Just .1% of children ages 8 to 17 who identify as transgender or gender-diverse were prescribed gender-affirming hormones or puberty blockers, according to a study by researchers at Harvard ...

In fact, doctors there had been prescribing hormones and performing ... As a trans woman and a scholar of transgender history, I have spent much of the past decade studying these issues. I also take ...

However, many transgender people, particularly binary transgender people, turn to hormones to affirm their ... but other formations are available, including pills and creams.

Estrogen comes in skin patches and pills. Testosterone is available ... to make informed medical decisions. Many transgender people take the hormones for life. If the medication is stopped ...

But little is known about hormone use among transgender and gender diverse adolescents. The researchers analyzed private insurance claims data from 2018 to 2022, representing more than 5.1 million ...

“The politicization of gender-affirming care for transgender youth has been driven by a narrative that millions of children are using hormones and that this type of care is too freely give ...