• AdaA
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    1010 months ago

    There isn’t really an yes or no answer to whether it’s “easier”

    Testosterone is a pretty potent hormone, and many features that don’t masculinise under estrogen start to do so with testosterone. So things like body hair, facial hair, muscle etc, deeper voice etc all happen. Undoing many of those things isn’t so easy though, so trans women often have to do more than hormone replacement to “undo” the changes that testosterone did.

    However, the reverse is true as well. Breasts develop under estrogen, and they don’t go away just by starting testosterone. They often require surgery to be able to address. However, trans women can grow them just by starting estrogen. Similarly, if the trans guy wants genital reconstruction surgery, it’s more complex, invasive and expensive than genital reconstruction for trans women is.

    Lots of words to say that neither is really “easier”

    • @Hirom@beehaw.org
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      10 months ago

      Thanks for the reply. This command respect for people who go through all of this.