consequences of cross sex hormones?

[xxUltraModLadyxx]

i'm just asking this question out of curiousity, but does anyone know if you are on cross sex hormones long enough, the effects eventually become permanent? what i mean is that if you were to go off say after months of being on estrogen and anti androgens, would you be able to revert to your male hormone balance, or would you basically kill the testicles functions off?

[JoanneL]

Take your pick. Most cannot but a few have been successful

[lilacwoman]

this is something we don't hear much about despite lots of 'experts' saying that 90% of people who start transition drop out after a while.

I've never seen anything about these failures turning up at doctors for help in regaining original male or femaleness either...so perhaps the effects of hormones does wear off after a while ...it would be interesting to see some info

All we hear is the idiots who go all the way then try to sue the doctors.

[Wild Flower]

Only been using spiro for like over 2 yr, can't really remember when I begin, but  when I stop last yr... I went back to normal. Now, I been on it for a month, but it's low dosage.

I remain a male, just less acne perhaps and less hairy.

[Felecia]

this is something we don't hear much about despite lots of 'experts' saying that 90% of people who start transition drop out after a while.

Wow that is a really high number who drop out for transitioning. I would have thought the number would have been the opposite.

Do you have a link to some the statistics eg. From the American Physcological Association?
Thanks

[lilacwoman]

its a figure thats quoted quite often in the literature by gender clinic staff and especially those who say sex change surgery is a waste of money.
just what is mean by failed transition is hard to know.   is it an attempt at taking hormones or crossdressing in public or being persuaded by a shrink that 'you're just mixed up and not really TS'. 

Considering that in UK the figure of MtF post-ops is usually quoted as about 5000/6000 which is 1 in 10,000 while vastly more CD/TV/TG are around the 90% figure might actually refer to those who turned up at GP/counsellors and claimed to be TS but settled for/were persuaded that they were/it was better to be an occasional CD/TV/G/L  rather than 'ruin their life' by taking hormones or going for surgery.

If 1 in 1,000 men were CD/TV/TG/G with some element of crossdressing then that would give the 90% ratio.