Pip Rasmussen

Like it's really, really fascinating.

And I feel like my symptoms are kind of almost like mild compared to other people.

But this is what Nicole sent in to us.

So like we were saying before as well, Dee, like taking medication is definitely something, or hormones in general.

um is something that like a lot of our queer fam told us about in the dms and i was actually watching euphoria i don't know if you're watching like the new season i am refusing to i'm hate watching it i just can't i think we should do like episodes i know i just can't anyway

I want to take down Sam Levinson.

Anyway, that's a different podcast for a different time.

But there's this obviously very famous character in it played by Hunter Schaefer, who is a trans woman.

And I was looking into like her history because there was a line that she said in the show where she was talking about how she got onto like blockers during puberty.

And I was like, oh, I wonder what Hunter Schaefer's experience of that was because I do think that she came out quite young.

Yeah.

and realized that she was trans.

And yeah, so she apparently did experience the initial stages of male puberty, which caused significant distress and gender dysphoria.

She began transitioning in the ninth grade, so around 14 years old, and with support was put on hormone blockers, which act as a pause button on puberty.

This is so fascinating because yeah, a lot of you have

had to go through puberty and realize that feeling of discomfort and not really feeling connected to your body or even sometimes betrayed by your body because you weren't getting on blockers or you were just still trying to figure things out.

And that is like an experience of puberty that I can't even imagine would be just so horrible to go through.

You know, the added layer of being like, okay, I'm developing breasts and I don't really feel like a woman at all.

Yeah.

We did hear a lot though, Dee, from people who went through puberty and then they realized they were like, okay, I want to transition or I want to take hormones to change like my body and like really affirm my like gender and how I feel about myself.