Hi,
My endo thinks that I have low DHT and that this is the cause for any gender identity problems I am having. Anyone have experience with this? Is it possible that DHT could cause transgender feelings? My doctor wants to give me DHT. I don't want to take it because I don't want to be anymore masculine than I already am.

Quote from: Hippolover25 on July 30, 2012, 01:31:11 PM
Hi,
My endo thinks that I have low DHT and that this is the cause for any gender identity problems I am having. Anyone have experience with this? Is it possible that DHT could cause transgender feelings? My doctor wants to give me DHT. I don't want to take it because I don't want to be anymore masculine than I already am.

Medically, I don't know anything about this.

Here's what I do know:
* You are not required to do what any doctor tells you. You are entitled to make your own choices.
* You are entitled to a second opinion from another doctor before you ingest any chemical.
* If you know or think you know inside yourself who you really are, you are more likely to be right than someone reading numbers on a blood test.

Whatever you do, don't let a doctor's judgment override your own. If it doesn't seem right to you, don't do it. Don't let anyone push you into a treatment that you are not 100% comfortable with.

I've never heard of GID being caused by low T or E. If that were the case wouldn't every single person over the age of 50 have it? Also children, wouldn't all children have it?

Not sayign your doctor doesn't know what they are doing, just never heard of this.

BTW, where do you live? I have heard that most countries are not allowing DHT. Don't know why this is.

--Jay Jay

Sounds to me like your Dr is trying to "cure" you of GID. Since there is no cure for it, it sounds as though the Dr is trying to impose his own set of ideals on you without any regard for current scientific evidence. I would request another Dr, but that's just my opinion.

Info on DHT here. Is associated with male pattern baldness and BPH (prostrate problems).
http://www.hemingways.org/GIDinfo/hrt_ref.htm

More info here: https://www.susans.org/wiki/5-alpha-reductase_deficiency

DHT is apparently exceedingly potent, and has to do with genital development in utero.

I agree he sounds like he is trying to "cure" you. There is no evidence than anything cures being transgender.

--Jay Jay