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What an interesting read. I wonder, are these reports a reliable way to begin to understand what it feels like to be of the other sex? Insofar as such a thing is possible, of course. The anecdotes of smell and the sensation of powering up a hill are fascinating.

On a different note,

> At smoothbrains.net, we hold as self-evident the right to put whatever one likes inside one’s body;

I never thought of it that way, but I agree.



Yes, they're reliable. Source: I am trans femme, have spoken to many others who transitioned the opposite way (trans masc). We compare notes.


I mean no disrespect, but anecdotal evidence is not evidence.


You can certainly take notes on all that anecdata and use them to design some proper experiments! But until someone gets the resources and willpower together to do all of that, the anecdata is all the evidence we have.


When a male takes estrogen it doesn't undo a lifetime of male sex development and existing as a male, nor does it give him a female reproductive system. So how could taking estrogen grant him an understanding of what it feels like to be the opposite sex?


> But until someone gets the resources and willpower together to do all of that, the anecdata is all the evidence we have.

Still not evidence.




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