Transitioning – TGmeds

There is a spectrum of what transitioning looks like for different people. It can range from simply socially presenting (clothes, hair, mannerisms, overall gender expression) as the gender with which they identify, to use of hormones, to surgical procedures to modify the physical body.
Transitioning is the term used to describe someone taking up a gender role and/or presentation that is different from the one they were assigned at birth and may or may not involve medical intervention. Transition may include some or all of the following: social, legal and medical adjustments, telling one’s family, friends, and/or colleagues, changing one’s name and/or sex on legal documents, voice therapy and changing one’s style of dress.