16-09-2014, 10:38 AM
Three or four years ago I was active on this forum. I believed I was a cross-dresser and that PM or some other herb would help me. I was wrong.
What PM did was stop me from lying to myself any longer.
I had always believed that I should have been female but I never believed it was possible. I knew that no doctor or therapist would ever believe me and I knew that society would never accept me. I had tried cross-dressing as a way of relieving my dysphoria and it partly worked but there was never a sexual or fetish element to it and at the back of my mind was that nagging belief that I should have been female.
So I tried PM. It made me feel that maybe a transition of sort was possible but what it really did was unloose that inner woman I kept restrained. The cork popped and out she came. I cried, had a breakdown and saw a shrink who told me that I needed to transition. I went onto full HRT, transitioned socially and I am now waiting for the surgeon's knife just after Xmas.
In terms of what is relevant to this discussion - if you always felt female, that you should have lived female then PM might lead you to transition. If you have no such inner demons then I doubt PM will lead to transition.
Having read a lot about the causes of transsexualism, I am in no doubt that it is caused by physiological differences in the brain due to insufficient masculinisation before birth. I feel that PM is sufficient to "trigger" the arrested development and allow it to proceed.
I know that there are people on here who identify as non-binary and they will undoubtedly have a different perspective and one I do not understand, but from my binary perspective my warning would be that if you are barely keeping the "inner woman" under control them PM will not help you. It is likely to do the exact opposite.
What PM did was stop me from lying to myself any longer.
I had always believed that I should have been female but I never believed it was possible. I knew that no doctor or therapist would ever believe me and I knew that society would never accept me. I had tried cross-dressing as a way of relieving my dysphoria and it partly worked but there was never a sexual or fetish element to it and at the back of my mind was that nagging belief that I should have been female.
So I tried PM. It made me feel that maybe a transition of sort was possible but what it really did was unloose that inner woman I kept restrained. The cork popped and out she came. I cried, had a breakdown and saw a shrink who told me that I needed to transition. I went onto full HRT, transitioned socially and I am now waiting for the surgeon's knife just after Xmas.
In terms of what is relevant to this discussion - if you always felt female, that you should have lived female then PM might lead you to transition. If you have no such inner demons then I doubt PM will lead to transition.
Having read a lot about the causes of transsexualism, I am in no doubt that it is caused by physiological differences in the brain due to insufficient masculinisation before birth. I feel that PM is sufficient to "trigger" the arrested development and allow it to proceed.
I know that there are people on here who identify as non-binary and they will undoubtedly have a different perspective and one I do not understand, but from my binary perspective my warning would be that if you are barely keeping the "inner woman" under control them PM will not help you. It is likely to do the exact opposite.