What is something you learned or experienced from being trans that you wish you knew pre-transition, or that you wish cis people knew?
I’ll go first: the temperature differences when going from testosterone-dominance to estrogen-dominance is not just real but significant, my body just puts out less heat and I feel colder much easier now even when otherwise maintaining a high metabolism, eating in excess, etc.
It may have just been my trans denial before, but I really wanted to believe that the difference was not that great and I was wrong.
What’s something you wish people knew?
The only time I experienced a sensitivity to the cold was during a short period where I think I was a little anemic. Estrogen has definitely made me more sensitive, but I such a ridiculous starting point that I still have cold tolerance. Funnily, a cis person brought up how me (and two others who were in shorts+Tshirt) were warm because of T (I hadn’t come out to her yet).