For many trans people, hormones are as essential to their health as, for instance, diabetes or blood pressure medication is to anyone else. “I was never more depressed than I was before I started taking hormones,” Perez says. “It’s ridiculous, what some trans people, what most trans people, live on,” he continues. Like many trans people, he seemed to be the one guiding the professional who was supposed to be guiding him. “The medical curriculum has been lagging behind tremendously in the area of trans care,” says Fung, noting the recency of trans people being included in medical education on basic physiology.

Source: Huffington Post July 05, 2019 19:16 UTC