>>6137856
it helps immensely. definitely worth trying it and seeing how you feel after a few months

>>6137856
It help a bit with looking feminine but most of it is just learning how to look and act like a girl.

It'll eliminate acne and change fat distribution a bit... definitely gives some tits to play with but it doesn't just solve everything for you.

>>6137856
Only old hons who started too late say it's placebo/does nothing

>>6137856
It's painfully obvious that HRT has more than a placebo effect.

The effect it has on any individual, however, is mostly unknowable until they take it, and what effects manifest to what extent in what timeframe vary dramatically.

Some people do not receive the effects they desire, or at least not as much as they desire, and that hurts them. From my experience, it's a huge boon both to my appearance and sense of well-being, although to what extent those two are conflated is now largely impossible for me to separate.

HRT does a lot, its not magical, but it changes a lot. Why do you think it's considered such a huge decision by doctors?

The only people who say it doesn't work are bitter hons that need FFS. Hons are notorious for spreading disinfo.

As for mental changes? They will happen, they may be big or small but changing sex hormones will definitely change the way your brain works. For myself, I feel a lot less embarrassed by things, my self-esteem is more stable. I'm less aggressive, which is nice, hopefully that continues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sretVbbdpGo
This video sums it up pretty well.

>>6138374
I took my first pill today and already I feel way calmer.

>>6138374

In this case if a hon thought it didnt do much for her, they might assume thats the case for everyone, which is a fair but incorrect assumption. But if old hons are spreading disinfo that they know is false then fuck em.

If a hon is too old, say 50, would HRT at least help them mentally?

>>6137856
I wouldn't fuck around with my endocrine system unless I knew what I felt was dysphoria, and not depression/anxiety/special snowflake syndrome.

Threads like these aren't so different from the steroid threads in /fit/. Anybody who is on them will justify their behavior and recommend it to others.

>>6137856
>Does HRT help?
It helps trannies and people with hormonal disorders.

>And I see other people say it does nothing and is just a placebo
Well it's used as treatment for women going through menopause and people with hormonal issues from disorders or accidents, not just for trannies, so it does do something and isn't just a placebo.

>>6139238
>I wouldn't fuck around with my endocrine system unless I knew what I felt was dysphoria, and not depression/anxiety/special snowflake syndrome
That's why it's good to see a specialist to help you sort out your feels though some people even have issues of overly cautious doctors with less experience delaying transition due to things like depression/anxiety despite dysphoria being a factor in that depression/anxiety.

>>6139238
You should aim to be aware enough about your life to distinguish depression from disphoria. It's good to seek help and I'd think most people at least tried it (not always finding any kind of logical help, a lot of psychs just want to kick the issue as far as possible). At the end is a personal decisition, while you are hurting your body a los of things do that too. If you're okay with dying then it's not such a big deal.

>>6138374
I can never watch these videos.

I open it and hear the tranny voice in the first 3 seconds and then close it.

For me it's the former. Worked better than any antidepressant a week into it (then again I went from just taking spiro and having the exhaustion of no sex hormones and living on my own and having to clean cat shit, to going back to living in a mansion with my parents and being catered for and taking hormones that feel right, so mileage may vary)

>>6138374
There are a lot of unsubstantiated or purely anecdotal claims in that video about how hormones affect you mentally, but I agree with the overall message: hormones will unavoidably change you in some way (physically, directly mentally, and mentally as a result of the physical changes), and you shouldn't be worried about that, nor about "not being yourself anymore" as a result of the changes; you might be different but you'll still be "you". If you think about it a certain way you can reasonably consider that to be more accurate to "who you really are", or whatever, since if you consider yourself to be the gender you're transitioning to then it stands to reason that the mental effects of that sex's hormones are the "correct" ones for you (and the ones you're used to and worried about changing are the "incorrect" ones).

It's hard to separate the mental and behavioural changes as a result of the hormones directly and those as a result of becoming more comfortable with being presenting as your correct gender; it's probably both to some extent, but the way she talks about it it's far more the direct mental changes than I think is plausibly accurate.

What she says from 6:24 hits really hard too.

>>6140136
I don't think her voice is masculine; just deep. I think I was over-analysing it at first and expecting it to be bad but it sounded fine quickly and stayed that way.

>>6137856
It helps with some of the biological things. There is definitely placebo there and there's a relationship with testosterone and various mental disorders so that might be true too. Some of them have side effects that cause depression and suicidal ideation but overall they're beneficial.

You have to keep a critical eye on the people that sing the praise too high, they also shame people for being realistic.

I have seen physical changes. It has changed my thinking and emotions a lot. I never used to cry so much.