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 ...
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 ...
Scientists anticipate a future where transgender people could create their own gender-affirming hormones and even produce ...
Close up portrait of a thoughtful transgender looking to the side Transgender women using estradiol don’t have an increased risk of heart attack or stroke However, transgender men taking testosterone ...
A federal judge has blocked a gender-affirming care ban for trans inmates in Georgia that has been in effect for several ...
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 ...
Five transgender inmates are suing the state corrections and health departments, claiming their hormone treatment has been ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal Bureau of ...