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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.
In most males, the larynx becomes visible as a bony "Adam's apple," which is developed in transgender men under hormone therapy. Lips: Females, tend to have thicker, fleshier lips than males of the same size due to estrogen. Thus, after being administered androgens, transgender men may have a fat redistribution that results in smaller lips.
[288] [261] [391] Estrogen doses in transgender women were reduced following the introduction of antiandrogens. [ citation needed ] Ethinylestradiol, conjugated estrogens, and other non-bioidentical estrogens largely stopped being used in transgender women in favor of estradiol starting around 2000 due to their greater risks of blood clots and ...
U.S. v. Skrmetti centers on a Tennessee law that bans gender-transition treatments for minors in the state. The law, passed in March 2023, also takes aim at health care providers in Tennessee who ...
DIY transgender hormone therapy involves transgender people "seek[ing] to access [transgender hormone therapy] through friends, peers, and the internet, without consulting a health worker." [ 1 ] Trans people can obtain information about hormone therapy from online sources, some of which are generated by the trans community.
She transitioned and had surgery in the mid-1970s, and successfully advocated to have transgender people recognized in U.S. sports. The first physician to perform sex reassignment surgery in the United States was Los Angeles-based urologist Elmer Belt, who quietly performed operations from the early 1950s until 1968.
Estrogen: SC implant: 50–200 mg every 6–24 mos Estradiol valerate: Progynova: Estrogen: Oral: 2–10 mg/day Progynova: Estrogen: Sublingual: 1–8 mg/day Delestrogen [c] Estrogen: IM, SC: 2–10 mg/wk or 5–20 mg every 2 wks Estradiol cypionate: Depo-Estradiol: Estrogen: IM, SC: 2–10 mg/wk or 5–20 mg every 2 wks Estradiol dipropionate ...
Men can do the same,” says Alex Robboy, a sex therapist in Philadelphia. Essentially, kegel exercises are a way of contracting the muscles of the pelvic floor, which give you greater control and ...