Hormones and behavior

[MeTony]

My psychologist asked me if I have had my hormone levels checked. I said no. Can high T-levels in a biological woman make one behave like a male?

[josie76]

Higher Than levels will have mental effects like they do in men. Generally the person may be more assertive but it is a combination of personality traits that make a person be who they are. Hormone levels will not make a parson more or less trans. Those experiments were done along time ago and proved useless.

My aunt had T therapy after a full historectomy years ago. She commented that she was more outspoken when she saw something not right. She made a joke about one incident where she said that now she knew what it was like to have balls. Lol. It didn't make her feel like a man or have any want to be one. I think after a while her system got used to the T level and now she's just her regular self.

So my experience with male labels of T and later dropping off over years: Testosterone made it easier for me to put my emotional side of my brain on the back burner. It allowed me to think around having to feel much of anything. Of course as many female instinct as I have had surface in my life is guess my brain is pretty well wired feminine. So blocking my emotions was an never ending struggle. So what Testosterone does not help block is anger and fear. I think these emotions must come from the more primitive cerebellum part of the brain as they are needed for survival. Those were always readily felt emotions with testosterone. Might explain why steroid users are in a near rage at all times.

[jentay1367]

Of course. It would at the very least make you more aggressive and most likely more prone to risky behavior. The reason trans women take estrogen is to lower t and raise e to make our emotions jive with our brains. For many of us, the physical is secondary to the conscious changes that come with a change in hormones.

[Gertrude]

Higher Than levels will have mental effects like they do in men. Generally the person may be more assertive but it is a combination of personality traits that make a person be who they are. Hormone levels will not make a parson more or less trans. Those experiments were done along time ago and proved useless.

My aunt had T therapy after a full historectomy years ago. She commented that she was more outspoken when she saw something not right. She made a joke about one incident where she said that now she knew what it was like to have balls. Lol. It didn't make her feel like a man or have any want to be one. I think after a while her system got used to the T level and now she's just her regular self.

So my experience with male labels of T and later dropping off over years: Testosterone made it easier for me to put my emotional side of my brain on the back burner. It allowed me to think around having to feel much of anything. Of course as many female instinct as I have had surface in my life is guess my brain is pretty well wired feminine. So blocking my emotions was an never ending struggle. So what Testosterone does not help block is anger and fear. I think these emotions must come from the more primitive cerebellum part of the brain as they are needed for survival. Those were always readily felt emotions with testosterone. Might explain why steroid users are in a near rage at all times.

I had taken t as I have ed and my wife wanted it. At first I injected once every two weeks. Levels were up and down never going above low normal . Understand I was starting from 134. By the end of two weeks it would be back to low. Then my Doc changed it to twice a week with a lower dose each shot , but double what I was taking. Then it was 910. At that level it was like being 15 again. Anger was definitely exacerbated. Dysphoria was worse too. I went off because my prescription insurance changed and didn't cover it for ed. Funny thing is they cover hormones for gd. I haven't gone down that road yet though. I feel mentally better off t.


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[Kylo]

My psychologist asked me if I have had my hormone levels checked. I said no. Can high T-levels in a biological woman make one behave like a male?

Not sure it's possible to find male normal ranges of T being produced by ovaries, but testosterone HRT in the male range certainly can do when given to a female body.

I behave like one now, on HRT. Although I always did in general it seems.

[maksim]

I've had very high T levels (for a female body at least) since my mid-teen years. I discovered I was trans long before this, but it did make me start acting more traditionally masculine and it affected my bodily functions as well. I was pretty happy about it, but when I was trying to train myself to be female again I found that it was very hard to do so. Around the time I came out as trans again, my T levels had dropped to a normal range and my E levels rose, much to my distaste. I've become much more emotional than I used to be, and pretty much the regular signs of normal estrogen levels in women.
But throughout that entire time, I've been solid in my identity as male. So unlike many people (including my family) believe, I don't think natural T levels have an impact on trans identity itself, rather impacting behaviors.

[MeTony]

Thank you all. Maybe I should check my T levels. I easily build muscle and have male behavior since...forever.

It won't change anything though. I'm still FTM. But it would be interesting to know.

[jentay1367]

Have you ever checked to see if you're chromosomally inter sexed? Have a DNA Test and find out where you are on the genetic spectrum. It may just answer a myriad of unanswered questions for you. Good luck. 

[MeTony]

Have you ever checked to see if you're chromosomally inter sexed? Have a DNA Test and find out where you are on the genetic spectrum. It may just answer a myriad of unanswered questions for you. Good luck.

No I have not. I need to check these things up.

The fat also stays on my belly, not my hips or thighs.