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Sex hormones play an important role in bone growth and maintenance. The effects of hormone therapy on bone health are not fully understood, and may depend on whether hormone therapy is started before or after puberty. [309] Bone density continue to grow and change over time.
There are a variety of genital surgeries available to trans women and transfeminine non-binary people. Genital surgery can be an effective way for an individual to ease or eliminate feelings of disconnection or discomfort with their natal genitals; for others, including those who do not feel strongly about their natal genitals, it can create feelings of connection or congruence with their ...
Two months later, I underwent a unilateral mastectomy and post-op began a 10-year adjuvant treatment: a daily medication, Letrozole, to wipe out all the estrogen in my body, and quarterly Lupron ...
The author, not pictured, began their gender journey after giving birth. Jose Luis Raota/Getty Images Before becoming pregnant, I came out as nonbinary but didn't change much of my appearance.
Gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT), also called hormone replacement therapy (HRT) or transgender hormone therapy, is a form of hormone therapy in which sex hormones and other hormonal medications are administered to transgender or gender nonconforming individuals for the purpose of more closely aligning their secondary sexual characteristics with their gender identity.
I had been on IVF and hormone medications for about three years consistently before he was born, but after his birth in November 2019, my hormones went haywire. ... my husband is the most amazing ...
Before an orchiectomy is deemed necessary, liver function tests, tumor markers, and various blood panels are taken to confirm the presence of testicular cancer. Tumor markers that may be checked include beta human chorionic gonadotropin , lactate dehydrogenase , and alpha fetoprotein .
Before oophorectomy, it is difficult and frequently impractical to fully suppress estrogen levels into the normal male range, especially with exogenous testosterone aromatizing into estrogen, hence why the female ranges are referenced instead. In post-oophorectomy trans men, Israel and colleagues recommend that both testosterone and estrogen ...