Okay, I am just wondering, because it has been bothering me lately, what is the average life-span of a male to female transsexual?
I've just heard that it is really short.
I just always thought that the estrogen treatments and all that shortened your life expectancy (I'm talking post-op here)
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mmmmm,OK I will give this a go.
Of all the glbt community tg/ts have the highest rate of suicide.Alot has to to with the way society treats us.Since many of us cannot get work to support ourselves in our chosen gender some often end up on the seedier parts of town selling ourselves.
When put into an environment such as this death is very common,drugs,prostitution,alcohol.
As for life span we have a better chance of longer lives,ie prostate cancer,but that's different research.We can and do have long and prosperous life spans.
happy trails
karynm8621
If you go on averages then you would be correct. That is because transsexuals have a much higher rate of suicide than any other group. When you take that vs the % of the people that are trans I'm sure that it would appear that life spans are shorter on paper.. it's all about averages
george3
I haven't heard anything about trans women's lives being shorter.
I know this much:
-biological females on average live longer than bio males.
-I've heard that testosterone shortens life span (and I think there are other factors that make women's life span on average longe. testosterone is hard on your body, your cardiac muscle, liver and other organs)
-it is true that female-to-male transsexuals lives get shortened by taking testosterone.
My completely non-expert conclusion: I don't think trans women's life expectancy gets shorter by taking estrogen/progesterone
Anonymous
Its the same as any ohter human being. All thas changed is thier reproductive parts. Thier lives may be shortened by the complications of the medications/steriods that they will have to take for the rest of thier lives.
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I don't know, but I am 63 that 40 year after