hondose

English

Etymology

From hon (“a trans woman who does not pass”) (derogatory, offensive) +‎ dose.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌnˌdəʊs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌnˌdoʊs/
• Rhymes: -ʌndəʊs
• Hyphenation: hon‧dose

Noun

hondose (countable and uncountable, plural hondoses)

1. (4chan /lgbt/ slang, derogatory) A low dose of hormone replacement therapy in a trans woman which produces inadequate feminization and fails to suppress testosterone.

   The gender clinic must hate me because they've given me a hondose again.

   • [2022 August 8, @Sick1663, Twitter‎^[1]:

     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]

   • 2023 October 1, @morepain4harlan, Twitter‎^[2]:

     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)

   • 2024 July 23, u/Burner4Questioning, Reddit‎^[3], r/4tran4:

     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.

   • [2024 July 24, @wanderingdahl, Twitter‎^[4]:

     we 100000% need a better word for ‘doctors giving incredibly low hrt dosage that’s unlikely to correctly facilitate transition’ than hondose]