Breast growth for transsexuals and gender benders

Breast Growth

For transsexual M2F or Gender Benders that are aiming on having breasts, one question that may come to mind is what makes a male breast into a female breast?

In fact, all mammals, both male and female have breast glands that would enlarge under hormonal oestrogen and progestesterone stimulation. As for young teen girls, female breast starts to grow larger, more gland and fat develop and as a result they get the typical female shape. How large the gland must become before the contour is considered a breast has no clear set point but as the breasts enlarges, fuller curves evolve and tissue will sooner or later hang, creating folds under the breast.

For transsexuals or gender benders that takes hormones to stimulate breast growth and enlargement will, if started at early age, get near to or equal to female breast shape and size due to the hormone stimulation. Fat cells of the breast will also enlarge with hormones but the effect of hormones will drop as older you get and when you pass 50-60 you might see only a minimum of breast growth, if any at all even though it depends on each individual. As the breast grows, also the areola enlarges and the nipples project.

In fact the key to large good breasts is fat and not so much the breast tissue in it self but having a tiny gland with almost no fat can look bad so for the sake of good shaped breasts, it's important to have some excess fat that collects in the breasts even though access fat also tend to deposit in the belly so good belly exercise may help on keeping the fat collection only to the breasts. Without female hormones, a pendulous breast in an obese male will have mostly fat and very little gland but still not have the typical female shape due to the spacing between the breasts.

Once on hormones, pain and discomfort in the breasts are all new sensations but the degree can vary from mild sensitivity to real pain on even the slightest touch where the frequency can be from sometimes to all the time. In a normal male breast the sensitivity are there but as the glands grows, hypersensitivity may occur giving pain and discomfort but most transsexuals and gender benders on hormones love this as it's a sign that something is happening.

As breast glands grow, the glands are attached to the nipple so that milk can be delivered. Most of the firmer breast tissues tend to collect under the nipple making the breast more projected. To help having female shaped breasts, momentum seams to help as it would drag tissue exaggerating into a non-male contour.

For transsexual M2F or Gender Benders that takes both oestrogen and progestesterone hormones, may after a while also experience some lactation due to elevation of the hormone Prolactin. If you experiences lactation and your Prolactin levels are not elevated 3-5x normal range, there should be no reason to concern but more than that might needs immediately medical attention. Remember that nipple discharge comes in many different forms and should normally be white as ordinary milk but other colours might be signs that needs to be evaluated. You can see the hormone levels under the menu point "Hormone Levels" on top of this page.

If transsexual M2F or gender benders being on female hormones for a while stop taking them, the breasts may reduce in size and they will tend to shrink even though some tissue typically remains forever.