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Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy

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Gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT), also known as transgender hormone therapy, is a form of hormone therapy in which sex hormones and other hormonal medications are administered to transgender or gender-nonconforming people to more closely align their secondary sexual characteristics with their gender identity. It is given as one of two types depending on the goal of treatment: masculinizing hormone therapy, using androgens and sometimes antiestrogens, or feminizing hormone therapy, using estrogens with or without antiandrogens.

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Gender dysphoria in children (Wikipedia)
Treated By: Gender dysphoria in children, Treatment
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cross-sex hormones (i.e., administering estrogen to a child assigned male at birth or testosterone to a child assigned female at birth)
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