So a lot of the changes that are introduced by taking estrogen sound pretty cool. Kinda goes without saying in this community, but I’ll say it anyway, and you can’t stop me.
- Softer skin (fuck yeah)
- Bodyhair growing thinner (fuck yeah)
- New bodyfat gets placed where other women have it too (actual shape-shifting, how cool is that)
- Reduction in testicular volume (does that mean they won’t be in the way all the time anymore? Sounds great, actually. Fuckers only exist to get squished when I want to sleep on my side. Absolute design flaw.)
What I’m not quite understanding yet is the effects on muscle mass.
Do you lose existing muscle mass?
Do you decrease the potential for future muscle growth?
Or is it both, even?
Either way, I guess I’ll shift more focus to lower-body excercises to counter-act my shoulders. The Glutes are by far some of the most important muscles in the history of humankind, after all.
So anyway, I hope you’re all doing good, and have a nice weekend
You can retain some of the muscle mass you already have if you keep using your muscles but some of it will be lost. New muscle growth will be harder since testosterone helps grow muscle and with the testosterone level of a woman it will be harder to grow muscle and you won’t be able to grow as much muscle as a man.
This website lists all the possible changes that come with HRT: https://genderdysphoria.fyi/en/second-puberty-fem
They really had to rub it in, huh
Jokes aside, that explains it more, thank you.
Most sources just state reduction in mass and/or reduction in growth without going into any detail, so that was a lot more helpful than what I previously found.