QuoteIf they must drop back to safe "postop-level" doses of hormones for health reasons, the testosterone produced by their testicles inevitably causes a steady coarsening of their features.
Being on HRT for a while
will damage your testicles....
so they won't produce (that much) testosterone ever again... even after being off HRT.
The use of anti androgens is reversible...the use of high doses of estrogens isn't, after a year or so. Especially considering the testicles.
QuoteTestosterone also escalates the aging process in TG transitioners, robbing them of their youthful beauty much earlier in life than is the case for postop TS women (this effect has long been known in the gay male "drag queen" community
Read above mentioned.
Have you ever noticed FTM on high doses of testo very, very often look like 'babyfaced' boys? No matter what their age is?
That's because of their overall smaller facial features and the smaller size of their heads plus no browridge etc.
MTF have bigger overall sizes including their head size and facial features and that's something that makes one look 'older', pre or post op, doesn't matter.
And sadly...any human/MTF head/face will increase with middle age...sooner or later, pre, non or post op.
And then shrink with old age.
Plus 'filling out' a former male (big!) face is also something that makes one look older.
Young people usually have lean faces, middle aged people very often have 'puffy' faces and MTF of all ages too, including a big ol' honking head.
QuoteTG transitioners and ****** who were once very soft and pretty in their teens and twenties may have great difficulty finding male companions and lovers as they grow into their 40's and beyond.
That's quite a statement, isn't it?
Who says a post SRS MTF who's into men (only!) is more successful in finding a male partner than a TG or a ******* ? The person who wrote that quote actually says SRS is the solution for MTF loneliness. And giving false hope.
Listen to this young and fysical attractive and probably very passable post op:
!
She sounds
very frustrated and angry..probably because she believed above mentioned assumption: post op and having a vagina will find me a straight guy.
Sadly it doesn't work that simple.
QuoteOld age can become a frighteningly lonely time for such people, and this factor should be carefully considered before undertaking a TG transition
Well, not only for 'such people' but for post srs MTF who are into men (only) too.
QuoteTG transitioners having strong libidos can continue to enjoy penile erections and orgasms after castration, and thus continue to enjoy the male aspects of their sexuality.
You'll only need a teensy tiny bit of testo...just a little bit to maintain erections and (dry) orgasms....not the full natural dose produced by testicles but the tiny bit by the adrenal glands.
Plus what's going on in your head.
Being on HRT for a while makes castration redundant....because one is already effectively chemically castrated.
Quotethe testosterone produced by their testicles inevitably causes a steady coarsening of their features.
I would say that's not (only) because of testosterone but because of augmenting certain parts of the face and having had (way) too much plastic surgery.
There aren't that many, sooner or later surgically untouched TG, *******, and MTF pre, post and non ops.
Cheekimplants and lipaugmentation can make one look really harsh
and older, ciswomen too.
A too thinned out, too short surgically altered nose makes one, and ciswomen too, look harsh because it doesn't match anymore with the 'surrounding face', especially in combination with cheekimplants.
An aging nose often 'thins out' instead of the other possibility of 'growing' cartilage/nose tip.
A(n overagressive) jaw and chinreduction (and that looks weird in combination with cheekimplants) can one make older too, since both jaws and chin will shrink with age because of boneloss. In all people that is.
'Shrinking' a MTF jaw and chin can make one look prematurely older even after a (necessary) lower facelift.
I've seen post SRS/FFS MTF whom I mistook for being in their early/mid 40's....who turned out to be in their late 20's/early 30's.
It's not only testosterone that will cause damage and looking older with a coarse, harsh face, wrongly chosen plastic surgery procedures will too.
A (too much) surgically altered face makes it harsh looking, thus older too. MTF or cis...and ciswomen of all ages who had too much plastic surgery often look like....(aging) MTF.
