Biochemical dysphoria

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[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Hormonal imbalances are certainly real and probably play a huge role in disphoria. I'm just not sure why the general line of thinking isn't to try giving people hormones that match their sex rather than giving them hormones for the opposite sex.

[–]Vulptexghost fox girl ^w^ 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It doesn't work for the same reason trying to change the body with hormones doesn't work. Because it can only make surface-level changes, anything that's already grown will not change. Sometimes it can work for young boys, and usually that's by puberty happening naturally. But otherwise not much can be done.