Aprilrain
05-05-2011, 01:18 PM
Here is an excerpt from the Harry Benjamin Standards of Care
Regardless of how one feels about the SOC it is the definitive authority that most medical professionals will use in the treatment of transsexualism. Apparently the doctors treating us also feel that these MEDICAL THERAPIES are more than just window dressing.
Reasons for Hormone Therapy. Cross-sex hormonal treatments play an important role in the anatomical and psychological gender transition process for properly selected adults with gender identity disorders. These hormones are medically necessary for rehabilitation in the new gender. They improve the quality of life and limit psychiatric co-morbidity which often accompanies lack of treatment. When physicians administer androgens to biologic females and estrogens, progesterone, and/or testosterone-blocking agents to biologic males, patients feel and appear more like members of their aspired-to sex.
Regardless of how one feels about the SOC it is the definitive authority that most medical professionals will use in the treatment of transsexualism. Apparently the doctors treating us also feel that these MEDICAL THERAPIES are more than just window dressing.
Reasons for Hormone Therapy. Cross-sex hormonal treatments play an important role in the anatomical and psychological gender transition process for properly selected adults with gender identity disorders. These hormones are medically necessary for rehabilitation in the new gender. They improve the quality of life and limit psychiatric co-morbidity which often accompanies lack of treatment. When physicians administer androgens to biologic females and estrogens, progesterone, and/or testosterone-blocking agents to biologic males, patients feel and appear more like members of their aspired-to sex.