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Technically true. But "Wrong-sex hormones" still LESS incorrect than the standard term of "Hormone Replacement Therapy".Men and women, when young and healthy, both produce estrogen and testosterone... Therefore, describing transgender HRT as "wrong-sex hormones" is incorrect
The term "HRT" was originally an ACCURATE description of the estrogen given to menopausal women, when it literally IS "replacing" her natural hormones. Troons just appropriated that term, implying that the same hormones, when given to men, are somehow just "replacing" their natural hormone levels. Which I think is far MORE misleading, and feeding into "gender" ideiology's weird assumption that mtf's were "born in the wrong body", and were somehow "meant to" have female traits, including female hormone levels.
If there's some other, third term that's more accurate than both "HRT" and "wrong-sex hormones", that may be a better alternative.
But as it is, we only have those two options