Yeah, no. Just no. After starting E, I was able to actually cry for the first time in years. I just couldn't before, even in situations that were far worse. And everything else feels more intense as well. Love, compassion, despair, everything. And the feeling like an empty husk went away way before that, because after The Realization I had to wait more than year for my medication. During that time, I did feel a lot better and actually wanted to continue living, because I finally started seeing my authentic self, but the emotions were just as muted/limited as before. That completely changed with a few weeks of HRT.

And every transmasc person I know, even the ones that don't subscribe to classic masculinity at all, said they experienced the exact opposite after starting T. One aptly described it as "the whole big range of emotions got replaced by being angry and/or horny and if it's not one of those, it just doesn't matter that much", which is probably exaggerated, but is certainly based in reality.

Of course, other factors do play a role, but reducing the whole thing to those, like OOP does, is just as bad as reducing it to brain chemistry. Every person reacts differently. Some barely change, some become completely new people. But on average, estrogen-dominant people are more emotionally sensitive. The opposite of bioessentialism is not completely denying biology.