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The #findings from this #research, carried out by #AmsterdamUMC, not only help #researchers further understand the #role #sexhormones play on the #skeleton but may also improve #counselling on #genderaffirming #treatment in #transgender #people.
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Hormone therapy and puberty blockers alter skeletal size in transgender individuals
Skeletal size may be altered by gender-affirming hormone therapy only if puberty has also been suppressed during adolescence, according to research presented at the 62nd Annual European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology Meeting in Liverpool.