Gender confirmation hormonal treatment use in young Polish transgender binary and non-binary persons.
Aneta M Gawlik-StarzykAleksandra AntoszKrzysztof KasparekZuzanna NowakBartosz GrabskiPublished in: Endokrynologia Polska (2022)
These treatments (including pubertal blocking) seem to be rarely commenced in Poland before the age of 18 years. In adults, treatment consists mostly of either testosterone or oestradiol, and cyproterone acetate and, more seldom, spironolactone are used as antiandrogens in persons assigned male at birth. In turn, gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists are barely used at all. Specialists need to be more aware that withholding treatment in minors with gender dysphoria is not a health-neutral option. Gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists should also be more often considered as an alternative to cyproterone acetate in the context of long-term safety.