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And I'm your host, board certified female urologist, Dr. Kelly Casperson.

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and feel free to help other people. Okay. What advice do you have for a man who wants to start taking

hormones to transition to female? He said he's thought about it for two or three months. Thank you.

Great question. I would say see an expert about this because there are really great people who do this all the time.

And I don't think it's something that you just think about for two.

And I won't judge on like that's not enough time to think about it.

But I think a lot of people will do some things before they start hormone transitioning.

And to get some, you know, thought work, therapy, some coaching to make sure you're ready. That said, if you take a month

of hormones and it's not great, like you can always stop. These aren't, taking hormones is a

reversible, in most cases a reversible thing, certainly more reversible than a surgery to remove

hormone-producing organs in your body.

So, but to me, I would say, have somebody that is an expert in transitioning and an expert

in managing the hormones, and that person might not live in your town.

I don't think at this point, we actually in my town had a clinic that was useful, was helpful with this, and I think it died in COVID.

It died in COVID. I don't know specifically if it was COVID that did that.

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