They will NOT decrease your beard or influence your voice. They WILL slowly but surely affect your attitudes toward life, love, and the world around you. They WILL weaken the drive and ambition that helps make your family secure. They WILL cause you to become sig- nificantly more emotional- -a "no-no" for a man. They WILL affect your judgement and ability to make sound business decisions. They WILL cause gynecomastia (male breast development) to some degree, usually dependent on your own hereditary patterns. This will prevent you from appearing in public at the beach, or from boating or going to the local health spa or will embarrass you in front of your company or family doctor. They WILL increase the lard on your bottom slightly, very slightly. They WILL increase the rate of your natural loss of physical strength and endurance. They WILL clear up some acne conditions and that is about the best thing that can be said. They may also, as in one case I know of personally, cause cysts to form in the breast tissue. If taken in sufficient quantities, they reduce sex drive to zero, cause partial or complete impotence and sometimes definite pain during any type of arousal.

The one saving grace has to be mentioned in fairness to the loyal opposition. The effects of taking these hormones is not lasting, IN MOST CASES, until several years have elapsed. Potency can return. Gyneco- mastia will reduce; but what about other types of damage which may have occurred to your family relationship or to your body? Is it worth the risk?

So, unless you are operation bound, why bother? Even the plastic surgeons are in favor of falsies as opposed to the implant operation, and that is a lucrative business.

So, you've all read this but you are going to take, or continue to take them anyway? O.K. It's your life and suppose you are a potential TS. Have you lived as a woman 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, moved socially as a woman at work, in church, or perhaps in a bowling league? In other words, do you pass-EASILY?? Are you effeminate looking dressed as a man? Do you HATE having male genitalia? Do you think you would be at ease receiving a male lover if you had the proper equipment, even though you may not now be engaging in relationships with another male? That's right—ANOTHER MALE! You will ALWAYS DE MALE, regardless of how you look or act or feel. There is no such thing as sex change, only sex re-assignment. Surgery cannot make you either female OR feminine. Can you live with that knowledge? You can be re-constructed, just like adding a

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