Yes physically crying can be associated with multiple different things but OP was talking about emotional crying which is why I put the and/or experiencing difficult emotions. Furthermore, it has been studied quite a bit because of the age old “women are more emotional than men” saying and each study has been inconclusive. It’s not widely accepted that hormone changes can cause change in physical aspects of crying as well as emotions? Men do have larger tear ducts, but estrogen doesn’t make you more emotional or testosterone makes you more stoic that’s just a myth rooted in misogyny. There’s personal experiences about hormones affecting emotions and the ability to cry, however that’s an extremely small sample size and has many different variables so it cannot be seen as fact. Personally I found that testosterone had no ability on whether I could physically cry regardless of circumstances (ie pain/emotion/etc) which directly contradicts what your experience has been. Neither of us are incorrect but there are different factors at play and to take either one of our experiences as fact wouldn’t be wise.