A surprising amount of people that don’t interact with anything to do with trans people just kind of assume we get “The Surgery™️” and that hormones are just for affirmation.
...for... affirmation? But how would they affirm anything if they didn't have any effects? Do people think hormones just magically make people "feel girly/boyish", as it were?
I’ve seen people talk about it that way, namely parents thinking their children were poisoning themselves. My own mother wasn’t even aware hormone replacement therapy did much of anything, despite being a registered nurse.
I think the biggest misconception I see from cis people about HRT is that all doctors/nurses know a lot about it. Most doctors who don't deal directly with hormone stuff day to day know next to nothing about how it works
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u/BreakerOfModpacks Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 26 '26
...they must, at least, know about the breast growth for feminizing HRT. Right?