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What if I take drugs? Will that affect my treatment?
We always advise against you taking recreational drugs. However, that would not stop us from being able to recommend gender-affirming medication for you. Read More: Lifestyle and Gender-Affirming Medication: Is It Safe to Start?
Is finasteride safe for under 18s?
In trans girls and transfeminine adolescents, finasteride is a medicine that may sometimes be prescribed for puberty suppression if there is a good reason why other antiandrogens, such as GnRH analogues and spironolactone, cannot be used. Finasteride ...
Is it safe to take Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)?
Switching your hormone profile from one to the other is surprisingly safe. If you're switching to an estrogen profile, you'll have the same chance of developing illnesses that someone who was assigned female at birth will have. If you're switching to ...
Will hormones and other puberty-suppressing drugs also be banned?
There will be many people who would love to see this happen, but even the current UK puberty blocker ban seems to be very tenuous and maybe even illegal. Who knows what they will try and do, but they have to be lawful. If they attempt to ban further ...
I have a medical condition. How can I tell if it's safe for me to take gender-affirming medications?
GenderGP uses a questionnaire to identify medical conditions that might affect the safety of taking certain medications. For example: - People with heart disease won’t be recommended spironolactone. - People with liver disease won’t be recommended ...