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Transgender hormone therapy of the male-to-female type (MTF), also known as feminizing hormone therapy, is hormone therapy and sex reassignment therapy to change the secondary sexual characteristics of transgender people from masculine (or androgynous) to feminine. It is one of two types of transgender hormone therapy (the other being female-to-male) and is predominantly used to treat transgender women and other transfeminine individuals. Some intersex people also take this form of therapy, according to their personal needs and preferences.

The purpose of the therapy is to cause the development of the secondary sex characteristics of the desired sex, such as breasts and a feminine pattern of hair, fat, and muscle distribution. It cannot undo many of the changes produced by naturally occurring puberty, which may necessitate surgery and other treatments to reverse (see below). The medications used for the MTF therapy include estrogens, antiandrogens, progestogens, and gonadotropin-releasing hormone modulators (GnRH modulators)...

Gloria (right) with brother Patrick and father Ernest in Finca Vigía, Cuba, in 1942

Gloria Hemingway (born Gregory Hancock Hemingway, November 12, 1931 – October 1, 2001) was an American physician and writer who was the third and youngest child of author Ernest Hemingway. Although she was born a male and lived most of her life publicly as a man, she struggled with her gender identity from a young age. In her 60s, she underwent gender transition surgery, and preferred the name Gloria when possible.

A good athlete and a crack shot, Gloria longed to be a typical Hemingway hero and trained as a professional hunter in Africa, but her alcoholism prevented her from gaining a license, and it ultimately cost her her medical license in the United States. Gloria maintained a long-running feud with her father, stemming from a 1951 incident when her arrest for entering a bar in drag caused an argument between Ernest and Gloria's mother Pauline Pfeiffer. Pfeiffer died from a stress-related condition the following day, which Ernest blamed on Gloria.

• ... that, among migrants, transgender asylum seekers are more likely to be subjected to physical and mental abuse?
• ... that the veto of an Indiana law that bans transgender girls from participating in school sports was overridden by the state legislature?
• ... that transgender pioneer Barbara Ann Wilcox proposed to her husband on the day she met him?
• ... that after discovering her child was transgender, Thamirys Nunes created an organization dedicated to defending transgender youth?
• ... that Sher Machado created a League of Legends tournament exclusively for transgender people?
• ... that The Cock Destroyers released a trans-inclusive sex education video for Netflix before hosting Slag Wars: The Next Destroyer?

• 2 – Dana International (1969), Israeli transgender pop singer
• 7 – Eddie Izzard (1962), English comic, actor and writer
• 17 – Harisu (1975), South Korean singer, model and actress
• 19 – Danielle Bunten Berry (1949-1998), American game designer and programmer
• 19 – Lea T (1981), Brazilian model
• 20 – Calpernia Addams (1971), American actress
• 20 – Tamara Adrián (1954), Venezuelan politician
• 21 – Michelle Suárez Bértora (1983), transgender Uruguayan politician
• 21 – Elliot Page (1987), Canadian actor
• 22 – Genesis P-Orridge (1950-2020), English third gender singer, songwriter, musician, performance artist
• 29 – Lena Raine (1984), American composer known for writing the Celeste, Deltarune, and other soundtracks.

• ... that on June 15th, 2020, the United States Supreme Court decided in Bostock v. Clayton County that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects employees against discrimination because of their sexual orientation or gender identity?
• ... that Tessa Ganserer is the first openly transgender person to serve in a German parliament?
• ... that after law school, Chase Strangio, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a trans man, worked as a public defender for Dean Spade, the first openly trans law professor in the US?

I may have a beard, and manly limbs and body, yet confined by these, I am and remain a woman.