Estrogen and fatness

[ellyrouge.livejournal.com]

Hi,

I have a question concerning the impact of estrogen on weight, but also on fat distribution.
( Click to show my dilemmas concerning regime and hrt )

Hormone Question

[marc-87.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry if this is a stupid question but I have been wondering for awhile now. Anyways, everything I read says most of the effects of hormone replacement therapy is irreversible. Like the deepening of the voice (for FtM), fat redistribution, etc. So why do you have to continue taking it? If the majority of the secondary characteristics (at least that is what it seems to be to me) are generally not reversed by stopping the hormone replacement then why do you need to continue? Just curious.

Question and answer series regarding trans* issues

[parthenogenic.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine is doing an "Ask the Expert" thread on trans* issues for a general interests message board here. He did one of these before and the response was very positive. This time, he's going to be having others contributing to the thread with their own experiences. The goal is for it to put more information out there and educate, as well as to offer support to one another.

However, the problem with this is that all of the people contributing are FtM and also very early in transition. A woman's perspective would be really helpful, as would a more experienced voice.

If anyone is interested in joining the discussion, the site is free to join. Also, you can post to the thread without registering there, though comments will be moderated.

male pattern baldness when taking T

[elizabeth1010.livejournal.com]

I just had a curious thought. I myself identify as female, but I have a question for the guys here. When taking T over an extended period of time (years or more), is male-pattern baldness a common occurrence? I was mostly just curious.

A Somewhat Philosophical Question [Controversial]

[p01s0n3d.livejournal.com]

Hey, so I'm Nikk; it's short for Nikolai, but nobody ever calls me that. I'm seventeen years old, and I suppose that I roll with the FtM label. Suppose because I try not to be too sure of anything. Suppose because I'm not so sure that adopting labels is conducive to living my life. Labels make things complicated. I have a female body, but the rest of me is distinctly not-female and I want to have male anatomy (along with the little things like voice). If that makes me an FtM, so be it.

We still have these labels though, and I always want to know why. Don't bother denying that labels don't exist. If they didn't exist, why are you in a trans community? If I didn't consider myself transgender, I wouldn't be posting this, you wouldn't be reading it, and in fact, we'd probably live very "normal" lives - no fear, no transition, just lives. If that's the case, then why do we feel the need to call ourselves transgender? If we didn't call ourselves transgender, what would we be?

We call ourselves transgender, creating a dividing line between ourselves and everyone who's not transgender. We are [for the most part] proud of our identity and are determined to turn it into actuality. For all the trouble we've actually gone to make our wants surfacebound, I have to wonder if it's worth it? Is it worth segregating ourselves from the cisgendered community? What would happen if labels disappeared altogether and there was nothing left to tie the trans community together but experience: would we still face the amount of segregation from the "norm" that we do?

I'm sorry if these questions are a bit... philosophically obscure. I'm just curious. I realize that my questions might not be the clearest (since they aren't exactly the easiest to articulate), so if you have any clarifying questions, please ask.