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In spring 2015, Graham Grail, then a sophomore at Boston University, approached one of his professors with an idea. One day after class, he walked up to Carolyn Hodges-Simeon’s podium and explained that he wanted to research voice, specifically how it changes in transgender men who take testosterone. Hodges-Simeon, a biological anthropologist who researches sex differences in speech and the voice, was immediately on board.
“I was very surprised to see that at the time there was so little research in this area, and it got me thinking, how do physicians know the proper dosage? How do people starting testosterone therapy know what to expect?” says Hodges-Simeon, a BU College of Arts & Sciences assistant professor of anthropology.
here s how it works. throughout history men have been programmed to intensely compete with each other for status and recognition from their peers because a high status guy who has access to mates, powerful allies, resources and so to be successful you have to be driven to achieve this dominance, this recognition. to achieve that is a very satisfying almost intoxicating thing. you don t want to let it go once you have it. the flip side of this is the guys who are losing to this competition spending their lives and much more negative emotions, anger, unhappiness in general and this is all do to testosterone changes. a guy who wins in a competition or achieves a position of dominance has a testosterone rush that is very pleasurable. the guy on the other end of the