Testosterone Diaries: 5 Years
What I've learned about becoming a good man
Monday, February 2, marked half of a decade on hormone replacement therapy. At this time last year, I focused most of my reflections on the early parts of my journey, how much I resisted starting testosterone, and how much joy I found once I did start. Here’s that article if you’d like to hear more about the start of this journey!
Build-a-Boy: Reflections from 4 years on Testosterone
On February 2nd, 2021, my wife gave me my first testosterone injection. This weekend I celebrated this milestone. This was a beautiful, intimate moment, but in order to truly understand the story of what came after, we must also talk about what came before.
Since then, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking more about the kind of man I want to become, and the spaciousness testosterone has given me to build him. Over the years I’ve said that while I expected testosterone to make me aggressive, what it actually did was turn up the volume on what’s already here. I’m now aggressively nice.
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