Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The incidence of people presenting to gender services is increasing rapidly the case load appears to double every 5 years.This equates to a an estimated incidence of between 1:7440(10) to 1:30,000 for natal males and 1:31,153(10) to 1:10000 for natal females making this a relatively common disorder. The aim of therapy is threefold to suppress the production of the natal sex steroids, provide sufficient hormone levels for the development of the secondary sexual ch...