Information On Transgender Health Services

By Marissa Velazquez


It is not a strange phenomenon that some people who were born male feel like they should be female while the others who were born female feel like they were meant to be males. This has brought about substantial debate on how to handle this class of people with regard to gender. With their ever-growing numbers, the society is compelled to accommodate them and provide to them the essential services too. This has even necessitated for the provision of transgender health services. Here are some therapeutic measures employed to attain the desired body for a male transforming to a woman.

Males are different from females physiologically, psychologically and emotionally because they were created to perform different roles. A man seeking to transform into a woman therefore has to undergo hormonal replacements. An expert should handle this exercise failure to which will lead to adverse effects on the patient body. The purpose for replacing these hormones is to change the secondary sexual characteristics of an individual.

Estrogen and testosterone are two hormones that bring the distinction between a male and a female. Men have higher levels of testosterone than females. Women on the other hand have higher levels of estrogen than their male counterparts. So a man wanting to transform into a woman will undergo a treatment aimed at increasing the levels of estrogen so as to have almost same quantity as those in an individual born a female. This hormone brings out most of the feminine characteristics such as menstrual cycle, moods and libido.

Another hormone is progesterone. This also plays a beneficial role to the womans body especially the skin and affects sexual urge. This is given to transwomen so that they can develop their breasts. The development includes the mammary glands, the alveoli just to mention some. This is an option for breast other than surgical methods that has also succeeded in other clients.

To effectively handle the hormone testosterone, substances with anti-androgen effects are used. They are introduced mainly to suppress the male hormone before the client undergoes a surgical process to remove testicles. The production is however not stopped with the presence of the testicles, but it is weakened so that the estrogen can substitute it in binding with the androgen receptors.

It is good to know that hormone replacement therapy cannot reverse the changes experienced by an individual during puberty. For instance, the location of body hair will require another procedure to deal with. This will diminish slowly over time with the falling levels of testosterone in the body. There are many other changes like the bone size and length which reaches the DNA predestined size at puberty.

Many people go through this therapeutic process but to attain the complete change one has to undergo surgical procedure. This process is aimed at changing the sexual organ to the desired gender. This is a delicate procedure that requires a qualified and experienced medical practitioner to attain proper functionality of the organ after the surgery.

You will agree that we cannot segregate this people since they are in our midst as family members and friends therefore we should be accommodative and provide good transgender health care to them. Stigmatization may push them to the edge leaving them with no option other than seeking health care from non professionals thus risking their lives. They can also explore herbal options to fulfill their dreams.




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