Birth Control?

[Guest LillyJ]

So i return to the forum, after a whole lot of real life drama..

Anyways onto the question! Earlier i was having a somwhat silly convorsation with a friend of mine, about birth control, and the idea popped up to me, "what if someone who is biologically male started taking women's birth control?"

an odd thing to talk about with a friend i suppose, but yeah. any input?

[Guest Christy.dancer]

Sigh... my own two-cents worth -- you could get him to watch "The View" without snorting.

[Guest Donna Jean]

Honey.....

That wouldn't be a very good thing at all!

Women's birth control is Estrogens and female hormones of sorts and can have a VERY bad effect on someone taking them without a prescription!

They are prescribed on a per case basis and a woman will receive what is correct for her system.....

Otherwise it is illegal and dangerous!

How about that?

Do not arbitrarily take those.....very dangerous!

There ya go!

Donna Jean

[Guest leo]

well its female hormones

so u will start to grow breast etc all that shizzle

but at the same time could protential kill you...

[Guest Cait]

[Guest S. Chrissie]

I don't think birth control pills have enough "power" to change you, unless you pop in like more than a dozen per day?

I don't know though, that's based on my readings of the contents in the pills and in concentrate pills used in HRT.

Sherlyn

[Guest My_Genesis]

hmm....

I don't want to know.

That doesn't say much though, I also dont want to know what they'd do to me...

[Guest rachael1]

I guess he would lessen the chance of becoming pregnant.

Rachael

[Guest Leah1026]

"what if someone who is biologically male started taking women's birth control?"

Modern birth control have doses of estrogen that are waaayyy to low for our purposes. In fact some BCP's have no estrogen in them at all! It's true.

In regards to HRT: The only pratical path for transition is with a therapist and an endocrinologist with experience treating transsexual people.

[Guest AiAmAngel]

Nooooo hun, unless u hav NO other option...?

Birth control is ethynol estrogen (excuse spelling, summer brain ^.^)

testosterone kicks estrogens (rear end) and really wont feminize u w/out prolonged high dosages!

It'll b dangerous to ur liver in the "looooooooong" term so investigate other options^^ (cuz if u damage that liver now, u'll end up paying 40$ a week for transdermal estrogen when u start real hrt)

If u hav an anti-androgen then birth control if fine tho!

I say if ur abuv 16, wait it out cuz most of puberty is done

under 16? try and get your doctor behind u, *ask for confidentiality* but red lights are eye yellowing, dark purple patches of skin, ect!

If ur 18+, see a doctor!

[Guest kassiegurl]

I have been taking the "pill" for about a year now.

The reaosn i started is because i wanted to feel more femminine and more in touch with my female side.

I kinda cheated by having my friend get double perscritions and then having me take one off her.

So far all i have noticed is that i'm slightly more moody and have a really down patch when i stop taking them, i guess a bit like a period.

I dont know about thde health implications or anything like that, and i have never felt ill as a result of taking them once a day?

XX

Cassie

[Sally]

Cassie,

I don't know about the laws in the UK but here if you give someone a prescrition drug without a prescription it is viewed as dealing drugs and that is what your friend is doing and whoever is filling double prescriptions or wrting them is also viewed as a dealer of controled substances, so the risks aren't all just health.

Taking birth control pills without a prescription and a doctor to monitor is dangerous for women!

It will not feminize you enough, if at all, to be worth the risks.

Read up on the side effects, blood clots, heart attacks and strokes to name a few - get a doctor and do HRT the right and safer way!

Love ya,

Sally

[Guest sara w.]

I heard somthing called chemical somthing if you use a specific type of birth control and it lowers testosterone levels, they actually inject BC into pedophiles beacause the testosterone make them act the way they do, and its more humane than cutting off their testicles. If a trans person used it, it would have the same effect.

[Guest Leah1026]

I have been taking the "pill" for about a year now.

The reason i started is because i wanted to feel more femminine and more in touch with my female side.

I kinda cheated by having my friend get double perscritions and then having me take one off her.

So far all i have noticed is that i'm slightly more moody and have a really down patch when i stop taking them, i guess a bit like a period.

I dont know about thde health implications or anything like that, and i have never felt ill as a result of taking them once a day?

Your wasting your time, results will be minimal to nil.

HRT does not make you feel "more feminine" or "more in touch with my female side". Those are myths. Myths repeated endlessly by misguided cross-dressers.

Sorry to be blunt, but: Were you born transsexual or are you are cross-dresser? Your info on screen says "transsexual".

[Guest Joanna Phipps]

:angry:

kassiegurl

You have been told by several people here about the outright stupidity of what you did. If you are transsexual it is time to find a good gender counselor and get on a supervised HRT regimen, doing what you did can lead to many serious medical complications from liver damage and failure to death. Out of pure frustration I considered internet hormones but my counselor and shrink finaly got their butts in gear and I start HRT next month; however I was looking at 2mg Estradiol not BCP's.

If the risk of serious medical conditions doesnt scare you then consider this 30 x 2mg of Estradiol from walmart is 4$, liver failure, DVT or the like will cause you to have to use the patch witch is 40$ per month, that is if you can even continue with the transition. I dont know how old you are but it is always too young to risk the kind of medical problems you are risking by doing what you are doing.

Don't ruin the future

[Guest Joanna Phipps]

sorry kassie, just noticed i addressed that blast to the wrong person. It was aimed at LillyJ not you

[Guest Elizabeth K]

Well - good responses. Bith Control Pills are useless for feminization because of the dosage AND because if you use the ones designed for full 30/31 days, they have progesterone which actually impedes estorogen to an extent.

And if Birth Control Pills worked, doctor's would prescribe them instead of Primarin or Estadoil. And remember, it is the T-blockers as much as the estrogen that works with HRT.

So taking BC pills exposes you to risks, but provides little benefit.

Lizzy