Griffin Hansbury, who was born female but underwent a sex change after graduating from college, has another well-informed view of the powers of testosterone. The world just changes, he said. The most overwhelming feeling was the incredible increase in libido and change in the way I perceived women. Before the hormone treatments, Hansbury said, an attractive woman in the street would provoke an internal narrative: Shes attractive. Id like to meet her. But after the injections, no more narrative. Any attractive quality in a woman, nice ankles or something, was enough to flood my mind with aggressive pornographic images, just one after anotherEverything I looked at, everything I touched turned to sex. He concluded, I felt like a monster a lot of the time. It made me understand men. It made me understand adolescent boys a lot.
