Sex reassignment surgery may be better for transgender women’s health than hormones only
Thursday, November 19, 2015 - 05:03
in Health & Medicine
Transgender women may be at a higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes compared with men and women in the general population. New research finds that transgender women who received only hormone therapy had poorer metabolic health than transgender women who underwent sex reassignment surgery in addition to receiving hormone therapy, suggesting that sex reassignment surgery may be metabolically protective.