“As a male, I was prenatally exposed to medically prescribed hormones…”
Video published on 12 April 2016 by REALTALK W/The Cummings channel with Hugh Easton. .
It was a pill meant to prevent miscarriages…
Can a drug manipulate gender identity ?
Well, we know many DES sons who can confirm that yes, it did happen.
” Among my first discoveries were that I have a type of body structure that’s usually associated with intersex conditions, and that I have symptoms of acute hypogonadism. Basically, my body doesn’t make enough testosterone. Then, I came across a passage in the book “Brain Sex”, about a pattern of very shy, socially withdrawn behaviour that was often seen in teenaged boys who’d been prenatally exposed to an artificial estrogen called DES. It was virtually a perfect match for my own teenage years.
Shortly after that, I joined an online group of DES sons. It was like walking into a disaster zone, with everyone in the group appearing to suffer from health problems of various kinds, including hypogonadism, and various intersex-related abnormalities. One of the first things I noticed was that it was supposed to be a group for DES sons, yet most of the people posting stuff were using women’s names! I later discovered that these people had actually been assigned male at birth… “
DES DIETHYLSTILBESTROL RESOURCES
- Studies on DES and gender identity and DES and psychological health.
- Diethylstilbestrol DES studies by topics.
- For support and community engagement, join the group “DES: Society of Sons and Daughters (So Sad)“ on Facebook.
- Watch our DES Multi-Generational Tragedy video playlist on YouTube.
I was exposed to Diethylstilbestrol in the dawn of the 1950s. Growing up I had no idea there was anyone else like me, I knew parts of me were wrong. And everything I did just to feel normal — were all female, I grew up traumatized. I hated my body and kept trying to put it back inside of me where it belonged. Was a teen when — traumatized by being unable to avoid the wrong puberty it was being in Vocal Music and in the All County High School Choir that helped enable me to Keep My Higher Female Voice.
At home I had been about Five and a Half Years Old when I was Yelled At & Verbally Degraded for Being a Girl. My family has decades of group family pictures in which I was always the only one who Never Smiled.
Had to wait until living on my own before being able to begin doing more to transition without hormones. By then I was in my twenties. Yet still did not know how or where to find a counselor and doctors needed to get on hormones & surgeries to transition fully.
It wasn’t until in my late 50s — when upon seeing the television series, I Am Jazz with Jazz Jennings and her family — I finally knew I could get the medical help I had known ever since in my twenties that I needed.
Started Hormones Jan. 20, 2020
As of Today — November 20, 2025
5 Years & 10 Months on Hormones.
Daisy Budd
Thank you very much for sharing your moving testimonial with our readers, Daisy, it is highly appreciated.
Best wishes,