So a friend posted this on facebook today (it's from 2002, though) and I found it interesting.
It's an episode of This American Life about Testosterone and it's broken up into a few sections. There is an interview with a man who could produce no testosterone, an interview with a transman about the effects of T, a test of the radio show staff on who has the most testosterone and whether that fits into their stereotypes, and a piece about a mother trying to understand her teenage son.
I found the first and second sections the most interesting but it's all a good listen
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/220/Testosteronethoughts after listening:
Griffin (the transman of the second act) says that he noticed himself thinking more like a stereotypical misogynist pig in regards to women and sex after taking T. He also says other really stereotypical stuff and I think for people who are not familiar with transsexuality a kind of skewed view about ftms... like ftms want to be stereotypical beefheads and that is a benefit of taking T or something like that. Did anyone else get that impression?
The host of the show and Griffin do realize that themselves and the host says something like "you're putting us back 100 years." However I still think they should have explained other effects of T more... Though I can see that those kind of stereotypical anecdotes make for good radio programming.
I would also be interested in hearing more from men or women who for some reason do not have any testosterone at all and see if the first guy's experience was a typical one... or even the experience of someone who had spent any time (not on purpose of course) without testosterone or estrogen.. for example an ftm who had a hysto but wasn't getting hrt.
