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[–]Alienhunter糞大名 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I suspect that testosterone does actually make women feel better in the short term. Since the psychological consequences of higher testosterone do mean higher self confidence. Of course it also means higher aggression, and the long term physiological effects as well as the issues of what happens when the brain becomes adapted to higher testosterone levels are not well understood I think. At least not in women.

[–]Wanderingthehalls 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The thing that gets me about transmen is that they almost never work out, as in consistent resistance training. Almost none of them go to the effort of widening their delts and building their biceps through exercise. I'm not saying that muscular women look like men unless they are using steroids/testosterone. But there would surely be some relief from dysphoria that would come from having a strong muscular upper body. And doing movements most associated with men, due to their significantly higher upper body strength, like lifting heavy weights, 60 push-ups or even 1 pull-up. Women even experience a boost in testosterone from that kind of exercise.

You do see a handful of buff transmen, Buck Angel being the most obvious. And there is one with an ugly chin beard who shills for Saidhbh Gallagher. But they mostly don't because they very, very obviously don't have dysphoria. And the sad thing is, that while body building does have the potential to become mentally unhealthy, for the most part the exercise improves mental health greatly. So a lot of these young women would just settle more into their bodies if they started to exercise.