At Planned Parenthood of Florida, we believe everyone, regardless of gender identity or expression has a right to access health care and make decisions about their own bodies, lives, and futures. Planned Parenthood of Florida offers gender-affirming hormone therapy to adults. Many providers that offer gender affirming care on an informed-consent model — like FOLX, Plume, and Planned Parenthood — have a robust library of articles designed to answer the most frequently asked questions. Often, people who are looking to sustain certain changes will take testosterone therapy for the rest of their lives. "It’s important to fully understand the risks and benefits of any therapy, including testosterone therapy, which may be ongoing for months to years," she says. For a variety of reasons — ranging from gender identity to desired aesthetic to improved sexual function — sometimes people need or want higher testosterone levels than their bodies naturally have. Transgender and transmasculine folks looking to achieve and sustain certain changes often use testosterone therapy long term. If you are on hormone therapy, you can utilize the health center for ongoing care and monitoring. Testosterone therapy is used for as long as a person and their healthcare team feels that it benefits them and affirms their gender, says Forcier. Several U.S. states have laws designed to restrict adolescent and adult access to gender affirming care. For our gender-affirming hormone services, we see patients 16 and over. We use qualitative data, including session replay, to learn about your user experience and improve our products and services. We can start or continue gender-affirming hormone therapy and provide referrals for gender-qualified therapy and resources if needed. We offer gender-affirming hormone therapy for transmasculine, transfeminine, non-binary, and gender diverse individuals. The DEA has extended the COVID-19 Telehealth prescribing flexibilities until December 31, 2025. For more information, patients can email email protected. We want to hear your feedback to help our program improve and grow! Whatever lies ahead, our care and commitment to you will continue - no matter what. We use online advertising to promote our mission and help constituents find our services. PPLM has partnered with the creative visual and design firm AMIR NOW INC. and local members of the transgender community on this multimedia visual campaign titled "My Care. See "For Patients" to learn more about our wide range of services. We have billing staff ready to help figure out costs and payments for this service for both insured and uninsured patients. You will still have to make an appointment for an initial Hormone Therapy visit so that we can go through our Informed Consent form with you. Depending on your medical history, we will either prescribe the hormones to you at your first visit or ask you to get some lab work done at a local diagnostic center. PPLM is now providing surgical support letters to established patients who are seeking gender affirmation surgery. In the event of changes that would require us to shift any of our services, we will send MyChart messages to current patients and update our website accordingly. Planned Parenthood Federation of America uses tracking technologies to improve your site experience. Please click the button that corresponds to the care you will receive to read the form you will sign at your appointment. The Florida Board of Medicine requires that every gender-affirming care patient complete an informed consent form in-person with their doctor. We will continue to monitor updates to care and work to continue to care for all our patients in compliance with the law. Worsened sleep and hair growth patterns, including hair loss, have also been reported. "Testosterone therapy can affect fertility, depending on the age you start treatment," says Golding-Granado. "This discussion should include what your potential benefits or side effects and long-term health implications could be."
