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[–]MarkTwainiac 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

One of the reasons the idea that PBs will help a trans teen pass better and have an "easy medical transition" is questionable is coz it's based entirely on suppositions regarding the male population of trans youth - suppositions that were invented and pushed by grown adult TIMs to conform with their pie-in-the-sky and wholly self-centered fantasies about what they think they would've preferred to have happened to themselves when they were kids.

But the suppositions of these grown men have been pretty thoroughly debunked by what happened to Jazz Jennings, who underwent numerous experimental genital surgeries, including one that spectacularly failed, because PBs leave boys with such small penises and scrotums that there's not enough genital tissue for surgeons to do conventional fauxgina and fauxlva surgeries, so skin grafts from other parts of the body must be used. Moreover, boys who take PBs early in puberty as Jazz did end up with no libido, no sexual function, no capacity to experience sexual pleasure or orgasm. Since most TIMs who went through natural puberty are entirely driven by their male libidos and their quest to experience their own male sexual pleasure, I highly doubt any of them would be happy to end up like Jazz.

As far as female youth go, the information published so far is that girls who take PBs for "gender dysphoria" also end up sexually dysfunctional and most likely sterile - plus, they end up shorter as adults than they otherwise would have been. Stunting the height of these girls will definitely make it far less likely that they'll "pass" as males in adulthood. In still photographs or videos when they are not seen next to males, many "transmen" seem to pass at first glance coz of the beards and receding hairlines. But when seen in IRL, or in media where they're shown alongside males (including TIMs), the small stature of most TIFs even if they never took PBs almost always gives them away. As do their often tiny hands, which they can't always keep in their pockets so they remain hidden from view.

Case in point is TIF Chase Strangio with TIM Laverne Cox: https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/laverne-cox-and-chase-strangio-attend-the-71st-emmy-awards-news-photo/1176562309

Chase Strangio with other people: https://www.gettyimages.in/detail/news-photo/lee-gelernt-josh-kriegman-brigitte-amiri-chase-strangio-and-news-photo/1202126760

TIF Mack Beggs in red shirt with TIM Terry Miller to Beggs' right, and TIM Andraya Yearwood in long dress: https://www.zimbio.com/photos/Terry+Miller/Andraya+Yearwood/Changing+Game+2019+Tribeca+Film+Festival/5QE9BpFi7AN

Can you imagine of either Strangio or Beggs had taken PBs how much smaller they'd be?