𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓮 𝓦𝔂𝓷𝓷  💎

What is commonly called a person's "pheromones" is probably in fact just their body odor, which many people report playing a role in sexual attraction.

This is often cited by straight men or (more often tbh) cis lesbians as a reason why trans women are undesirable sex partners—"I'm turned off by man smell." What they apparently don't know is that HRT changes the way you smell.

Disclaimer: I am not trying to persuade anyone to sleep with trans people. You are very welcome to never sleep with a trans person, but I kindly plead that you not publicly broadcast that preference in conjunction with a bunch of ignorant misinformation about us.

Before I transitioned I played a character on YouTube who wears a leatherette corset. A few months ago, now on HRT, I got that corset out again and ugh! It smelled (synthetic material, hard to wash) like pre-transition man sweat. This was so disturbing I had to buy a new one.

Until that moment I had actually forgotten I ever smelled like that. Within a few weeks of starting HRT there was a dramatic change (more TMI ahead) in the way I smell. Pre-HRT I used to wear clinical-strength deodorant with a girly scent to mask the horror. No longer necessary.

The most noticeable change is I now just don't smell like much at all. I can sleep in a t-shirt and not notice a scent the next day. Even on a hot day I can just put on some bullshit hippie apricot-scented deodorant and be fine. And what smell there is is distinctively female.