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Introduction Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) adolescents experience a gender identity that is different from the gender assigned at birth and this often results in severe psychological distress, defined as gender dysphoria (GD). Although
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Introduction Transgender (trans) individuals, including those who are binary and/or non-binary identified, undergoing feminising hormone therapy are often treated with oestradiol with or without anti-androgen therapy. Treatment allows the
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Introduction Estradiol (17β-estradiol) is a natural sex steroid available in several exogenous preparations. The Endocrine Society recommended high-dose exogenous estradiol treatment as one part of feminizing hormone therapy for transgender
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testosterone-dependent group are transgender people looking for masculinization. These people are birth-assigned female but identify as male or non-binary. To induce virilization, testosterone therapy is prescribed. This includes deepening of the voice
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, whereas the evidence from studies in humans is only indirect. Transgender individuals are characterized by incongruence between gender identity and visible sexual anatomy and may identify as a different gender from the one assigned at birth (i.e. a
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of transgender men (born women) is not associated with a procoagulant state ( 26 ) and TRT given to castrated male rats normalizes the castration-induced increase in prothrombin and coagulation factor VII (FVII) concentrations ( 27 ). Earlier studies