Testosterone gives transmen incontinence, bladder & bowel problems

[MrsOvertonsWindow]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/26/trans-problems-urinary-bowel-incontinent-young-detransition/

The Telegraph reporting on worrying data showing that young women who've been persuaded that they've been "born in the wrong body" and are on cross sex hormones are experiencing major problems from their use with 95 per cent developing pelvic floor dysfunction.

"Around 87 per cent of the participants had urinary symptoms such as incontinence, frequent toilet visits and bed-wetting, while 74 per cent had bowel issues including constipation or being unable to hold stools or wind in. Some 53 per cent suffered from sexual dysfunction".

And our sainted NHS have been contributing to this without conducting any research.

What UK patient protection regulator is actually stepping in right now to stop this avoidable harm to women and to rectify this medical scandal by sanctioning those providing the access or advice regarding testosterone?

My sister transitioned around 5 years ago and now has stage 4 cancer. Everyone insists that it isn't related to the testosterone, but it's hard not to wonder.

Really sorry to hear this - I also have a female family member who transitioned recently, plus she's very overweight and middle-aged, and I'm really worried about the health implications of the testosterone.

I think the explosion of trans-identifyng younger females should now provide a clear study cohort for the coming years and decades - though of course we do know a good deal already from the sports doping effects, and it's not good.

Until you can identify features of brains that relate to a specific sex you can’t say homosexual brains are like those of the opposite sex

what features mark out the female brain ( before any nurture induced changes have occurred )

Have you read the articles I cited about gay people's brains?

This article also explains the differences well.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/jun/16/neuroscience.psychology

@AliasGrace47 Those 'studies' are pseudoscience. It's just not true. It's an absolute LIE. You've been conned by lies.

https://theconversation.com/you-dont-have-a-male-or-female-brain-the-more-brains-scientists-study-the-weaker-the-evidence-for-sex-differences-158005

Remembering the null hypothesis when searching for brain sex differences
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10854110/

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/feb/24/meet-the-neuroscientist-shattering-the-myth-of-the-gendered-brain-gina-rippon

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28582-scans-prove-theres-no-such-thing-as-a-male-or-female-brain/

Scientists can reach different conclusions without being con artists, liars or pseudoscientists.

    I will reread them all tonight but I don't think they were any of those things 

Fwiw, Gina Rippon's research has been challenged.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=quillette.com/2019/03/29/denying-the-neuroscience-of-sex-differences/%23:~:text%3DRippon%2520tries%2520to%2520convince%2520you,This%2520is%2520false.&ved=2ahUKEwiF_Jv33a-PAxXBUkEAHSXaO7oQFnoECBoQBQ&usg=AOvVaw1gJYSgJ-TP_ZE7tE-AXe8c

I asked for innate

our brains develop and various parts and aspects get enhanced because of the world we live in and our experiences

transwomen and women for example also have brain similarities- the area of the brain that stores trauma responses - women and transwomen and soldiers of either sex

Oh look! Squirrel!

What the heck has this got to with testosterone being harmful to women?

Humans can't change sex. Men must stay out of women's spaces.

I am strongly GC and I do not want to distract or argue against the effects of T. But given I was challenged quite aggressively by someone who seemed to think acknowledging average sex differences in the brain was tantamount to sexualising children, I was entitled to defend myself.

A reminder that this thread details the appalling harm happening to young women's bodies because of their mistaken belief that a sex change is possible and will cure their considerable mental health issues. From the link in the OP:

"....young women who've been persuaded that they've been "born in the wrong body" and are on cross sex hormones are experiencing major problems from their use with 95 per cent developing pelvic floor dysfunction.
"Around 87 per cent of the participants had urinary symptoms such as incontinence, frequent toilet visits and bed-wetting, while 74 per cent had bowel issues including constipation or being unable to hold stools or wind in. Some 53 per cent suffered from sexual dysfunction".

More evidence for sex differences on average.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jnr.v95.1-2/issuetoc?ref=quillette.com

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-03-clues-brain-differences-males-females.html?ref=quillette.com

https://www.pnas.org/content/113/14/E1965.short?ref=quillette.com

https://www.pnas.org/content/113/14/E1965.short?ref=quillette.com

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2657466?ref=quillette.com

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/hbm.24462?ref=quillette.com

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4227509/?ref=quillette.com

Oh for heaven's sake.

A brain in a male body is male. A brain in a gay male body is male. No amount of similarities makes it female-like.
It's like those who count numbers of genes and tell us we are similar to frogs.

The brain is in a sexed body. This does not make it a sexed brain. Soon we will have female hearts and female livers and female eyes.
Yes we have typical differences in development but these organs are not lady organs.

Can you explain what you're trying to prove here?

Male and female organs may have some differences due to chromosomes, hormones and body size. The brain is one of these organs. And?

It also means that, if you are presented with a single brain scan to look at, and no other information, it is not possible to identify it as male or female.

The differences are small and apparant only at a population level i.e. when taken on average, but the spread or variation overlaps hugely between the sexes.

It is not possible to use an individual's brain scan to "diagnose" being gay, or transgender, or male or female.

YouTube flagged this for me

I don't know anything about the YouTuber who posted it and he doesn't appear on the excerpt, just makes an off-screen comment at the start.

Claire is very brave. I thought she deserved to be seen more, even if it's just by a few women on MN.

That's terrifying and tragic. I know vaguely of one in real life. Since transitioning in her 30s she's developed serious facial adult acne and male pattern baldness. Which I thought was bad enough but the statistics about pelvic floor dysfunction resulting from these drugs is horrendous.

It's not surprising to hear the risks are being withheld from the patients since hard to countenance anyone willingly exposing themselves to this otherwise.