Each of us embarked in this journey with different aims. Some wanted boobs, other less hair, others booty & hips etc... To be honest, I don't really know why I started taking hormones. Supposedly to be eligible for SRS, to have boobs, smoother skin and think like a girl. There are some surgeons who accept doing SRS without being on hormones + I can do the silicone implant directly + I was always a girl in my head. I am just in fact flowing with the 'mass' by taking hormones. When I look back I don't really know the real reason I am taking it and if it is really that necessary. Maybe I started taking it cos I'll need to take it anyway after SRS to avoid the osteoporosis of the pre-menopause effect.

But what's the REAL reason you all pre-ops started taking hormones, is it that necessary after all?

Well I am not yet..

...but whatever I try to do to shake this and lead a "normal" life seems to fail...so I suppose it is deep in my subconcious..

I'm just like a moth that is drawn to a lightbulb...

....I'm still far enough away most of the time to make rational decisions about my life, 

...I can fly around, but I remain invisibly drawn to the light, and cannot leave the room..

..but sooner or later I will be drawn too close and get burned..

Chrissty

Tis a strange question
for me the real reason is the same as any other assumed reason... so I can look in the mirror with or without clothes and see 'me'. And go about my life feeling and being the woman that I REALly am!! 

@@.. I am taking hormones because I am a girl and my body doesn't produce them naturally.
Is there any other reason to take them? :X

I have to say there was only one aim when I commenced taking hormones, to change genders.  I never intended or thought estrogen would change my thinking?

Anyone taking estrogen for other reasons strikes me as unusual.

Quote from: Myself on October 16, 2009, 05:07:01 AM
@@.. I am taking hormones because I am a girl and my body doesn't produce them naturally.
Is there any other reason to take them? :X

I have to agree.  My body wasn't producing the correct type of hormones, however developing breasts was extremely important to me.

-={LR}=-

Bloke barging in on your girltalk here...

I haven't started T yet, but it's gonna happen soon.

I'm after it for a number of reasons that all narrow down to one.
"I don't have any testicles."

That's just a more crass way of saying the same thing as Myself really. I want my T because I'm a guy and my body isn't producing the right amounts of it.
I embrace all the effects that will follow and plan to meet them head on, even if some of them might be annoying or whatever. I don't care. I'm a man, a man should have a certain level of testosterone in his system, I don't have the testicles to tend to that job, thus, I will take testosterone from an external source.
(Can't wait for some of the physical effects though...)

Quote from: Myself on October 16, 2009, 05:07:01 AM
@@.. I am taking hormones because I am a girl and my body doesn't produce them naturally.
Is there any other reason to take them? :X

ya, me too. Because if I didn't do something about the dysphoria I was going to end up dead.

Quote from: Myself on October 16, 2009, 05:07:01 AM
@@.. I am taking hormones because I am a girl and my body doesn't produce them naturally.
Is there any other reason to take them? :X

Like Chrissty, I'm not yet taking hormones, but, when I do (hopefully soon) it will be for much the same reason as many have stated here - because my (defective) body doesn't produce them correctly and if I'm to become the girl I was supposed to have been born, then HRT is a starting point and SRS will be nearing the endpoint, though there is much more than just these two to becoming fully integrated with myself (not Myself , sorry couldn't resist).

Deanna

I am taking them for the sames reason as all the Gals and guys here. To make my body congruent with my brain.

I do also have to say that my Breasts feel wonderfully sensitive as they are growing. I am now a B cup hoping for more.

Quote from: Myself on October 16, 2009, 05:07:01 AM
@@.. I am taking hormones because I am a girl and my body doesn't produce them naturally.
Is there any other reason to take them? :X

Fifth.


Janet

To make the appearance of my body (hips, breasts, skin,) be female.  To get rid of the male smell caused by testesterone (yuk).

Susan

I took hormones because if i didnt, i'd become more male and feel much worse...

I wanted the body of the girl I am, girls get thier bodys through that hormone, so I did the same to have the body that fits my mind... I'm right now... I wanted the job lot of effects thanks! Though I didnt think hormones make you think like a girl.... isn't that sort of a prerequesite for transition? lol.

Quote from: The None Blonde on October 16, 2009, 04:45:59 PM
Though I didnt think hormones make you think like a girl....

YEAH IT CHANGES YOUR MIND TOO! Before I use to be horny like hell, speak brutally and aggressively like a man and SWEAR a lot. Though I still swear on and off, it's much less now. Before I could tell a guy directly "I wanna suck your cock!". Now I feel shy and coy and would never say such things directly but mince my words and say things in a very indirect and feminine way.

Hmmmm, thats not changing your MIND. Just the way it happens...

Testosterone fuels anger, so its easy to get mad.... agressive.

Estrogen doesnt... the hornyness is a biological thing, not neurological.

Tbh it changes how you think the same things.... its only difference is the reaction to stimuli, your thoughts are entierly the same....

The best analogy that I can come up with is... NOT taking hormones is like trying to run a gas-powered car with water. It doesn't run right. Mentally, physically, etc.

I started taking hormones in my teens to STOP my body from being ruined, doing things that were ugly (to me). I don't know if it was actually the hormones themselves or just knowing that I was taking them but they also had a calming effect that took the edge off the rest of the problems - that probably helped me last as long as I did. The fact that they helped my physical development was almost secondary.

My real reasons for starting HRT were to stop the masculinization process, reverse the testosterone damage to a certain degree & induce the secondary sexual characteristics of my real gender.

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Edit:  Or you could use my signature for my reason too:

"...and the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nin