goatsarah
Apparently weird incel types think oestrogen is responsible for women’s sex drive.
I suspect it would blow their minds if they ever found out that the hormone most involved in making women horny is actually testosterone.
They act like we’re a different species or something. We all have the same set of receptors, more or less, guys. That’s why medical transition is even possible.
goatsarah
It gets worse for them. Estradiol, the main human oestrogen, is a metabolite of testosterone. The body makes it by converting testosterone into it. They are very, very similar molecules. The main difference is that testosterone has one carbonyl group and one hydroxyl group, and estradiol replaces that carbonyl with a second hydroxyl.
But anyway: implications for the poor super-straight, “women are a mysterious lovely feminine species” incel types are as follows: all that super feminine oestrogen came from nasty dirty masculine testosterone, and some of their own very male masculine “I love beer and farting” testosterone is routinely converted into sissy emasculating oestrogen (like, if it weren’t, they literally would not have a skeleton).
Oh, and if the idea of dating women with highish testosterone levels freaks them out, then the way to avoid that is to seek out trans women. Most of us post transition have almost none, and our oestrogen is usually produced from plant sources, going nowhere near any testicular-cooties action.
But we won’t sleep with them either. So sad.
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goatsarah
@A_C_McGregor I mean, this isn’t particularly advanced. It’s just “hypothalamus makes GnRH, pituitary receives GnRH and makes LH, gonads receive LH and make testosterone, testosterone encounters aromatise and turns into oestrogen, hypothalamus notices testosterone and oestrogen and makes less GnRH in response”
A makes B makes C makes D makes less A 🤷🏻♀️
Alisdair Calder McGregor
@goatsarah the reason the Terven are so insistent on "Basic Biology" as an argument is that they failed Advanced Biology.
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Alexandra Lanes
@goatsarah The big realisation for me was that none of these hormones actually do anything in themselves. They’re just messengers.
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Richard Gadsden
@goatsarah @ajlanes As long as it's not in the brain, then it's a neurotransmitter.
Adam
@po8crg @goatsarah @ajlanes even then, you still have hormones. neurotransmitters are defined functionally rather than geographically
Marc-André Delsuc
@goatsarah
To make it even funnier:
Hormones act thru "hormones receptors" which are proteins - coded in our genes as all proteins.
The testosterone receptor is actually coded on the X chromosome ( check at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgen_receptor ) - the female chromosome - which means that women have 2 copies of it while men only one !
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Llwynog
@goatsarah or TERFs who say that testosterone in trans men a) kills libido and b) it makes it impossible to orgasm. Tell me you've never spoken to any trans men without explicitly saying so 😂
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Llwynog
@goatsarah honestly, I know trans guys who, during the first months on T, got into trouble for missing lectures and being late to work because they were...busy 😅
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