Also, how did he even get a hold of estrogen? I'm no doctor but I would imagine that you can't just buy estrogen over the counter. I would think it's a perscription drug given to women going through menopause and stuff like that, not morbidly obese men in their 30s. I think estrogen is more likely to just accelerate whatever health problems he already has.
You sorta can. Contrapoints, for example, wasn't diagnosed with anything. Hontra bought hormones over the internet from Republic of Vanuatu and later went to informed consent clinic. Jim could do the same. There's really no threshold but money and feeling like it anymore
Honest question: assuming he really is taking estrogen, how would being morbidly obese on top of that affect him? Are there any notable cases of fatasses trooning out? How did it turn out?
Being fat is a huge strain on your body, especially on cardiovascular system, taking estrogen makes it even worse (more so in transgender hormone therapy doses.
Just as an aside they constantly misuse hormone replacement therapy - that's something prescribed for menopausual women, what they get is tht - troon hormone therapy). Taking estrogen increases risk of blood clots and which can be even lethal (deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism etc), makes you bloated which is result of estrogen increasing water retention in your body, which also is not very good for your veins. and yes, it does make you fatter.
More on side effects. Another thing worth mentioning that even birth control, which is low dose compared to tht is strongly advised against if you're: 35+, smoking, drinking, sedentary lifestyle, overweigh - doesn't look too good for Jim does it? So, now that I think about it, taking estrogen IS punk in his case - slashing ~15 years and possible early grave for something so incredibly dumb and worthless even should it succeed is kind of punk
TL;DR: taking hormones is a stress even to a young and healthy person, Jim is neither
