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>Ordinary people take endocrine therapies all the time
Yes, to treat disorders that destroy their quality of life or endanger it. Not frivolously, based on their sexual attractions. Resorting to endocrine therapy, for human beings, usually is the last and final resort, when all the other attempts at adjusting the system have failed.
>You take finasteride for male pattern baldness,
And risk becoming impotent.
>women take HRT to alleviate menopause.
Women take Estrogen, not "HRT" and menopause cannot be "alleviated". Once it occurs, it's over and periods no longer occur, which signals the termination of their reproductive system and inability to effectively carry offspring to term. All of your knowledge of endocrinology is based on pop-science and all the hormones that you know of are androgens. But there's a lot more to the human hormonal makeup than androgens. And androgens, their presence, absence, excess or insufficiency affects them too and as such, the rest of the body too. They are the chemical system that regulates almost every aspect of our body and if one aspect of it falls out of balance, so does the rest of it. Getting onto HRT for "gender dysphoria" is the equivalent of giving yourself a mitigated form of AIDS, side effects of cancer therapies and kidney disease. For the rest of your life, because many changes that occur are often irreversible after the first couple years of therapy. It wrecks your bone density, your immune system, your mental capability (mood swings, emotional stability, resistance to stress and mental fatigue), it ruins the thyroid responses of t1-t4 and as I mentioned, deals grievous damage to kidneys. To cause this much damage to your body in pursuit of a sexual fetish is a form of self mutilation. This should neither be encouraged nor permitted as a wide-spread medical practice, this is the equivalent of fucking lobotomy procedures that used to be so popular to get rid of "Weird people" or shock therapies to treat PTSD.
