Testosterone gave me my life back - by Cate Hall
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Lessons from a year of TRT
I’ve been going back and forth for a long time — like, months — on how to frame this piece, which concerns the fact that taking testosterone has massively, unmistakably improved my quality of life. I’ve been vacillating because I can see how easily it could be weaponized as evidence that women don’t belong in leadership roles or in male-dominated fields. Conceding that there may be a biological foundation for certain disparities feels like it risks excusing bias against women, and like a betrayal of some of my core beliefs. When I played poker professionally, I was a staunch advocate for…
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