BENEFITS OF GENDER AFFIRMING HORMONE THERAPY
Benefits Of Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy
MTF and FTM Hormone therapy improves transgender patients’ quality of life. It is also sometimes referred to as transgender hormone replacement therapy or THRT.
Hormone therapy modifies positively physiological stress as well.
Gender affirming hormonal therapy has positive effects on sexual function and mood, reducing gender dysphoria. Transgender people on hormone replacement therapy feel greater harmony with their perceived gender which allow them to feel more empowered and liberated.
Colizzi et al. looked at 70 transgender patients on hormone therapy and measured their cortisol levels as well as their perceived stress before and 12 months after starting hormone therapy. They found that after starting cross-sex hormones, both perceived stress and cortisol were significantly reduced. This finding also has important implications for treatment.
Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy have very positive effects on social functioning reducing stress and anxiety, allowing better expression of one’s personality, improving self esteem and body satisfaction, even improving cognitive tasks, performance and brain structure.
GAHT reduces body discomfort by alleviating the discrepancy between biological sex and desired gender.
GAHT-induced body modifications were significantly associated with a better psychological adjustment significant lessening of general psychopathology, depressive symptoms, and subjective (GD) gender dysphoria.
