“So basically I lay down on this little chair thing, with my butt hanging out,”17 an obviously female Alex Bertie vlogged at age seventeen, documenting her first injection of testosterone. A nurse “shoves a needle in, and I’m kind of like, ‘Uh, uh, that hurts a little bit more than I thought it would.’ There was like a spike of pain. And then as she injects it, the pain kind of like goes up a little bit, just slowly increasing.”18 Alex Bertie was more than up to the test: “I’m not going to lie, it hurt. It f*ing hurt.”
