6 Responses to “Im a 23 year old tg mtf, im getting ready to start estrogen, do i also need to take an anti testostrone pill?”

1. Judy
   March 14th, 2010 @ 12:07 am

   Ask your doctor.

   Please do not self-medicate. The drugs which are used in HRT have potentially harmful side effects. A combination of drugs at certain dosages may be right for one person and harmful or lethal for another person.

2. Rory
   March 14th, 2010 @ 12:07 am

   Yes, you will need an anti-androgen, but your doctor should explain all of that to you.

3. Diane
   March 14th, 2010 @ 12:07 am

   This is a question you should really be asking your endocrinologist, or the Doctor who is prescribing your hormone therapy.

   You ARE getting your hormones from a Doctor, aren’t you?

4. PetroGuy
   March 14th, 2010 @ 12:07 am

   The term that you should be using to describe yourself is a transsexual woman or transwoman, not a transgender woman. Persons who make the decision to **permanently** transition from one physical gender to the other are ‘transsexual’. Persons who **do not** make the decision to permanently transition from one physical gender to the other may be ‘transgendered’ but are not necessarily ‘transsexual’. Past a certain point in your hormonal gender transition, the changes your body undergoes will become permanent ones.

   I assume you have been cleared for hormonal transition on the recommendation of a psychologist or gender identity therapist, or an experienced and knowledgeable mental health professional. I also assume you have had a physical and laboratory examination by a doctor with experience in hormonal gender transition who sees no physical or biochemical barriers to your transition.

   If neither of these has occurred, I hope you don’t plan on self medication. Self medication is a dangerous practise that could hurt you, harm you or even kill you. Secondly, without a valid prescription for female sex hormones from a knowledgeable and competent medical practitioner, any attempt to obtain oestrogen would have to be from the ‘black market’. Hormones from irregular sources, such as internet pharmacies, can cause as just as much harm to you.

   I won’t even try to tell you whether you need to use androgen blocking medication in conjunction with female sex hormones. That is a question that only a medical doctor can answer after careful consideration of all risk factors that apply to your situation. Just know that any drugs which alter your body’s natural hormonal balance unless properly administered and monitored, can cause unwanted and dangerous side effects.

   Please bring this issue up with the doctor who is, or is planning to prescribe the hormones for your transition. I think your physician should be the person who plans your medication regimen, after discussing the situation with you. Not a Y!A answerer.

5. Erica - in the pipe, 5 x 5
   March 14th, 2010 @ 12:07 am

   Don’t ask us, ask your doctor or endocrinologist. Different people require different regimes, and taking the wrong drugs, or the wrong quantities can have serious side-effects - like death!

6. Paula Jenel
   March 14th, 2010 @ 12:07 am

   As everyone has said. Ask your Doctor

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