Male-to-female (MTF) type transgender hormone therapy, also known as feminising hormone therapy, is a hormone and sex reassignment therapy to change the secondary sexual characteristics of transgender people from masculine (or androgynous) to feminine.
The effects of MTF therapy are reversible for some things, and not for others – just as some of the changes a boy (and girl, of course) experiences at puberty are...
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I want to get back to blogging about serious issues; feminism, fashion, and fun. OK, mainly without fashion. But the other two certainly. Unfortunately, I seem to be suffering a prolonged bout of selfishness. I’ve never written about me and my history, my situation before, and I’ve discovered that it helps. Yes, yes, I know writers have known that pretty much forever, but if I...
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When I was at university – late Pleistocene – I shared a flat with two women. Just two women. I really have been a woman loving man hating person all my life. One of those women, briefly my lover, was the President of the Liverpool University Guild of Undergraduates Women’s Group. The other woman, longer time lover of the woman briefly my lover, was the...
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All my adult life I’ve been ashamed of being a man – ashamed of how we treat women, how we behave, oh so much. All my life (as far back as I can remember) I’ve disliked males. For most of my life, I’ve not been comfortable as a man. All my life (since perhaps a bit before I knew what feminism was) I’ve been a...
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Chatting with my dear friend Casey (F, NY), we were discussing gender issues, and I’d suggested to her – in what I hope was a not-at-all-weird way – that I wished she had been my mother (no, seriously, in context it wasn’t weird, and I’m not really at liberty to explain the context). And Casey asked: “Serious question, if you were my little boy(?) what...
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Sorry, let things get the better of me a bit yesterday. Still, today is another day – obviously.
So what are we doing today? I could do a bit of history – I realised why @redberry seemed so familiar. I first met her four hundred and seven years ago, at Pendle Hill, during the Lancashire witch trials. Sorry about that sweetie, but girl, did you...
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When you’re really sad, confused, and upset, it’s probably OK to read Mark Anthony’s funeral speech from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (the one that starts “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.”, you know, that one), but it would appear it’s a dreadful mistake to have YouTube on, with Lost in Vegas reacting to Dire Straits’ Sultans of Swing while you read it.
I...
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"Some people say that trans men are just trying to escape sexism by turning into men. Let me tell you, when you're a transexual, you do not escape sexism, you are pushed right into an enormous swamp of sexism. When you experience both sides and more, you begin to see the sexism, you notice it when other people don't, when you play with gender...
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