Trans Asexuals on Hormones

[rainbow_gray]

I am a young trans guy who is in and out of the asexual community. I started my testosterone shots about a week and a half ago *hands out celebratory cookies* and I've been wondering about some of the effects

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[whimsical_esper]

I am an MTF who identified as asexual from pre-transition up until about a year and a half on HRT. At that point, I started noticing definite feelings of sexual attraction as well as a moderate increase in sex drive, and so started identifying as Grey-A. A few months later my sex drive shot through the roof, and that's pretty much where it's been ever since (I've now been on HRT for about 2 years). And so yeah, I pretty much don't identify as the least bit asexual anymore. Which is kinda weird for me.

But yeah. Probably YMMV.

~S

[camicochan]

I am a trans woman, and before hormones I had a sex drive that was somewhat intertwined with relationships but largely separate. Now I feel a desire for sex particularly for people I'm involved in rather than a "generic" arousal like I had before. I'd say it's decreased in frequency but is just as intense and also much more rewarding.

[suiway]

I'm asexual and I've been on T for 4 weeks and 3 days now. I have experienced an increase in sex drive (about double what it used to be I'd say, but still not nearly what I imagine an "average" sex drive would be). It hasn't changed my attraction levels at all though. So fart at least I would say that I'm still exactly the same in that area only I have a slightly higher but still negligible sex drive.

[metayak]

I do not identify as asexual, though some people with similar characteristics of their sexuality might. I am three years on T, and I would say that neither my sex drive nor my level of attraction to other people has moved very much. I will say that my own relationship to the particulars of my sexuality has drastically changed, but who knows how much of that is getting older and how much is other factors.

[cloudberryhaiku]

I'm MTF, but this might help at least a little. I was pretty much asexual through most of high school, though I did want companionship and closeness with someone, just not sex.

After starting estrogen though, I've become much more sexual than I used to be, and have a very strong drive. I don't get outwardly aroused without the T, though, so that might be something worth noting. I do, however, get what's been described as a more female type of arousal, internally, so ymmv.

It may have to do more with simply being more comfortable in one's skin and being a little more at ease with oneself sexually rather than one hormone or the other. Or, one's mind may simply react more to the 'right' hormone in your body, as I've always been of the theory that in these cases, one's mind is undoubtedly male or female, rather than, say, a "male that thinks they should be female" instead. If that makes sense, I may have worded it poorly.