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Friendly reminder that the soy thing is a right-wing nutjob obsession because soy contains phytoestrogens - plant estrogen - and they believe this increases your human estrogen levels.
Unfortunately for trans women, that is simply not true. Phytoestrogens are just too different in structure from human estrogen to (significantly) activate estrogen hormone receptors and may even inactivate them in some cases. Most studies suggest very little but conflicting effects or no effects at all.
The soy obsession is because soy is a common alternative to dairy products and from an East Asian plant, triggering right-wingers fragile masculinity and inherit racism. They're desperate to paint it as feminine so the only thing they could possibly latch onto is that it contains something named after estrogen - the FEMALES' HORMONE!!!
If you want to temporarily have more estrogen receptor activations, just drink a latte with cow milk, since dairy contains plenty of cow estrogen which is quite similar in structure to human estrogen.
I always just assumed it was only as deep as "that's not the milk I grew up with, waaaaah"