Sorry if this is the wrong forum, if you couldn't tell I'm new to this place :'D

I was talking to my mum about gender and stuff one day, and while she's fine with my gender identity (trans male, and I don't think that'll change, never has) and is going to get me a binder I think she might be trying to "keep" her "daughter"...? She brought up the idea that I could have a hormone imbalance, and that brings me to my question: Could a hormone imbalance cause feelings of gender dysphoria?

I'm not sure, personally, but if it would I don't think that's why I'm so uncomfortable with myself; I've always been... kinda gender variant, and while I despise stereotypes I'd always play with the "boys' toys" and I loved cars and tractors and stuff, and I guess I've just never felt particularly girly...? I remember always wanting to play male roles when me and my friends did roleplay kind of games when we were little and getting really upset if I had to play a female. most of my characters i've created are male too, i find it really hard to create females for some reason so out of my 25 or so characters in the place i keep them two are definitely female and while i have some genderless/nonbinary ones they present more masculine, and the rest are definitely male... oops xD

My parents have suggested the same thing - I got some blood work done and it showed I was below the normal range on T and high in the normal range for E. I was planning on asking my new therapist on Tuesday (at my parents' request, and these are their words) "If you just took hormones to get everything back to normal, would those feelings go away?"

Also, I can totally relate to parents wanting to keep their, in my case, son. At a family bbq while I was last in VA my dad came up to me and, for some reason, said, "You're a big guy, you know that?" He looked so happy that I didn't want to argue.

There is no evidence that gender dysphoria has any connection to a hormone imbalance.  There are plenty here that had very high hormone levels and still suffered dysphoria.  I am one. 


Sapere Aude

Here are some materials that might be shown :

https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,208438.msg1847638.html#msg1847638

This is an emotional letter fom a cis parent .. parts of it might be shown :

http://www.acceptingdad.com/2013/08/05/to-the-unicorns-dad/


Transgender people have brains predisposed before birth, thats why many people react positively to hormones of the gender the identify with.

Hormones cannot change how people identify.
If you give hormones of the other gender to cis people they do not want it.


I like your writing with strikethroughs 


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I was given a series of injections of testosterone when I was 15 to 'fix' me. I had undescended testicles, and had been caught dressing 'inappropriately'.  I understand this was the state of the art for treatment back in the 1960s, but it didn't help.  It basically changed me from a 'sissy' A student to an angry and irrational D student with no ability to concentrate. 

So, no, I suspect that 'correcting' hormone levels doesn't actually fix a person with a transgender nature.

as others have said hormones don't effect the gender you identify as. I know someone who had low testosterone and was given testosterone shots. however the negative thoughts, feelings and internal conflict persisted. it wasn't until she started to transition and started HRT that those things improved.

Here is an interesting article about a study that showed there was a physical difference in the brains of transgender MTF and FTM

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-there-something-unique-about-the-transgender-brain/

Ah, I see, thanks all of you! I didn't think it would, I knew about the brain thing but I just needed clarification I guess. So I'll show those links to my mum when she gets home later c: