Virilization

[WillApple]

I've been lifting natural for 3 years. I was thinking about supplimenting my performance for a while...

I hate to say this. i do. I don't like tossing my personal information all over the world. I am a transman. I was born female, and am in conseling for sex reassignment surgery. The deal is, though, that nobody is taking me very seriously. So, contrary to what you'll hear most female-born people here saying, I need to know what has the most virilization side-effects, especially in proportion to other "unwanted" side-effects.

I appreciate the anticipated sensativity related to this issue. Even though this is my first post, I hae been reading for a while, and if you flame me, I have enough self-respect to let every moderator know about it.

Thank you.
Will

 

[MaxBiceps]

Hi Will! A very good friend of mine named Jason is a trans-gender (female bron). He takes testosterone from perscription from his doctor. I assume that what you would probably want would be testosterone since it is the main male hormone that makes men, well manly. There are other drugs that cause more virilization, like anadrol, but thjose are harsh and cannot be taken for extended periods of time. (I'm assuming you want to stay on hormone replacement for life?) Good Luck

 

[Sadist]

Yeah test year round will do the trick. I just saw a special about several female gymnists in Russia that were given so much steroids( unknowingly) that they had sex change operations. After 3 or 4 years they could grow full beards, had male pattern body hair ( and balding) and their whole facial features were rough and "manly". Hang in there with the surgery,I hear they take you through a rather lengthy process, psych evaluation and usually you have to be on the hormone treatment for several years before they will do the surgery.

 

[Bar Room Hero]

I really have no sensitivity in regard to this issue. We had an "it" at my college. I didn't like "it." Save the money that you might spend on surgery and masculinization and spend it on a shrink. You people have some serious malfunctions.

 

[WillApple]

Yes, I am seeing a psychologist who does not have it within his power to get me a perscription. Due to other reasons, I cannot drive and cannot get to any other. Maybe y'all would like to tell me where I could get testosterone legally without a prescription, or tell me about a bad case of masculinization by a female friend who accedientally got too many masculinizing chemicals.

Thanks for the notes on testosterone and "the process" but I've already looked into that and am trying to play within the rules. It is a system as draggled by red-tape as anything else. I'm well aware of "the way things work", but this is enough of an uphill battle without the silly technicalities added to it (i.e. 18 months of counseling with a gender-specialist Psychiastrist (read: 3 times more expensive) to prove that I feel what I feel).

In reply to "Bar Room Bully"-- I mean 'hero', we live in a culture where there is no polite non-gendered pronoun for people (i.e. "it" only refers to a thing, not a person) and it is very rude for one to call such a person by that sort of non-title. Maybe the transperson you met wasn't very nice, but please do not judge a category of persons on that. If the problem is that you are not secure in your gender or orientation, I can't help you there. In either case, what you said had nothing to do with anything except spreading a hate-based opinion. We may have some serious malfunctions, but so do you for not being mature enough to BUTT OUT when you don't have anything productive to say.

Respectful and grateful to all,
Will