Once you find a clinician, "discuss and outline your medical history with them, including preexisting conditions, family history, allergies, and other medications you may be taking," says Golding-Granado. For example, some healthcare professionals require a well-documented history of gender dysphoria before prescribing or approving gender affirming interventions like hormone therapy. Generally speaking, access to gender affirming care — which includes testosterone therapy — is limited to consenting adults ages 18 and older. Some healthcare professionals specialize in working with cisgender men with low testosterone, while others specialize in providing gender affirming care. These platforms also offer the option to connect virtually with a trans-inclusive healthcare professional, so you can ask your personal questions to figure out whether testosterone therapy is right for you. "Testosterone therapy can be taken as part of gender affirming care for transgender men and in gender diverse people to bring about physical changes that align with their gender identity," says Golding-Granado. We're looking for any patients who are receiving estrogen or testosterone therapy at Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts to join our quarterly patient participation group with other trans, non-binary, and gender-expansive patients. At Planned Parenthood of Florida, we believe everyone, regardless of gender identity or expression has a right to access health care and make decisions about their own bodies, lives, and futures. Planned Parenthood of Florida offers gender-affirming hormone therapy to adults. Many providers that offer gender affirming care on an informed-consent model — like FOLX, Plume, and Planned Parenthood — have a robust library of articles designed to answer the most frequently asked questions. Often, people who are looking to sustain certain changes will take testosterone therapy for the rest of their lives. "It’s important to fully understand the risks and benefits of any therapy, including testosterone therapy, which may be ongoing for months to years," she says. For a variety of reasons — ranging from gender identity to desired aesthetic to improved sexual function — sometimes people need or want higher testosterone levels than their bodies naturally have. Transgender and transmasculine folks looking to achieve and sustain certain changes often use testosterone therapy long term. If you are on hormone therapy, you can utilize the health center for ongoing care and monitoring. Testosterone therapy is used for as long as a person and their healthcare team feels that it benefits them and affirms their gender, says Forcier. Several U.S. states have laws designed to restrict adolescent and adult access to gender affirming care. For our gender-affirming hormone services, we see patients 16 and over. We use qualitative data, including session replay, to learn about your user experience and improve our products and services. We can start or continue gender-affirming hormone therapy and provide referrals for gender-qualified therapy and resources if needed. We offer gender-affirming hormone therapy for transmasculine, transfeminine, non-binary, and gender diverse individuals. PPLM has partnered with the creative visual and design firm AMIR NOW INC. and local members of the transgender community on this multimedia visual campaign titled "My Care. See "For Patients" to learn more about our wide range of services. We have billing staff ready to help figure out costs and payments for this service for both insured and uninsured patients. You will still have to make an appointment for an initial Hormone Therapy visit so that we can go through our Informed Consent form with you. Depending on your medical history, we will either prescribe the hormones to you at your first visit or ask you to get some lab work done at a local diagnostic center. At this appointment, we will discuss your goals for treatment, go through the Informed Consent forms, review your medical history, and answer any questions you have about medication options. If you are under 16, we can refer you to other Massachusetts providers who can give you hormonal care. For patients who are 16 and 17, we require a parent/guardian consent.
