Hormone Therapies >>
The general process of supplementing a woman's natural hormones is often called hormone replacement therapy or HRT. The oldest form of supplemental hormones is estrogen. When estrogen is taken alone...

Cross-sex hormone treatment in female-to-male transsexuals annihilation of female characteristics >>
The effects of estrogens on physical characteristics cannot be annihilated by antihormones. Antiestrogens administered to eugonadal women stimulate gonadotropin and subsequently ovarian hormone secr...

Which hormones and which dose? >>
For each aspects of hormone treatment exists a large array of (semi) synthetic sex steroids. There are no solid literature data to prove certain hormonal drugs superior in efficacy to others. Only t...

Requirements for hormone therapy for adults >>
The Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association provides the eligibility and readiness criteria for transgender adults seeking hormone therapy: Eligibility</stro...

The endocrine system >>
Two body systems control all physiologic processes via a process of messaging-the nervous system with its electrical point-to-point control via nerves, and our system of interest-the endocrine syste...

The biochemistry of gender >>
Since we are concerned with hormonal reassignment, defining the term, hormone, is an appropriate place to begin. Hormones are substances, usually a peptide or steroid, produced by one tissue and con...

What are Hormones? >>
Hormones are the chemical messengers of the body, manufactured and controlled by the endocrine system. There are many different hormones with many different functions in the body, from water retenti...

Reducing Hormone Replacement Risks >>
Check for existing medical problems before starting hormone treatment. People with existing medical problems may be more likely to experience serious or fatal consequences of cross-sex hormonal trea...

FTM Surgery >>
Elective bilateral mastectomy Elective bilateral mastectomy (FTM), the removal or reduction of the breasts (also called reduction mammoplasty, or "top surgery"), in...