Ask a transsexual anything

[TaraJo]

Have you ever considered a diet that offered more of the estrogen type hormone? Perhaps more hormone-laden meat and meat by-products?
I am actually against all pharmaceuticals for myself, but I realise that your needs are not mine. There are plants that produce a hormone that is quite similar to estrogen.

If you're talking about phyto-estrogen, the body doesn't process that nearly as well as it does animal based estrogens. In fact, before I got started, I saw phytoestrogen pills at a WalMart and I was tempted to get them. Then I looked them up online and found out they don't really help much past a little relief of some of the symptoms of menopause.

I can't imagine meat having a high enough concentration of estrogen to have any significant effect on me. I know premarin is pretty close to a natural source of estrogen since it's made from pregnant horse urine (that's where it gets its name from), but I've also heard there are other risks that go up with premarin, most notably breast cancer.

And, do you have any type of illness like diabetes that you have to contend with also?

Not really, no.

You say that you're a MtF and your bf is a FtM.
Love is love, and it would have appeared that you 2 were "made" for each other. Could you have still loved him if you both stayed the gender you were born as?

When I think back to who I was before, how I felt before, how I acted before, I can't see me having a healthy relationship with anyone. And I just don't see him being attracted to me when I was all manly and stuff. He really likes girls and he's a breast guy, so without them, I'm far less attractive to him. But were I to go back and start living as a guy now? At this point, I think our bond is past the physical so that if I could manage to live as a guy and stay psychologically sound, we would probably stick together.

As for me with him, I can date either guys or girls just fine.