Hormone Regimen After Trans Boy Is Turned Into A Werewolf

[nyxelestia]

This setting is in modern day California. I've been researching FtM transitions like crazy, but I can't seem to find any explanation of how hormones interact with metabolism to come up with some answers

Comments

[carlyinrome]

All my neurochem knowledge comes from undergrad, so I may be way off base here, but testosterone, I believe, increases metabolism on its own. A lot of the characteristics provided by testosterone--increased metabolism, increased muscle growth, increased hair growth--are going to be boosted by the lycanthropy, so wouldn't your character need less testosterone?

Just a thought. Good luck with your research.

[nyxelestia]

I definitely hadn't thought of it that way. I guess my biggest worry is that it might affect sex-specific traits (i.e. voice, chest, etc.), which aren't affected by the Bite in canon (which is Teen Wolf, if you are in any way familiar with that). But then, this world's canon is horribly inconsistent, so I have some leeway.

[alafaye]

I want to read this book ._.

[nyxelestia]

It's going to be a fanfic, actually. Do you want me to send you a link if/when I start posting? If you haven't seen the TV show (Teen Wolf) and don't feel like watching, I can even write you a little primer on what you might need to know to read the fanfic that won't necessarily be obvious/stated in the story itself. :)

[alafaye]

I don't know the show, but I'll go into it like a book, unknown universe :)

Please do send me a link!

[usekh]

Firstly it is your world, so Werewolf physiology works the way you want it too.

Something else to consider is depending on the canon most Werewolf societies are depicted as usually fairly conservative/old fashioned so there may be an issue there.

Sadly I can't help you with medical knowledge of hormone shots :(

[tamtrible]

The reference to "canonical" side effects suggests to me that this is a fanfic--that is, someone else made the "rules" for these werewolves. This person is just trying to figure out how those rules apply to a different situation.

[andrea_deer]

I'm no expert on chemistry/biology, but from the research I've done on transitions and testosterone's effects (and withdrawal effects) - I'd be most inclined with what carlyinrome said. That lycanthropy might actually increase the levels of testosterone or provide simmilar effect, so the character would need less of it for the transition

[nyxelestia]

It's a Teen Wolf fanfic, if that's the canon you're thinking of. I'll definitely send you a link when I start posting, if you want

[andrea_deer]

Oh, I would love the link, when you're done :D I've never considered trans!Scott, well, not in detail, but I think it's a brilliant idea

[nyxelestia]

Sure thing, though I do warn you, this is probably going to end up as Sciles fic. There are a lot of parallels about how, at the end of the day, this really isn't the first time the boys have had to get Scott used to a new body. This also isn't the first time Stiles has figured out what Scott was before Scott did. :P (When they were little, Scott felt "wrong" until he described himself to Stiles, and Stiles was the one who figured things out for him

[nineveh_uk]

What does canon say about the hormones (testosterone, oestrogen, progesterone) that are already in your post-puberal character's bodies? Hormones taken for medical purposes work in the body in the same way as the ones that people's bodies produce themselves. Or if canon doesn't say anything, keep in mind how testosterone is working in the bodies of amab cis werewolves, and indeed cis female ones (who also produce testosterone).

You might ask questions like, do amab werewolves produce extra testosterone to compensate because their lycanthropy burns through it? Do they produce the average amab amount and lycanthropy has no impact? Do they produce the average amab account and lycanthropy burns through it and they don't produce extra and therefore they appear physically as if they had lower-than-average testosterone even though they don’t?

If (1) or (3) your trans character might also require higher than average testosterone to have an average effect. If (2), they won’t.

[whatifoundthere]

I love your option #3 and would read the shit out of a story about that, whether the OP is the one who writes it or not!

[nyxelestia]

This is a fanfic for Teen Wolf. There is no established canon about the exact impact or nature of the hormones, but while everyone does get some testosterone-like effects (namely increased aggression and strength/muscle growth), it otherwise doesn't affect any sex-specific traits or cause of any of the other affects of T (i.e. no one's voice deepens with the Bite, no one's fat redistributes, etc).

The AMAB werewolves are very typically masculine, and the AFAB werewolves are pretty typically feminine. Everyone's strength dramatically increases, and there is a lot of hair growth when they transform (but no change in hair when they are human), and they get a lot more aggressive (especially around the full moon). Otherwise, there's nothing particularly concrete.