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Born ready (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/lgbtq_plus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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[–] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I can't speak to how hormones affect people generally, but looking at how my father behaves (and is a MAGA disciple and Trump worshipper) I'm terrified of becoming more like him.

Every person is different, and based on my heritage, I have some scary ideas of who I might have been via small nudges of destiny or biology.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    We're so much more as people than our biology.

    My father is a "MAGA disciple" as you put it. I'm not, my uncle isn't, and his father wasn't either. Seems like neither ancestry or testosterone mattered there. Frankly I don't think anything short of a absolutely debilitating head injury could change me enough to support Trump.

    I've had a few friends transition, and they're still themselves. Still the people I've always know. Sure little things can change, but your core identity as a person isn't measured by hormones.

    Also worth considering you're doing this under a doctor's care. You're not an pro-athlete or bodybuilder buying testosterone from the back of a van and absolutely slaming the stuff. That's basically the only scenario where taking testosterone would really change you, but even then you'd just be angry not have a complete shift in ideology.

    Either way testosterone doesn't make you or anybody else a Republican. One area Trump gained a lot of votes last year was from white women specifically.

    I guess this is all to say trust that you are you and don't let Republican shitheads convince you that roughly half of the population is terrible

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    The facets about your father than you find bad are not about being "male", even as I wager he asserts it to be.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    I've realized that IRL there are no character traits we want a man to have but not a woman, and vice versa. This is the train of thought that leads me to gender abolition, at least for myself.

    Masculinity no longer means anything positive, and the popular folk who assert that it means something insist that it means things that I find objectionable, and who behave in ways that are objectionable, themselves.

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