@ajsmartini T costs me about 100 -150 with syringes and thats for a vial. the Viral is 10mL of 200mg/mL so that makes 2,000mL of Testosterone. The average dose is about .5cc or .5mL every week which means 100mg a week and about 20 weeks of shots, give or take how much you can get out of the vial. So I need T about 2x, 3x a year--its not that bad but insurances if it covers it makes it cheaper. The expensive part is the doctors visits to endo, the blood work, the follow up blood work, etc
This video was a great follow up to your other video. Thanks for expanding on your thoughts. To add my thoughts- I feel that it is very limiting for anyone, regardless of their trans status, to identify as anything other than queer or pansexual. As transgendered people, we should be aware that there is a larger gender spectrum than strictly male/female- which allows for endless possibilities of who we may be attracted to.
@feedthefire32 I hear what you are saying but I feel that the terminology and how I express my gender and sexual orientation is up to me, and what more closely fits me is the identity of heterosexual male...i dont feel queer or pansexual appropriately define my sexual orientation regardless of the fact that I recognize the gender and sexual orientation as a spectrum not a line of black white and gray. I do keep the right to reassign myself if and when the need arises or my desires change...
I haven't seen postgender's video so I may be misinterpreting you here, but you seem to be saying that taking hormones can't affect sexual orientation because you feel there would be negative ramifications were that the case.
Whether or not sexuality can be altered by hormones (or genetics, or upbringing, or therapy, etc.) is a matter of fact, not ideology. It happens or it doesn't. What we would like to be true does not come into it.
@Wosbachia what i am referring to is the search by many conservatives to find the 'gay gene' or find a way of curing people of this horrible affliction....what i am saying is that isn't the way to go about it. People are gay for a variety of interacting principals which doctors already recognize, physical and psychological. Hormones in my mind dont affect sexual orientation directly, and only indirectly in that they make the person more comfortable with their body and expressing attraction
Yes, but do you have evidence that hormones don't affect it directly? I've never come across any studies on whether sexual orientation can be altered by hormone therapy, but anecdotal reports from trans people indicate that it's not out of the question. At this point, we can only conclude that we don't really know.
I agree that humanity would probably be better off without the ability to manipulate or "cure" gender and sexual variance, but that doesn't mean it isn't possible.
@Wosbachia from what i've read it appears that hormones influence sexual orientation possibly in the beginning stages of development in the womb. sexual orientation has a different brain chemistry depending on whether you are homo, hetero, or bi..
(cont.) When I made that video, it was originally intended only for facebook friends, and I posed the question to promote some dialogue. I do worry sometimes that posing provocative questions can be taken out of context, e.g., generate fear in some guys that transition might somehow make them different people entirely. But I think it's important to talk about this stuff, and I appreciate your doing that with me.
@postgender ya no problem...thanks for continuing the dialogue....i agree that dialogue is super important because its not a black n white issue [well nothing ever really is]...thanks for promoting talking about it...
You're a cool guy, Adam. Thanks for this response. I agree with you in many respects. I'm also squeamish about the idea that our medical treatments can sway sexuality. But I do wonder about the role of hormones in desire, and how that opens us up to possibilities. I also think that being trans forces us to interrogate both gender and sexuality to a degree that most people don't experience. (cont.)
how much does T cost a month? I heard it was better to have insurance because it is so expensive, is that true?
ajsmartini 1 year ago
@ajsmartini T costs me about 100 -150 with syringes and thats for a vial. the Viral is 10mL of 200mg/mL so that makes 2,000mL of Testosterone. The average dose is about .5cc or .5mL every week which means 100mg a week and about 20 weeks of shots, give or take how much you can get out of the vial. So I need T about 2x, 3x a year--its not that bad but insurances if it covers it makes it cheaper. The expensive part is the doctors visits to endo, the blood work, the follow up blood work, etc
ajester23 1 year ago
nice facial hair, its commin in nicely. are you passing 100% all the time or has there been times where its been less than 100%?
Maiku2010 1 year ago
@Maiku2010 i've always pretty much passed, when I started T it was 80% of the time and now its def 100%
ajester23 1 year ago
This video was a great follow up to your other video. Thanks for expanding on your thoughts. To add my thoughts- I feel that it is very limiting for anyone, regardless of their trans status, to identify as anything other than queer or pansexual. As transgendered people, we should be aware that there is a larger gender spectrum than strictly male/female- which allows for endless possibilities of who we may be attracted to.
feedthefire32 1 year ago
@feedthefire32 I hear what you are saying but I feel that the terminology and how I express my gender and sexual orientation is up to me, and what more closely fits me is the identity of heterosexual male...i dont feel queer or pansexual appropriately define my sexual orientation regardless of the fact that I recognize the gender and sexual orientation as a spectrum not a line of black white and gray. I do keep the right to reassign myself if and when the need arises or my desires change...
ajester23 1 year ago
I haven't seen postgender's video so I may be misinterpreting you here, but you seem to be saying that taking hormones can't affect sexual orientation because you feel there would be negative ramifications were that the case.
Whether or not sexuality can be altered by hormones (or genetics, or upbringing, or therapy, etc.) is a matter of fact, not ideology. It happens or it doesn't. What we would like to be true does not come into it.
Wosbachia 1 year ago
@Wosbachia what i am referring to is the search by many conservatives to find the 'gay gene' or find a way of curing people of this horrible affliction....what i am saying is that isn't the way to go about it. People are gay for a variety of interacting principals which doctors already recognize, physical and psychological. Hormones in my mind dont affect sexual orientation directly, and only indirectly in that they make the person more comfortable with their body and expressing attraction
ajester23 1 year ago
@ajester23
Yes, but do you have evidence that hormones don't affect it directly? I've never come across any studies on whether sexual orientation can be altered by hormone therapy, but anecdotal reports from trans people indicate that it's not out of the question. At this point, we can only conclude that we don't really know.
I agree that humanity would probably be better off without the ability to manipulate or "cure" gender and sexual variance, but that doesn't mean it isn't possible.
Wosbachia 1 year ago
@Wosbachia from what i've read it appears that hormones influence sexual orientation possibly in the beginning stages of development in the womb. sexual orientation has a different brain chemistry depending on whether you are homo, hetero, or bi..
ajester23 1 year ago
(cont.) When I made that video, it was originally intended only for facebook friends, and I posed the question to promote some dialogue. I do worry sometimes that posing provocative questions can be taken out of context, e.g., generate fear in some guys that transition might somehow make them different people entirely. But I think it's important to talk about this stuff, and I appreciate your doing that with me.
postgender 1 year ago
@postgender ya no problem...thanks for continuing the dialogue....i agree that dialogue is super important because its not a black n white issue [well nothing ever really is]...thanks for promoting talking about it...
ajester23 1 year ago
You're a cool guy, Adam. Thanks for this response. I agree with you in many respects. I'm also squeamish about the idea that our medical treatments can sway sexuality. But I do wonder about the role of hormones in desire, and how that opens us up to possibilities. I also think that being trans forces us to interrogate both gender and sexuality to a degree that most people don't experience. (cont.)
postgender 1 year ago