Here’s How Hormone Therapy Aids Gender Transition

hoi polloi who are transition sex want to look like the sex they ’re transitioning to . Hormone therapy can help with that , since the characteristics that help oneself us distinguish men and woman by sight — breasts , proportional muscleman mass , the shape of the face , and so off — are created by the sex hormones our gonads start secreting at puberty .

Both sex make testosterone and estrogen , but in different proportion : men have more testosterone , women more estrogen . The latest Reactions video from the American Chemical Society explicate how readapt the dimension of these hormones in their soundbox helps trans men and womanhood start to shift the way they look .

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