Again, trying to buck “The Science” when you are bound and determined to be the other human binary sex than when you were born (and not assigned, just observed to be such), you’ll have issues. Like here (reformatted):
Related: Bad News ‘Ladies’ (Cough-Cough) – Estrogen Therapy Might Make Your Prostate Cancer Worse
Hey, Mx. Transwomynx, Got a Prostate? Then Guess What?
…It isn’t what a transwoman doesn’t have. It’s all about the organ that they DO have – that a “woman” doesn’t. Again, being a biologist, I’m not clear as to why I didn’t think of this before – or others. That would be the organ for which almost all men hate going to a doctor for an annual exam. I’ll tell you, I absolutely HATE it every time. Yep, after, after that “SNAP” of the glove, the next thing you hear is “bend over ” as the doc checks your prostate.
YOUR PROSTATE! And it is generally, for me, not a comfortable exam. I’ll leave the details to the reader. So it is real, and…it is exclusively a male organ (just not the one that most people think of as being part of maleness in this whole transgender mashup). Women don’t have it – and can’t, just like men can’t have ovaries and uteruses (uteri?). So, the next time you hear the denial argument that not all women can give birth, as they try to rationalize that they are a woman, ask them if they have a prostate.
Then watch them either glower at you or puddle up.
But if they just go back to the hollow talking point of “I AM A WOMAN, look at my [fake] boobies and my [fake] ‘down there’!”, ask that question. Then ask them this: “So you like giving yourself a higher risk of prostate cancer?”. Yep, there is because mixing hormones between sexes is not exactly a great thing to do (reformatted, emphasis mine):
UC San Francisco study: Hormone therapy could mask prostate cancer risk in trans women
In a reported “first-of-its-kind” study in the U.S., researchers at the University of California San Francisco have determined that transgender women have a “small but meaningful” prostate cancer risk. In a reported “first-of-its-kind” study in the U.S., researchers at the University of California San Francisco have determined that transgender women have a “small but meaningful” prostate cancer risk.
The study, “Prostate Cancer in Transgender Women in the Veterans Affairs Health System, 2000-2022” published in the Journal of the American Medical Association late last week, points out that “transgender women retain their prostate even after gender-affirmation surgery and thus remain at risk of prostate cancer.”
Yep, remove the tree trunk and its fruit, and you still have that walnut left. And it can go bad. Now, this next bit seems to refute what was just said but just wait a bit:
However, researchers found incidences of the disease were lower in transgender women than cisgender males, partly due to “gender-affirming” treatments such as hormone therapy. Estrogen, for example, has a “suppressive effect” on the development of prostate cancer and thus can lead to misleading “normal” readings of the PSA — prostate specific antigen — cancer-screening test.
Which tells me that if it is throwing off the regular diagnostic tests, you’re playing with fire. Do you see it, is it there, or is it hiding in some corner too well? I don’t care what sex you are but if you have chosen to bathe your internal organs in hormones that aren’t normally yours BECAUSE you generally don’t (at least in sufficient quantities to be that which you’re deluding yourself over).
For trans women, estrogen use could cause overall lower levels of PSA, making the screening tool even less effective and potentially increasing the risk of false negatives. It’s possible doctors will need to adjust how they apply PSA results for trans women on estrogen, the study authors said.
There were also signs in the study results that trans women who have taken estrogen can develop more advanced prostate cancer than cisgender men by the time it is identified, suggesting diagnosis delays for the women, though more research is needed to better understand what’s happening.
Biological Russian Roulette (even if with smallish calibers). So now we can add all of the other biological ailments that come along with “gender-affirming” stuff that, to be perfectly honest, seems to be a way to mess up yourself.
