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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Nicola Davis Science correspondent

‘We actually don’t know much’: the scientists trying to close the knowledge gap in trans healthcare

Dr Sofia Forslund-Startceva and seven colleagues
Dr Sofia Forslund-Startceva (centre) with some of her team. She is running research that could help to achieve personalised medicine. Photograph: supplied

When Cameron Whitley was diagnosed with kidney failure seven years ago, the news came as a shock. But the situation was about to get worse. His doctor decided the diagnosis meant Whitley’s hormone therapy had to stop.

As a transgender man, now 42, who had taken testosterone for 10 years, the impact was brutal.

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