Vegetarian and Vegan Trans People

I have a genetic disorder and was also molested as a child. Related existing writing by me on the topic of vegetarianism and sexual trauma:

Eating Cleaner

First drafts almost always suck

Feeling Dirty

If you are trans, I believe you have an unidentified medical condition that impacts hormone production. 

Cholesterol is the starting point for progesterone, estrogen and testosterone. 

Cholesterol is not classified as a vitamin or essential nutrient because we can build it in house starting with B5 and 95 percent of the cholesterol in the brain is built in house in the brain, not simply carted in from dietary sources.

If you are a traditional vegetarian and eat eggs, you can get cholesterol from egg yolks.

If you are vegan, so far my research has failed to discover a vegan source of cholesterol.

If you practice protein combining, protein deficiency shouldn't be a significant risk. Vegans failing to get adequate protein are probably just woefully ignorant of basic tennets of vegetarianism.

But you apparently need to make some effort to get sufficient B vitamins as a vegan.

B vitamins are mostly found in animal products, like beef, dairy products and seafood. Seaweed and mushrooms are vegetarian sources of B vitamins.

Vegetarian sources of nutrients usually found in animal products.

I'm not going to suggest you must give up veganism or vegetarianism to hack your hormones, but you do face additional challenges. 

I will suggest that if you are trans and also vegan or vegetarian, it may be a reasonable accomodation for an unidentified syndrome of unknown pathology and there are probably myriad hormone syndromes, so being "trans" is like an umbrella term and some may involve pathology where you eschew animal products for biological reasons and some may not.

I don't currently know how you pursue step one as a vegan. If you are vegetarian, eggs and honey should work just fine. Or eggs and mango-papaya salsa. Or eggs and sauerkraut.

But all the hormones I've been reading about -- including vitamin D -- start with cholesterol. And you can build cholesterol from B5.

So I would start there.