#cissies — Public Fediverse posts on home.social

There is this talk about #depression resulting from the use of 5α-reductase inhibitors (aka #Finasteride and #Dutasteride), which is of course a serious concern, but the studies that DIYHRT.market links are both about the use by #cis men not about the use by #trans women, which makes me question to what extend the results are applicable to us:

“ The findings support a growing impression that finasteride is associated with adverse psychiatric effects that can persist in association with sexual dysfunction after discontinuing finasteride treatment. ” — https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33814544/

I mean: If the reason for depression is a reduction in sexual function, than I wonder whether this is just a case of #cissies wanting to top in penetrative sex or are unhappy about a low sex-drive, the former of which is at least for me not really all that much of a concern, whereas the later is a feature… And I figure there might be quite a few other #transfem s sharing those sentiments…

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