Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy (GAHT) — sometimes called hormone replacement therapy (HRT) — is a medical treatment that helps align a person’s physical characteristics with their gender identity. It involves taking hormones (and sometimes hormone blockers) to develop secondary sex characteristics typically associated with one’s affirmed gender.
Various GAHT protocols have been used in treating gender dysphoria in adults safely and effectively for more than 80 years, with the delivery methods and formulations being constantly updated.
Today, gender-affirming hormone therapy is considered the gold standard for medical treatment of gender dysphoria.
GAHT is not part of a “sex change process”, even though Christian Nationalist and Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist-influenced (TERF) propaganda sources, and anti-trans, “gender critical” hate groups like the American College of Pediatricians and Genspect often use that perjorative language to gaslight the topic.
GAHT is one (optional) aspect of the best-practice gender transition process and has proven to be medically and psychologically effective at reducing negative mental health symptoms associated with gender dysphoria, such as:
Read Endocrine Society Guidelines (2017)
Read Pediatric Endocrine Society
“Introduction to Health for Trans Youth” (2020)
