Article 6KECP ‘We actually don’t know much’: the scientists trying to close the knowledge gap in trans healthcare

‘We actually don’t know much’: the scientists trying to close the knowledge gap in trans healthcare

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Nicola Davis Science correspondent
from Science | The Guardian on (#6KECP)

Researchers are running trials on how hormone therapies affect trans people that will also benefit healthcare for the wider population

When Cameron Whitley was diagnosed with kidney failure seven years ago, the news came as a shock. But the situation was about to get worse. His doctor decided the diagnosis meant Whitley's hormone therapy had to stop.

As a transgender man, now 42, who had taken testosterone for 10 years, the impact was brutal.

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