Transgender men: clinical care and implications in reproductive medicine: introduction

Transgender men undergo gender-affirming hormone therapy and gender-affirming surgery to materialize their transition toward their desired gender.
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Transgender men: clinical care and implications in reproductive medicine: introduction

Gender dysphoria, a discrepancy between gender identity and genetically determined sex, is encountered in approximately 0.5% of people uniformly across the world. In the case of transgender men, formerly called female-to-male transsexuals, the available gender-affirming measures, hormone therapy and…

VOLUME 116, ISSUE 4, P919-921

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Dominique de Ziegler, M.D., Petra de Sutter, M.D., Ph.D.

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Gender dysphoria, a discrepancy between gender identity and genetically determined sex, is encountered in approximately 0.5% of people uniformly across the world. In the case of transgender men, formerly called female-to-male transsexuals, the available gender-affirming measures, hormone therapy and possible surgical procedures, are multiple and discussed in detail in this series of articles.

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