T-Blockers?

[texadon]

Hello everyone!

I'm new here, so maybe you saw my intro post over on that board?


Anyhoo, I was wondering about T-Blockers. I'm 16 mtf, but I'm not planning on going anywhere near surgery at any point in my life. However I recently remember hearing someone... I don't remember who.... well anyway the idea was presented to me of stages of transitioning. Like of course the natural order is t-blockers, then estrogen, then surgery, but that you could stop at any point on that scale, that is if you need something more than crossdressing. I had assumed that t-blockers for an extended period of time would be harmful to the body, like keeping it in a pre-pubescant cocoon.

1. Can I take t-blockers and only t-blockers for an indefinite amount of time?

2. Will they affect my voice? (it has already lowered from puberty, but even may be rising again, so I might not be all the way through puberty if that matters)

3. Will they affect hair growth?

4. Can I safely go on and off of blockers? I've heard that sperm banks or whatever cost a lot of money and I'm worried about fertility (call me a backwards intolerant pooh, but my ancestry an gees are an integral part of my being)


Basically my understanding right now is that they affect things that are controlled by active hormones but not things that have physically changed like vocal chords. Is this true?


Thank you all for any responses and help
Andy

[Cindy]

Hi,

Modern T-blockers are totally reversible, that is why they are used. If the client decides they wish to continue with their original gender they are given a hormone boost to re induce puberty.

They, basically, hold you in stasis of prepuberty as far as sexual changes occur.

MtF going off blockers are fertile men.. FtM going off blockers are fertile female.

Of course all of this is under very strict control from paediatricians and the medical team that looks after young people.

Generally we try to give them just as puberty starts. Not too early, not too late but just right!

The danger, and it is a danger is that the teen client is without cross sex hormones for a number of years of teen bone growth, this can lead to serious issues and needs very close monitoring.

Also (sorry if this is too much info) the young person is not going through the puberty changes of their  friends, so there  is a need for continued psychological support.

That is a young MtF may not be developing her breasts and fat distribution, and a young FtM may not be building his muscle mass and male hair. So it does need a family, school and medical approach, but the good units are very good at it. A lot better than they are for adults!