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Many states have enacted or contemplated limits or outright bans on transgender medical treatment, with conservative U.S. lawmakers saying they are worried about young people later regretting irreversible body-altering treatment.
In updated treatment guidelines issued last year, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health said evidence of later transition regret is scant, but that patients should be told about the possibility during psychological counseling.
How many youth change their appearances with hormones or surgery only to later change their minds and detransition?
Across the United States, thousands of youths are lining up for gender-affirming care. But when families decide to take the medical route, they must make decisions about life-altering treatments that have little scientific evidence of their long-term safety and efficacy.
By JACQUELINE MITCHELL | Beth Israel Deaconess April 20, 2021Research LightFieldStudios/iStock / Getty Images Plus Transgender people have a higher burden of cardiovascular disease and high blood pressure than cisgender people. Although doctors have prescribed gender-affirming hormone therapy to transgender men and transgender women for more than 25 years, little is known about how this treatment may impact rates of high blood pressure in this patient population or how the effects of hormone therapy on blood pressure may change over time. In the largest and longest observati...