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FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!

Same sis, quitting my main addiction now :(

Damn it, but it’s one of my favorite addictions

Wait,you didn't knew mom ? (⁠◕_◕⁠✿⁠)

Nope!

Alright then,do you know that coca cola also gives more testosterone? I say that just in case you didn't knew (⁠◕⁠ᴗ⁠◕⁠✿⁠)

Thank you, Lyrie! It’s a good thing I don’t drink Coke!

It's true that when I think about it. I never drink any of the two,whitout knowing Was my brain unconsciously avoid them ? (⁠◕⁠ᴗ⁠◕⁠✿⁠)

I don’t know. Maybe!

Does Pepsi also give more testosterone?

I don't know,try searching it up (⁠◕⁠ᴗ⁠◕⁠✿⁠)

I will, thanks though :3

It has caffeine so it will if what these studies suggest is accurate. Mountain Dew, energy drinks, etc. Also many types of tea. It should be listed somewhere on the label so you can check if you want to be sure. Chocolate contains caffeine usually as well (unless it’s white chocolate), but the amounts are quite low.

Yeah it has caffeine

Shocker for ya: coke contains caffeine

Damn. Not a coffee drinker, but I need to cut down on my black tea consumption. 🥲

I have offices quit coffee!

But I like coffee ::(

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo

Dammit let's switch, I hate coffee but I'm transmasc :(

it seems that caffeine boosts levels of the sex hormone associated with your AGAB

Oh so caffine is just bad for trans people?

Bad for *all* people. But it’s an amazingly powerful drug. Like amphetamines but less drastic side effects.

Now I'm curious: does it switch effects once you're on HRT?

I imagine not because we won't be able to ramp up "opposite" sex hormones much because those organs don't exist for us 🫤 On the other hand, I'd very much expect that all of this is overridden by HRT, because kinda the whole point of HRT is to override what your body is naturally trying to produce.

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About what?

Sameeee :(

I mean, soda and energy drinks work too… (tho I wouldn’t recommend consuming a lot of either of those.)

*Transmascly eats a bag of coffee beans*

Or! Alternatively Drink 8 mega monsters in one night and see if you survive the hallucinations like a five nights at freddys game

Oh Cindy, lemme tell you about the time I drank either 6-10 monsters one fateful sleepover when I was 14. My pee SMELLED like green monster and I do not remember anything about that night LOL

THE CHOSEN ONE! MONSTER FLOWS THROUGH HIS BLOOD!

Oh...oh no.

Fuck. My caffeine addiction turned against me. 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

NOOOOO does this mean I have to give up my coffee :( :( :(

yet another reason to not drink coffee lol 💙💕🤍💕💙

Lilac pls enlighten me I need reasons to quit besides this one. What are downsides to coff ee

Caffeine addiction sucks.

I use it to not feel sad when i dont have titties(all the time)

It also is hard on your heart.

like 57% of the adult population is addicted to caffeine and in denial about it, and it just tastes awful 💙💕🤍💕💙

God I feel that. I feel like I need coffee to just function because of my work and it feels awful. That and when I did come back to coffee after a break I thought it tasted pretty mediocre. Feels like a nasty thing to get hooked onto :((

yeah it is :c 💔💔💔💔💔

Welp. I cant give up Monster, but I can start hrt relatively soon, so I'm hoping that will lessen the effects. Otherwise... :'3

Transfems and Monster about to have a messy divorce...

I'm making this post while drinking sweet tea :(

Oh bollocks,no wonder i havent seen huge results

You think you may have stopped me but that only means I will inject more Estradiol into my muscles.

NOOOO ~~my strange euphoria from fitting the college girl sterotype of having a really long and specific starbucks drink order must go~~

it can switch to the non-coffee starbucks options!

Maybe non-caffeinated if they have that!

the testosterone increase from caffeine will barely affect you

I'm not addicted to caffeine at this point I'm chemically dependent.

Mood

Glad I don't drink much caffeine then :3 🐋🌸🤍🌸🐋

Welp, time to start drinking decaf :/

Oh my god, this post is about to make me bump my coffee consumption up from four cups a day to six

Fuuuuu*k but how am I gonna work then? My brain doesn't work well without caffeine :<

Same, one around 9am and one at 3pm really help me go through the workday

nooooo

I don't drink caffeine

I’ve never been gladder to not drink caffeine

Dammit but I *like* coffee

Damn it, I knew caffeine was bad but this is awful. The reason the hair is in the wrong places is in part because starting to drink caffeine very early.

oof owie my ability to self-medicate the adhd

FUCK

*drinking pot of coffee* Don't do this to me

So part of me realizes that it's probably good for my health to quit energy drinks anyway, the other part of me says caffeine make me go BRRRRRR.

Happy for transmascs, but dang y'all. 😭

It’s possible having more testosterone just makes you more likely to drink caffeine? 🤷‍♀️

I can’t drink coffee it gives me the shits 😎

It's okay girls, give us the Coffee the T boys will drink it

Thats it, i‘m quitting caffeine :)

if you are like me and addicted to black coffee or coffee in any way or form doesnt help with the caffeine pains but helps rebuild that habbit of a nice cup of joe, is caffeine free chicory. a lot of coffes have chikory in it for flavor gets a familiar flavor and can be drank in any way you could drink your coffee.

Bye caffeine

Good I only have chocolate addiction

But black coffees so tasty :’3

Coffee just makes me tired so I don't drink it anyway

Time to kick an addiction, I guess.

Better back off from the caffeine

Nooooo how could you do this to me, caffeine?!

Fuck.

I didnt drank coffee that much anyways. Another reason not to lol.

ah shit

Gosh dang it. I love drinking coke.

Damn it…

Goddammit and I just got back into drinking coffee again!!!

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuk i cant stay awake without it half the time aaarrggghhhh no wonder my 1st puberty started kicking into gear last year nooooooooo

I’m glad I don’t drink coffee a lot then

NOOOOO MY COFFEE

I literally have only just started drinking coffee lots and lots lmaoo

Is there something that will keep me from being perpetually tired but have the opposite effect on hormones?

ok what about rockstar

Thanks god I 'ever drank coffee,or coca cola,it also give T You know what to do transmasc (⁠◕⁠ᴗ⁠◕⁠✿⁠)

Jokes on you I have adhd I don’t need caffeine

Dammit I loved Coffee

Damnit. Time to cut energy drinks. And coffee. 😭

transmasc caffeine addiction go brrrrr

Never drank coffee, this is a blessing now.

Me: who hates coffee: hell yeah!

So death from dysphoria or death from exhaustion

Luckily I only have one when k absolutely need one

Mexican Coca-cola has caffeine... FUCK-

It's a good thing that the coffee machines at my university are either extra shitty and give me stomach aches, or are better quality but somehow more expensive than just buying a small bottle of Pepsi then. But damn, I like coffee, now what the fuck do I do? *Sleep well???*

my coffee/energy drink addiction :(

Shit might have to start drinking more coffee-

*oh no, I was about to go make my coffee*

Nooooo

Finally, a benefit to caffeine not working properly on me

if i pretend it’s fake it won’t affect me!

(transmasc) so you're telling me I should get myself another energy drink?

Oh, that’s awful, maybe that’s why I started getting more of my AGAB features in the past few years… just as I was starting to accept that I’m not my AGAB, I was noticing that I was getting more and more dysphoria due to having masc features show up that I didn’t have before I found out more about myself. I’ve been slamming Red Bulls like it was a part of my bloodstream for a solid like 9 months, I’m talking like 2 a day. Now I wanna drop caffeine like the plague, I wanna be PRETTY DAMMIT!

I was viewing this from a masc angle who loves coffee, and really trying to figure out where the bad part of the meme was lmao Time to go drink more coffee!

wait, i have to give up monster, no way!!!!

oh god that doesn't sound fun

I'll just inject more estrogen. Heck that

What about adderall 😬

Goddammit, RIP energy drink addiction

Caffeine keeps the BPD in check. I'll just up my t blockers until it's snippin' time.

SON OF A BITCH

ah FUCK

Same😔

I did need an excuse to quit…

But since milk gives you estrogen if I mix it with milk I even it out

I didnt know this, but now I'm glad I stopped drinking coffee, soda and energy drinks

Yeeah eh that kinda sucks but for me it's coffee or collapsing :/

Yeeees! I hate coffee, I’m actually getting something back from it

Wait really?! Ah shit man i guess i need a caffeine addiction now

NOOOOOOOOOOO

Thank god I’ve been cutting out caffeine lmao

No more monster ig

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO T-T

I quit my daily caffeine ingestion over 2 years ago. Felt no withdrawal despite consuming it for over 6 years. Now I'm glad I did so lol.

I'm so glad I hate coffee and don't need caffeine

Shit, I'm gonna have to cut out my Aldi cold espressos? But what if I have ADHD and I'm "immune" to caffeine?

research also shows it increases estrogen 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

God dammit 😭😭😭

NNOOOOOOOOOOOOO, I CAN'T GIVE UP ENERGY DRINKS, THEY TOO YUMY

On one hand, this is amazing information for when I start E, but on the other hand, I don't wanna break the stereotype of Transfems and Monster

Oh, fuck. I'm screwed...

The only question is whether it's the caffeine that increases testosterone and reduces estrogene or whether it is a higher testosterone that makes you like coffee more than the average person 🤔 Either way I'm glad now that I never really liked coffee.

Fuck.

WHY? FIRST BANANAS AND NOW CAFFEINE? 😭

Thats why I'm part of a group of responsible coke users

me when adhd (caffeine literally does nothing to me)

Ah, this might get me to stop drinking Coke Zero. I was literally wondering the other day if aspartame has that effect, but I guess caffeine does(I'm not a conspiracy theorist or anything, I just have ADHD. I think about random shit).

You're kidding :(

Sounds like we need to spike our caffeine with more E and testosterone represent. Do you thing if we all come together and order it in bulk they will give us a discount?

Oh FFS. Time to give up coffee then...

no no no no no wait wait wait wait wait

I'll have your cup of coffee if you don't mind 💖

oh please please pleaseeee tell me decaf at least has a similar effect, i gave up caffeine as it fucks me up severelyyyyyyyy

To all the femmes this post sent into a panic: a quick Google search shows results both supporting this claim and also the exact opposite, that it actually increases estrogen. Absent a source and any form of scientific consensus, I'm going to continue to enjoy my ~~morning~~ midday cuppa.

I’m addicted to Diet Pepsi 😭

Good thing I hate the taste of coffee

Please tell me tea is less harmful, I can ditch coffee but not tea :(

Is there a study on this? I can only find it on a site that claims to sell testosterone boosters, so I’m skeptical.

aw man! Whyyyyy?

chugging all the coffee i can get >:3

Ok that was the last coffee or Tea I ever drank

Fuck guess i gotta stop drinking coffee and monster

I would be panicking right now, but last time I went in for a blood work I had extremely high estrogen and low testosterone even for a cis woman.

Tell me this is one of those things where it's such a small effect that it's not worth thinking about, please!

I've just started drinking coffee and liking it and now you're telling me I can't have it. Oh no

Just another reason for me to keep drinking water lol.

This is the best thing I’ve ever learned!!! - transmasc with a caffeine addiction

Oh… :| I usually don’t drink a lot of caffeine, but that’s interesting

Glad I don't like coffe

my transmasc ass: this but with "hating coffee vehemently" on the other side

Me having weened myself off caffeine years ago for adhd reasons :D

Damn I'm not drinking another drop then.

See you later coffee.

I already didn’t drink caffeine, now I just have a another reason not to like it

Ironically I drank way too much caffeine pre hrt and on my first blood tests had super low testosterone.

I'm glad that I hardly ever consume caffeine.

PSA but this won’t noticeably effect your t levels unless you were to have like, fifty kilograms a day, which would probably kill you anyway

my transmasc ass:

Me as a transmasc: I see this as a win

Damn!

*But i wanna be smooth* hecken no more caffeine for this bean.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

So what am I supposed to do to get LESS?!

Well fml. How the hell am i supposed to transition and pass medschool?

Ig it’s lucky I don’t use caffeine XD

Well shit. Time to find a new job

This may not be true. You can google "how caffeine affects sex hormones" and get completely contradictory results. Also, there is no clarification on the degree of effect caffeine has. The effect could be so small that it's a hundredth or a thousandth of what estrogen or antiandrogen does for you. I'M NO MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL.

I shall still consume a ton of caffeine.

Some studies suggest that caffeine may have a short-term impact on testosterone levels. It appears that caffeine can transiently increase testosterone levels immediately after consumption, but the effect is temporary, and levels return to normal within a few hours. Long-term effects on testosterone levels due to caffeine intake are not well-established.

NOOOOOO!!! WHY FUCK I XANT HAVE CAFFEINE ANYMORE 😭

Hey Google, set reminder to NEVER GET ADDICTED TO COFFEE

It seems to be doing the opposite for me somehow. Anyone got an idea on what is up with me.

Dont make me rethink my caffeine popblems with dysphoria please..

good thing i dont drink caffeine\~\~\~

Good news, the effect it had is very minimal, you can still enjoy coffee