc a doctor would go over ALL risks and benifts of t. Not just positive.
