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An interesting question. Do transwomen have a male scent or a female scent and do mice respond to transwomen like a male or female? How about transmen? A fascin
by boxmonster 4y ago
An interesting question. Do transwomen have a male scent or a female scent and do mice respond to transwomen like a male or female? How about transmen? A fascinating area of research.
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- delecti 4y agoHormones influence your scent. So a trans woman would have male scent before starting hormones, and then would (over the course of weeks to months) gradually develop a female scent, and vice versa with trans men.
- ghidle 4y agoIn the context of how rodents respond to such scents, I think it is currently unknown whether a male on a long-term feminising hormone treatment would still produce a sufficiently male-type scent, or a female-type scent.
- delecti 4y agoBased on personal and anecdotal experience, I would be very confident in my assumption. There are plenty of things that hormones only change very gradually (body hair takes years), or which they can't "undo" (bones are pretty static after age 20-25), but body scent is one of the first and strongest changes when starting cross-sex hormones.
- ghidle 4y agoYes but this has not yet been experimentally tested, so it's currently unknown.