I think it's really beautiful for any queer individual to look at spirituality or religion or science to help them conceptualize and understand their identities. I would never say that testosterone does make people more aggressive because when we look at the research in general it just isn't true right okay so I had mentioned that my hormone factories have been shuttered just cobwebs strewn and rusted into premature antiquity but there is something true to the sense of suddenly having changes in hormones causing alterations in behavior.
The wonderful neuroscientist and endocrinology researcher Dr. Daniel Pfau is back for Part 2 to answer listener mail about how hormones affect our moods, the variation of gender expression, queer lizards, how a strict gender binary is harmful to entire populations, hormone replacement therapy, hormones in sports, gender dysphoria, additional info on the Gender Unicorn and more. They remain just charming and kind and this episode will help you further understand just how many ways there are to be human. Also: it’s okay to take a mental health day once in a while.
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