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Meaning of hondose | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈhʌnˌdəʊs

Definitions

A low dose of hormone replacement therapy in a trans woman which produces inadequate feminization and fails to suppress testosterone.

countable, derogatory, uncountable

Examples

“The gender clinic must hate me because they've given me a hondose again.”
“whenever a tgirl posts a picture of her newly acquired hrt and it's like 100mg of spiro and 1mg of sublingual estradiol the kill bill siren goes off in my head, i black out, and i wake up with bruises everywhere and "hondose" written all over my body in permanent marker”
“more people die from complications from being kept on hondose for a decade 😭 the average troon knows more about hrt than your precious endocrinologerinos who self-id as transition care specialists despite knowing fuckall about us (and usually hating us)”
“Everybody is different, but ultimately a hondose is a dose that's remarkably low for somebody, like we're talking putting someone on like 1mg E 50mg Cypro and then keeping them there for comically long.”
“we 100000% need a better word for ‘doctors giving incredibly low hrt dosage that’s unlikely to correctly facilitate transition’ than hondose”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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