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Don’t trans people take the hormones associated with the opposite sex to become more like that sex? I.e. a male-bodied transwoman will take estrogen, and in turn her body becomes more feminine. The reverse for transmen.

That would seem to indicate that testosterone/estrogen have (on average) the same response in both male and female bodies, either masculinizing or feminizing.

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> Don’t trans people take the hormones associated with the opposite sex to become more like that sex?

This is correct. Although there's only so much they can do for those of us transitioning post-puberty (like me) once bones have fused and stopped growing.

As testosterone is stronger than oestrogen, it will override the oestrogen in your body and bring about masculinising changes such as making your adams apple more prominent changing your voice box, a V-shaped upper body, facial structure, body hair, hand and feet size, larger bones, and higher hip growth. Whereas if you only have oestrogen, these effects don't occur at all - really only just wider hip growth.

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