Trans women taking hormones are up to 95 per cent more likely to suffer heart disease. In a new study, researchers found that trans women - people born male who identify as women - taking gender-affirming hormones are almost twice as likely to suffer from any cardiovascular disease as men. The new data is published in the European Journal of Endocrinology.
The study revealed that all transgender people regardless of the sex they were born or the gender they were transitioning to, were at "significantly increased risk" from deadly conditions like heart attacks, strokes, high blood pressure and high blood fat and cholesterol levels.
The experts looked at the health of 2,671 transgender people from Denmark over a five-year period with an average age of 22 and 26 for trans men and women respectively. They compared the incidence of cardiovascular disease with a control group of 26,700 people and presented the results to the European Association for the Study of Diabetes.
People who were "assigned male at birth" and taking oestrogen as a trans woman, were 93 per cent more likely to suffer from cardiovascular disease than men and 73 per cent more likely than women. The incidence rate was around three per cent for trans women, up from around 1.5 per cent for men and 1.7 per cent for women.
Higher risk of type 2 diabetes
Trans men, who were "assigned female at birth", but were taking testosterone were 63 per cent more likely to have some form of heart disease than women, and more than double as likely than men.
In this group, the incident rate was around 1.7 per cent for trans men up from 1.1 per cent in women and 0.8 per cent in men.
Dr Dorte Glintborg, lead author from Odense University Hospital, Denmark, said "around a third" of the increased risk in trans men was due to taking hormones. She said:
"Hormone treatments such as oestrogen will increase fat mass and lower lean body mass, and increased oestrogen is usually associated with increased risk of autoimmune disease and inflammation."Dr Glintborg said this meant there was also a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes as a result but this was not confirmed by all studies.
However, the contribution of hormones in trans women to their risk of heart disease was not as clear cut, she said.
She also expressed concern about trans women self-medicating with cyproterone acetate to suppress the side effects of hormone (testosterone) therapy and called for more research into the effects of medications used by trans people.
I had a close friend when I was about 28, 29 years old. In fact he rented a room from my ex and I.
He worked construction and was about 6'2" tall, weighed 190-200 lbs. was solid not fat, not shredded. He mostly did road construction work. Full beard, super hairy chest and everything scream testosterone. Much to my surprise he told me that when he was born hisn genitals were extremely under developed and the Dr's attempted to convince his parents to turn him into a female and give him hormones the rest of his life. The parents declined, said lets just let this play out naturally. I never saw his genitals yet my ex mentioned he got drunk one night and decided to display his equipment in a bar somewhere and he passed on that while he was definitely a male he was short changed by Mother Nature in this department. This ovviously had no effect on the rest of his hormones, etc. He went on to marry and produce children.
I guess I'm just sick & tired of all this trans BS. All of a sudden, like a lightning bolt hitting 100 cows under a tree taking shelter from the storm we are overwhelmed with trans children, adult, etc. Like someone flipped a toggle switch. Besides the fact that the amphibians were the canaries in the coal mine years ago, we're swimming in estrogen everywhere you turn. So, the priming & prodding and one might think perhaps a 'frequency' of sorts is being broadcast to prompt/motivate these folks . That and a HUGE financial incentive being offered to Dr's, hospitals, psychologists, the Tavistock Institute, etc., etc.
Forgive me....I have zero sympathy. and last but not least let me throw in the woo factor! If in fact you do choose your parents when you reincarnate along with your sex, so that you can learn certain lessons in this lifetime......wouldn't a past life regression therapy session or two be 'de rigueur ' before anatomical reorientation took place, because guess what you made the choice to be in that body.