Fuel

When you give trans people the right fuel it calms arousal patterns and settles them into themselves. After all when we are driven by identity this medicine aligns mind with body and soothes the turbulence of yearning; it is how hormone therapy becomes yet one more way to confirm who we are because if you take them in error you will know it soon enough.

Not all of us take HRT and for me it became a calculated risk after being advised by an endocrinologist it would be wiser not to given medical history. Plus I was always fearful to do do anything until I fully understood who I was. However, I can completely understand how for many the benefits of their power to align and to make welcome physical changes are life saving. This is especially true for those young enough to maximize their impact once they are certain enough and do so under expert medical supervision.

No, they do not make us any more trans because we have existed for millenia without them. However I am glad they are another tool in the arsenal to help us live more peacefully and authentically.