Research shows that hormone therapy (often called “HRT”) and gender-affirming care save

Research shows that hormone therapy (often called “HRT”) and gender-affirming care save lives. Gender-affirming care is health care that affirms people to live authentically in their genders, no matter the gender they were assigned at birth or the path their gender affirmation (or transition) takes. It allows each person to seek only the changes or medical interventions they desire to affirm their own gender identity, and hormone therapy (“HRT” or gender-affirming hormone therapy) may be a part of that. Overwhelming evidence shows that such care greatly improves health outcomes for trans people. The evidence, and our lived experiences, show that when trans people get the gender-affirming care we need, the high rates of depression, anxiety, and suicide attempts that burden our community decrease substantially. -- source link

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