Endocrinologist explains how to discuss gender identity | Transgender hormone therapy

[@paintsnfun]

I’m a mtf transwoman who’s also a physician. I do a large amount of teaching about trans issues, etiology, treatment, etc. I love seeing videos like this.

[@mythornshaveroses6472]

I like how Jessica said that one of the best parts of your job is watching people bloom into themselves.

[@CharlotteBell-rl7lo]

I’m a recently transitioned mtf Transwoman. I am 58 and been on HRT for just over a month now. My Endocrinologist is Transgender specialist and she is a wonderful person. I just think it’s truly amazing when nice people re in this world that can truly understand and find ways to alleviate Gender Dysphoria and help through Hormone Therapy. Thank you for this vide. What you do really does help, and save lives.

[@josephbelisle5792]

What a great non nonsense, fact based and evenly delivered interview. Well done by the both of you. I knew I was female when I was 2. I didnt have the words for it but I felt anxiety over the future that my family might get it wrong. By 3 I was dressing myself appropriately because my family was getting it wrong. It was tolerated for a little while but i kept on insisting I cant wear the clothes given me. I kept taking my sisters clothes. When they forced me to recognize I had a male genetalia the universe collapsed on me. I felt utterly betrayed by existence. It started a scream in my head that has never gone away. My fathers response to my trauma was to traumatize me further to cure me of being me. Here I am in late middle age. Suffering from severe CPTSD (there was plenty of other traumas at that time), in trauma therapy, my 'egg broke'. I am as 100% sure now, as I was then, that who I am, my mind, my brain, whatever you want to call what it is that you are in your head, I am female. I dont want to be any female. I want to be just me, female. I may have been born wih the wrong body, but I know I am a woman. Not a girl. Not a young woman. Not a middle aged woman. I am a late middle age woman. I just want my rights to life, liberty and happiness. As throughout my life, I want to cause as little harm to everyone else and respect the rights of others as mine should be respected. I just want my truth. I just want to finally be me. Great video.

[@AlmaMia-w7y]

I was really nervous thinking how be a real kathoey and my friends helped me dressed up as a girl and guys started to make me feel better

[@Castle6064]

Wonderful video. So much information delivered very sensitively. Thank you both so much

[@davefitzgerald5334]

I think I must be non binary. Somewhere in between really. I don't really think I am a transgender woman as such. I don't dress in female clothes every day . Sometimes I am comfortable in my own biological skin the way I was born. 5 months now on estrogen hormones . Serene, peaceful, happy, and religious. God bless. Peace and love from Marisa / Dave

[@barryledgister4496]

So you don`t think you`re a `transgender woman`, but you`re 5 months on estregen? If you`re `non-binary`, why go on estregen? You`re `non-binary` but obviously trying to present as a `woman`. See what nonsense it all is?

[@SusanWillan]

Do i have to take an anti androgen with my HRT estrogen im also on methadone for cronic pain from an accident when I just take estrogen HRT with my methadone i have real trouble peeing and get really bad fluid retention when I just take my methadone nothing else everything works well when I pee my old endocrinologist didn't know what methadone was

[@MrZombieslayer19]

What's the stats on suicidally? Any psychologist follow up post treatment?

[@ZONE-fj8ly]

I doubt you could find this in someone's bloodstream or anywhere else in the human body to give some treatments to prevent them from committing suicide. It is not as if you could surgically remove, stitch or perform a transplant to improve their health. Normally you would need proper exercises, dietary and good rests to be in a healthy state.

[@randmorf]

Stats on suicides related to transition (or of being denied transition) are not well documented. In most cases it is reported as the number of people who have attempted suicide, with females being a lot less successful than biological males in getting the job done. After the UK closed down Travestock, they went over those records and found (as my fuzzy memory recalls) of over 30,000 patients only 2 or 3 commited suicide while waiting to be transitioned, so the suicide rate is pretty low. From other discussions on this topic, doctors and therapists have stated that the actual suicide rates are comparable to other people who suffer from depression, anxiety and other mental comorbities that often underlie the mental need for transitioning in Trans people. And while WPATH educated health professionals will tout figures like a 40% suicide rate, then if this is true, why haven't we heard this in the news??? The reason WPATH tells Trans health professional to tell the parents of Trans identified children that their kid is ar high risk of suicide is to emotionally blackmail the parents to go along with the Trans medicalization process. The statement I guarantee you will hear is ‘Do You Want a Dead Son or a Live Daughter?’ [MtF trans] or ‘Do you want a Dead Daughter or a Live Son?’ [FtM Trans]. Yes, that is nothing less than emotional blackmail. Don't believe it. Do not believe anything WPATH, Trans activists, or Trans affirmative care "health professionals" tell you. Move to Florida ASAP.

[@jasonmehlhorn4359]

Her business sounds profitable. $$$$$$$

[@sophiepooks2174]

Why do you object to capitalism? This woman studied for many years, then got payed nothing as an intern for years, at the same time having to pay off her student debt, endocrinologists also analyze and help people with cancer and other disorders got a problem with that too?

[@jasonmehlhorn4359]

@@sophiepooks2174 So you're calling people with "gender identity" issues as having "disorders"? Btw, even Marx said communism needed to operate for profit, so I don't know why you think I was objecting to capitalism.

[@liskl5982]

Should all preteens get puberty blockers until their brains catch up? No joking. It was an awful time for me and many others. The amount of misbehavior and cruelty among that age group is awful.

[@hakerem]

Everybody's fancy.

[@BelissaCohen]

It's completely appalling that this medical professional transed her own son at 3 1/2! Just appalling. Most of the time children transed this young showed early signs of what the mother thought was homosexual tendencies, and they're transing away the gay. The vast majority of these kids, if not affirmed, grow up to be LGB. Don't transe them, let the be GAY!

[@summermermaidstar756]

None of which you said are backed up by any evidence.

[@summermermaidstar756]

in fact the rate of true detrans is only 2.5 percent, we have higher regret rates for chemotherapy

[@BelissaCohen]

@@summermermaidstar756 Those are fake statistics manufactured out of thin air, on no data. There is no data because neither the US nor the UK keeps any records of who is medicalized, how, and the outcome, and they don't keep any records of who detransitions. Also, all the studies except for the Swedish study, as it's known, loses the majority of patients to followup. Only the Swedish study followed EVERYONE who medicalized in Sweden, a very progressive study. People who have medicalized do not go back to their provider and tell the provider the outcome. I spent the day with several detransitioners today at the First Do No Harm event at the American Academy of Pediatrics conference in Anaheim. Speeches by Chloe Cole, Cat Cattinson, Abel Garcia, and I had detransitioned friends there who don't speak publicly. None of their data has ever been collected. So stats of detranstion are made up, based on nothing. There are about 40K people on the detrans Reddit, and the number is growing monthly.

[@BelissaCohen]

@@KA-in6sx Oh, why do you say that? Perhaps you can explain your POV.

[@randmorf]

Sounds to me like Zwiener must suffer from "Munchausen by proxy" which is a psychological disorder marked by attention-seeking behavior by a caregiver (usually the mother) through those who are in their care. Some children (especially young children) that are presented as being Trans by their mothers actually are victims of Munchausen by proxy (MSP).