20-04-2014, 11:09 PM
In addition to being transgender, I must have some French in me as well. 
I prefer to define transitioning as doing some or all of the following: breast augmentation or reduction, SRS, complete overhaul of the wardrobe and coming out to family and friends. Anything short of that should (in my opinion) have a term of it's own so there's no confusion about what a person is doing. And just to go a little further, I'd say that NBE is a form of HRT but HRT is not synonymous with NBE. HRT (in my personal dictionary) implies consuming pharmaceutical's made in laboratories while NBE would include dietary supplements found in nature without extensive alterations or purification's. ...This all, purely my own unsolicited thoughts on the matter... Take it or leave it at will.
To answer to OP, I don't think you'll permanently alter your body chemistry no matter how long you take PM but it might change your mind about yourself or give you a different perspective on the world as it has certainly done for me.
I prefer to define transitioning as doing some or all of the following: breast augmentation or reduction, SRS, complete overhaul of the wardrobe and coming out to family and friends. Anything short of that should (in my opinion) have a term of it's own so there's no confusion about what a person is doing. And just to go a little further, I'd say that NBE is a form of HRT but HRT is not synonymous with NBE. HRT (in my personal dictionary) implies consuming pharmaceutical's made in laboratories while NBE would include dietary supplements found in nature without extensive alterations or purification's. ...This all, purely my own unsolicited thoughts on the matter... Take it or leave it at will.To answer to OP, I don't think you'll permanently alter your body chemistry no matter how long you take PM but it might change your mind about yourself or give you a different perspective on the world as it has certainly done for me.