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Gender: A Wider Lens
Sasha Ayad and Stella O'Malley
4.6 • 961 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2024
⏱️ 3 minutes
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In this bonus episode for premium subscribers, Elaine Miller considers the complex and nuanced implications of exogenous testosterone use in females, particularly focusing on those who become pregnant while on the hormone. She also underscores the importance of mother-infant bonding and the potential impacts of cross-sex hormones on that critical relationship, alongside the societal implications of surrogacy and the unique needs of those families.Watch our full length episode with Elaine Miller: https://www.widerlenspod.com/p/episode-175
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Gender A Wider Lens exclusive content. If you're a free listener, what you're about to hear is a preview of a bonus episode for our paid sub-stack subscribers. |
| 0:11.0 | If you'd like to hear the rest, go to widerlands pod.com and sign up for any of our paid membership |
| 0:16.8 | options. |
| 0:17.8 | And to all of our premium and founding member subscribers, thank you for the support. And here's the bonus conversation. |
| 0:26.0 | We're back here with Elaine Miller, |
| 0:28.0 | who was talking with us on the full episode |
| 0:31.0 | about all of the physiological, biological, medical impacts of testosterone, |
| 0:38.7 | menopause, and one of the things I'd love to ask you about, which I've heard you touch on before, is what are the implications for females who are taking exogenous testosterone and then get pregnant? what might that potentially do for their babies and for their |
| 0:58.1 | health. So what can you tell us about that? This is a very interesting question because we see sometimes you |
| 1:04.3 | know news stories where man gives birth to baby and of course it's a female person who was taking |
| 1:10.9 | testosterone so there's a little bit of stubble right but what |
| 1:15.2 | what does this mean this is kind of a new frontier yeah yeah again we don't |
| 1:20.5 | really know the the historical model is with women that have got |
| 1:25.5 | polysy to go for the syndrome. So they produce naturally higher levels of |
| 1:30.2 | testosterone and for women with that condition they tend to have fertility problems. |
| 1:36.6 | They're they it takes them longer to get pregnant and they will be they will experience more pregnancy loss and pre-term birth than women who don't have |
| 1:49.8 | policies to go for his own on average. So the animal models that we've done is they've to females that are pregnant in rats and the rat pups were born with genital abnormalities. |
| 2:08.0 | And the reason that that experiment was done was to see about, you know, look at work and try and examine what was happened to women with |
| 2:14.7 | policies to go forays. We know that testosterone is a tarragen which is Greek fur |
| 2:22.1 | it's really not very nice but but it's like a poison. It's like it means monster maker. |
| 2:26.7 | So there is a group of drugs that you must not take if you're pregnant because the impact of it on a developing fetus is devastating. |
| 2:37.8 | And testosterone is a detergion, it's one of those. |
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