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Hormone Therapy that Honors Your Identity

We provide accurate information and compassionate care for our gender-diverse community. Services range from our Gender-Affirming Service to support those aligning their bodies with their identity to Hormone Therapy for patients with menopause, low testosterone, or other hormone-related conditions. 


All are Welcome!

Services Offered

Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy

PHC provides hormone therapy to support people in aligning their physical characteristics with their gender identity. Care is offered using an informed-consent model, meaning you’ll receive clear information about risks and benefits before beginning treatment. Ongoing monitoring through lab work and follow-up visits helps ensure safety and effectiveness. 


Options may include:

  • Testosterone
  • Estrogen
  • Anti-androgens
  • Progestins

Hormone Therapy

Hormone Therapy is not only for gender transition, PHC provides for medical needs as wells. Treatment plans are tailored to improve overall health, relieve symptoms, and restore balance, with careful monitoring and patient education. 


Hormone Therapy can assist with:

  • Menopause symptom management
  • Perimenopause symptom management
  • Low testosterone
  • Adrenal insufficiency 
  • Help prevent bone loss and osteoporosis

Surgery Referrals & Support

While PHC doesn’t perform surgeries on site, we can help patients access gender-affirming surgical procedures by providing referrals to trusted surgeons. We also assist with letters of support, paperwork, and guidance on preparing for surgery and recovery. Our team can connect patients to additional resources, including counseling and community supports. 

Telehealth & In-Person Visits

Many of our services are available via telehealth, offering safe, convenient access from home. Initial consultations, follow-up visits, prescription management, and some counseling can be done virtually. In-person appointments are available for lab work, physical exams, and procedures that require hands-on care. 

Routine Sexual & Reproductive Health Care

Our clinics provide confidential and inclusive sexual and reproductive health services for people of all genders. This may include STI testing and treatment, birth control options, Pap and HPV screening, pregnancy testing, and general preventive care. Whether you’re transgender, nonbinary, or cisgender, your sexual and reproductive health needs are treated with the same respect and attention. 

Common Terms

Gender Identity

A person’s internal sense of their own gender, which may or may not align with their sex assigned at birth. 

Gender Expression

How a person presents their gender through clothing, behavior, voice, or appearance.

Cisgender

A person whose gender identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth. 

Gender Nonconforming

A person whose gender expression does not fit societal expectations for their assigned sex. 

Non-Binary

A gender identity outside the traditional categories of male or female. 

Gender-Affirming Care

Medical, mental health, and social support that helps transgender and non-binary people live in alignment with their gender identity. 

Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)

Medications (e.g., estrogen or testosterone) used to align physical characteristics with gender identity. 

Pronouns

Words (he/him, she/her, they/them, etc.) used to refer to someone, reflecting their gender identity. 

Deadnaming

Referring to a transgender person by their birth name after they have changed it as part of their transition. 

Misgendering

Using incorrect pronouns or gendered terms for someone.

Social Transition

Changing name, pronouns, clothing, or other aspects of presentation to align with gender identity. 

Transgender

A person whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth. 

Transition

The process a transgender person may undergo to live in alignment with their gender identity, which can include social, legal, and medical steps. 

Frequently Asked Questions

Gender-affirming care is a broad approach to health care and support that recognizes and respects an individual’s gender identity, ensuring that all individuals can live healthy, fulfilling lives by addressing their unique needs.


Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) uses prescription forms of estrogen or testosterone, the same hormones naturally produced by cisgender men and women. These medications are safely used worldwide for a range of medical conditions and can be prescribed to both youth and adults under medical supervision.


HRT is medically safe, the effects of which are partially or fully reversible depending on duration of use, and the informed consent process includes a review of benefits, risks, and fertility considerations. HRT is typically started at age 18 or older, though late adolescents may begin with physician approval, parental consent, and their own informed consent (often after puberty blockers or social transition).


For many transgender and non-binary people, HRT is an important part of transition, helping align physical appearance with gender identity and reducing gender dysphoria, depression, anxiety, and suicidality.


Gender-affirming care, sometimes called transition-related care, is health care for transgender and non-binary people of all ages. It includes mental health support, medical care, and social services, all guided by clear, evidence-based standards. This care helps people live authentically, safely, and healthily.


Care decisions are made in age-appropriate, evidence-based ways, involving doctors, patients, and often parents. Every major U.S. medical and mental health organization, including the AMA, AAP, and APA, recognizes gender-affirming care as medically necessary.


Bans on gender-affirming care for youth have harmful consequences. These laws prevent families and providers from making medical decisions supported by every major medical authority and deny young people the care they need.


Even the existence of such legislation worsens mental health, increasing fear and anxiety among LGBTQ+ youth, especially transgender and non-binary youth, and also negatively impacts LGBTQ+ adults.


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