Sophia Dalke | Pittsburgh City Paper

Member since Apr 6, 2015

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    Sophia Dalke on 04/06/2015 at 2:05 PM
    @ Treison

    There are reasons to be in Canada, their draconian approach to trans care is not one of them. My own early transition timeline was 5 months part time > 2 months full time no hormones > 1 month inhibitors only > full HRT scaled over time. The predicate was simply going to my therapist, saying I'm full time and I want hormones. Therapist writes an endocrinologist: 'give her hormones' and done.

    @ Heather

    I'm half a year in on a twice daily regimen of estradiol, medroxyprogesterone and spironolactone with less than half my previous ambient testerone level and I'm still fully functional. Hormones *can* cause erectile dysfunction, and indeed it's pretty common, but it's not guaranteed.