A new study, funded by the World Health Organization, has brought together the available evidence on healthcare for adults with gender incongruence. The main conclusion is clear: the medical care thes...
In the collective imagination, breast cancer is almost always associated with a particular patient profile. But the clinical reality is much broader and, for years, data on this disease in transgender...
The human body does not treat testosterone and oestradiol as mere messengers of reproduction: these hormones travel throughout the organism and also communicate with the immune system. A group of rese...
Gender-affirming hormone therapy has been the subject of debate for years, and one of the questions that most concerns the medical community is its effect on the heart and blood vessels. New research ...
Adolescence is the critical window in which most of the bone mass of a lifetime is accumulated. That is why any treatment that interferes with this process raises legitimate doubts. A new meta-analysi...
During adolescence, the body experiences one of the greatest hormonal reorganizations of life. For young people with gender dysphoria, that process can become an intense source of distress. A question...
What happens to the set of proteins circulating in the blood when a transgender person begins feminizing hormone therapy? An international team led from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute...
Can gender-affirming hormone treatment modify the personality traits of a transgender person? A recent study, published in 2026 in the journal Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology, addresses this qu...
The biological basis of gender incongruence remains a mystery, but the accumulated evidence points to hormonal and environmental factors acting during fetal development as potentially playing a releva...
The voice is one of the most visible markers of gender identity, and having it align with each person’s lived gender profoundly influences their psychological well-being. A new study published i...
Sex hormones influence many bodily processes beyond sexual characteristics, and one of the most relevant is insulin sensitivity—that is, the ability of cells to respond to this hormone and take up glu...
Hormone therapy is one of the cornerstones of gender-affirming treatment in people with gender incongruence, but many questions remain open about its medium- and long-term effects on health. A team fr...