Welcome to
Hormone Transitions
Our practice is dedicated to help and guide transgender individuals in a process of medical transition, especially gender affirming hormonal therapy.
Our Mission
Is to inspire, support and encourage you to pursue your gender affirming goals.
Our medical expertise combined with evidence based information is the ideal formula to help you attain and maintain your gender affirming goals while supporting your health and wellness
About us
Our practice is dedicated to help and guide transgender individuals in a process of medical transition, especially gender affirming hormonal therapy GAHT.
Gender identities and expressions are diverse.
Being transgender does not mean any specific sexual orientation. Transgender people may identify themselves as straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, nonbinary, etc.
Sexual orientation is
an intrinsic or invariable emotional, romantic or sexual attraction to other people regardless of gender idenrity.
Gender identity is
one's own concept of self as male, female, a combination of both or neither, it is how individuals perceive themselves and what they call themselves. One's gender identity can be the same or different from their sex assigned at birth.
Gender transition is
The process by which some people attempt to more closely align their internal feeling of gender with its outward appearance.
Transgender
Is a term to describe people whose gender identity or expression is different from social and cultural expectations based on the sex they were assigned at birth.
Gender expression is
an external appearance of one's gender identity, most of the time asserted through behavior, clothes one wears, hair style or voice, and may or may not conform to socially recognized behaviors and characteristics typically associated with being masculine or feminine
What is Gender Affirming Hormone therapy (GAHT)
Hormone therapy is an effective option available to assist people with achieving satisfaction with desired selfidentity.
Gender identity is the very personal concept of self as male or female, both or neither. It is how individuals view and percive themselves. Gender identity can correlate with a person’s assigned sex or can differ from it.
Gender expression reflects one’s external apperance (such as choices in clothing, haircut, voice etc. ) and behavior which may be different and nonconforming to what is socially associated with masculine or feminine.
The transgender person is someone who’s gender identity and expression is different from what is culturally expected based on the sex assigned at birth.
Transgender doesn’t mean any specific expressions of sexual orientation.
Wnen people undertake gender transition process, it is because they strive to be more closely alligned to their personal gender identification and express it through their external appeance and behavior.
When a person has a different sex assigned then the personal gender indentification, that can create significant emotional distress called gender disphoria.
Gender affirming hormone therapy GAHT offers significant benefits in improving gender dysphoria, emotional discomfort and stress.
People who undergo gender affirming hormone therapy GAHT report overall improvement in quality of life.
Transition to the desired gender identification can occur through medical, surgical, social and legal steps.
Madical transition includes gender affirming hormonal therapy (GAHT)
Surgical transition involves surgery to modify desired sex characteristics, such as breast augmentation.
Social transition happens through changing one’s apperance like hair style, clothing and pronouns.
Legal transition involves changing name and legal documents to reflect new gender identity
We sincerely appreciate the opportunity to be of service to you and we look forward to assisting you in accomplishing to your health goals.
We would like to congratulate you for making a commitment to your welbeing and thank you for your confidence in our practice.
We are dedicated to providing unparalleled, personalized medical care to our patients.
Our office is conveniently located on Chicago’s North Shore with easy access from major highways.