![]() Their experiences reveal that the gulf between how society treats women and men is in many ways as wide now as it was when Barres transitioned. ![]() 'But the transgender men will go get jobs and the new boss doesn't even know they're trans.' We spoke with four men who transitioned as adults to the bodies in which they feel more comfortable. 'Within six months to a year they start to virilise - getting facial hair, a ruddier complexion, a change in body odour and a deepening of the voice.' Transgender women have more difficulty 'passing' they tend to be bigger-boned and more masculine-looking, and these things are hard to reverse with hormone treatments, Safer said. 'The transgender guys have a relatively straightforward process - we just simply add testosterone and watch their bodies shift,' said Joshua Safer, executive director at the Centre for Transgender Medicine and Surgery at Mount Sinai Health System and Icahn School of Medicine in New York.
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