Transgender people receiving gender-affirming hormone therapy have a 37% lower chance of acquiring HIV, and for people living with HIV, hormone therapy appears to offer a 44% lower chance of the virus ...

A federal judge has ruled that transgender inmates in U.S. prisons must continue getting medical care, including hormone therapy and gender-affirming accommodations. The decision blocks parts of an ...

Gender-affirming hormone therapy may not only help transgender and nonbinary individuals physically—it could also improve their mental health, new research suggests. "Trans people experience mental ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. close up of transgender flag pin on doctors coat stethoscope shown There's simply no denying that gender-affirming care is ...

Judge Victoria Marie Calvert last week ruled in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia that a new state law denying hormone therapy to inmates violated their protection against ...

The informed consent model involves healthcare professionals providing information to people so they can make informed decisions about their own healthcare. For transgender adults, this model enables ...

The government had argued that a “pendulum swing” in the medical consensus justified treating trans inmates with psychotherapy and antidepressants instead. By Amy Harmon See more of our coverage in ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The University of Texas at Austin told its transgender students this week that the school’s campus clinic would soon stop providing hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, as part of its ...