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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

cis guy on hrt

Why would they be on hrt

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The same reason anyone would be: because their current body doesn't match their gender identity and they want to change that. This person just happened to start inside the same arbitrary social category as their destination.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm confused

The word cisgender (often shortened to cis; sometimes cissexual) describes a person whose gender identity corresponds to their sex assigned at birth, i.e., someone who is not transgender.

If they're taking hrt it sounds like they'd want to change their gender

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just as some AMAB (Assigned Male At Birth) men want to look more masculine and will work out at the gym or take testosterone supplements, some AMAB men are femboys and may temporarily take feminizing HRT to look less masculine.

Both are trying to change their bodies to better fit their gender identity, and femboy is clearly a different identity from gym bro, but they are both male gender identities.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What hormones would a gym fembroy take though?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Answer is still HRT, and a femboy would probably have a very different exercise routine than a gym bro in terms of areas they'd want to work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What would some of those reasons be?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Low to no sexdrive and they want to have one

Trying to stop or slow down the progression of male pattern baldness

Loss of muscle mass.

To fix low testosterone

Maybe they are not trans but want to be more feminine looking.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

maybe they're a twitch streamer