Endocrine Abstracts

Sex steroids have complex effects: testosterone predominantly regulates trabecular and estradiol, cortical bone1. Studies in transgender individuals use insensitive technology and report conflicting effects2. We hypothesized estradiol therapy will increase cortical volumetric bone mineral density (vBMD) in male-to-female (MtF) individuals and testosterone therapy will increase trabecular vBMD in female-to-male (FtM) individuals.Aims...