A new study highlights just how flexible the human body can be by demonstrating that in adult transgender women receiving gender-affirming hormone therapy , several key proteins became altered to more closely match their forms in cisgender women. As well as changing the way someone’s body looks on the surface, the results show that feminizing hormones have impacts at a molecular level, with implications for susceptibility to various health conditions. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

The study, led by scientists at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) in Victoria, Australia, included 40 adult trans women receiving one of two common forms of gender-affirming hormone treatment: estradiol, coupled with either

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