[TRANSGENDER ENDOCRINOLOGY].

Harefuah

Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer.

Published: September 2019

Clinical encounters with transgender people seeking hormonal treatment for gender reaffirmation, provide an opportunity, besides engagement in the endocrine dilemmas, to challenge the binary pattern of thinking and reveal many fascinating and complex matters of transgender medicine: human, philosophical and political. The current review of the subject is presented by an endocrinologist engaged in hormonal treatment of transgender people.

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