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Gender Dysphoria Medical Treatment and Its Bioethical Implications
Gender Dysphoria Medical Treatment and Its Bioethical Implications
can cause people to experience severe social and personal distress and impairment.
Gender role transition, hormone therapy, and sex reassignment surgery allow for
these individuals to adapt their external appearance to what they feel internally.
� Aggressiveness
� Enhanced sex drive
� Intensification of the voice
� Increased physical hair growth
� Number of red blood cells increases
� Growth of the beard and mustache
� Increased muscle strength and weigh
� Acne production identical to male puberty
After consumption of a few doses, the feminizing effects of estrogen and the
masculinizing effects of testosterone may come into sight. However, this is
particularly
true for the growth of the breasts.
Conclusion
Still, today professionals involved in the treatment of gender dysphoria continue
to face major bioethical obstacles and dilemmas. An interdisciplinary approach is
needed to overcome such issues. Additionally, other sensitive issues are associated
with wellbeing of transgender youth, fertility, parenting of these individuals,
and the likelihood of regret after the irreversible part of the treatment of gender
reassignment surgery.