A child born female receives the male hormone testosterone. Ask your child's healthcare provider for more information. This is not a decision your child can make quickly. He or she will need to have counseling, and express the affirmed gender in public. Surgical alteration means using surgery...
What is cystitis? Why do women suffer from cystitis more frequently than men? What does the pink band in a FTM indicate? What is/are the physiologic effect/s of testosterone? (a) What are the 5 special senses? (b) Briefly describe each sense. ...
When I was prescribed testosterone by a trans doctor, I felt the heavy weight of dysphoria dissipate. I felt seen and welcomed. I finally felt like I could live life to its full potential, a new beginning. This care needs to be given without hurdles or judgment. It saved my life. l...
It didn’t stop when I finally accessed hormones, either. Instead, transmedicalists had decided I was lying about that. When I posted a photo of me holding my testosterone gel, they suggested it wasn’t my prescription, and then they decided that because I hadn’t had surg...
When I was prescribed testosterone by a trans doctor, I felt the heavy weight of dysphoria dissipate. I felt seen and welcomed. I finally felt like I could live life to its full potential, a new beginning. This care needs to be given without hurdles or judgment. It saved my life. l...
The right-wing crusade against transgender people has led to an assault on this lifesaving treatment. Here, Cosmopolitan talks to five young trans people around the country about how, in reality, the health care changed their whole world.
Rates of VTE in the literature for transgender women on estrogen therapy for testosterone suppression range from 0% to 6% [13,17,18]. Protocols on the use of estrogen in transgender women should consider additional VTE risk factors such as smoking, hypercoagulable disorders and cancer diagnosis ...