It's just like the "gender euphoria" thing. Neither women nor men have any incredible, mystical experiences as a result of being accepted as their natural gender or steeped in their natural sex hormones or using their non-mutilated genitals.
You just are what you are, going through each ordinary day like everybody else. Only degenerate fetishists think the opposite sex derives quasi-religious experiences from simply existing.
If I was a therapist treating gender dysphoria (in an alternative universe where that wouldn't get me in trouble professionally or charged with a crime) I think a good technique would be to tell the client to walk down a semi-crowded street and simply observe the first 10 members of the opposite sex who walk past. Add them up, note their age, weight, appearance, etc. Just concentrate on what
the average person looks and acts like.
People have a tendency to overestimate hypothetical choices and paths, especially if they're unhappy in general. If a man who is unfulfilled in life is looking back wondering what would happen if his high school garage band hadn't split up, he's going to fantasize about turning into a rock star. He's not going to think "If I had never quit music, I would have ended up as a middle-aged broke guy with a cirrhotic liver playing in a middlingly popular cover band," even though the latter is statistically far more likely.
Gender dysphoria usually involves that exact kind of flawed thinking, a fat socially awkward 30 year old male never imagines that he could have been a fat socially awkward 30 year old woman, he thinks he would have been a gorgeous social butterfly.
Of course by the time they actually transition, most troons are way past that point and their dysphoria has turned into a dissociation tool/maladaptive daydreaming. In any case, therapy isn't allowed to help them and society as a whole cheers them on as they make terrible choices
She thinks that because she's fat her breasts look male:
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Jesus. How the hell does T make you gain weight?! Yes, they are probably all sedentary and live on junk, but presumably they did that before testosterone, so let's assume it is not entirely bullshit.
Higher T seems to be associated with metabolic syndrome in women but I won't pretend to understand how/why it would work in FtMs
The role of testosterone in the development of visceral adiposity was supported by an investigation of healthy middle-aged Australian white women which found that baseline bioavailable testosterone, and change in bioavailable testosterone, predicted accumulation of VF [visceral fat] 5 years later (
20). Estradiol or its change were not significantly related to VF (
20). The impact of bioavailable testosterone on VF was further supported by a clinical trial, where administration of a weak androgen (nandrolone decanoate) resulted in an increase of VF in obese white women (
21).
Also makes me think about how notoriously ravenous teenage boys are, especially soon after puberty really kicks in. Maybe there's something in a sudden T increase that makes the body think "Neat, looks like I'm going to be growing in height and muscle mass, so I better turn on the hunger" but then those messages are being sent to short girls who spend 14 hours a day sitting in front of a computer.