GenderGP

While you wait on the NHS gender clinic waiting list, you can take real steps to look after yourself and move your journey forward. You can focus on your wellbeing, build support around you, gather useful information, and explore private options for gender-affirming care in the UK. The wait can feel long and frustrating, but you are not powerless, and you stay in control of y...

Masculinising hormone therapy uses testosterone to bring physical and emotional changes that align your body more closely with your gender identity. As part of gender affirming care in the UK, testosterone can deepen the voice, shift fat distribution, and prompt facial and body hair growth over months and years. This article explains what testosterone does, when to expect cha...

Feminising hormone therapy is a form of gender affirming care in the UK that uses oestrogen, usually alongside a medicine that lowers testosterone, to bring a person’s body more in line with their gender identity. It gradually softens skin, encourages breast growth, redistributes body fat and reduces some effects of testosterone. Changes happen slowly over months and years, a...