Before starting hormone therapy, trans adolescents undergo comprehensive assessment and counseling with a team of mental health professionals and medical doctors who specialize in transgender health.
Accessing hormone therapy to affirm gender identity as a transgender teen could mean better mental health in the long run than for those who wait until adulthood or never receive treatment, according ...
Compounding that statistic, prior studies indicate some trans people at high risk for HIV transmission are hesitant to take ...
Overweight, obesity, and dyslipidaemia were common in transgender adolescents before hormone therapy. Sex steroid therapy affected lipid profiles differently in transgender boys and girls, with trans ...
Traditionally, trans people take hormones in high enough amounts to produce drastic changes right away. But microdosing produces more subtle results.
Feminizing hormone therapy increases estrogen levels and decreases testosterone levels to induce traditionally female characteristics in the body.
Report that Labour is considering extending the ban on puberty blockers ban to cover private hormone prescriptions could create a “lost generation” of trans people, an expert has warned. Clinical ...
Protesters for and against gender-affirming care for transgender minors demonstrate outside the Supreme Court in December. (Jose Luis Magana / Associated Press) The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that ...
WASHINGTON — The federal Bureau of Prisons must continue providing hormone therapy and social accommodations to hundreds of transgender inmates following an executive order signed by President Donald ...
In January, all access to hormone treatments and other gender-affirming care for transgender youth will end in Kansas. Some families have already moved to avoid the ban.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal Bureau of Prisons must continue providing hormone therapy and social accommodations to hundreds of transgender inmates following an executive order signed by President ...