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Youth transition is mostly social, and many transgender young people never take medication.

Supportive care for a transgender teen can affect future fertility, and the degree depends on which parts of that care a young person pursues and for how long, according to Mayo Clinic and the Endocrine Society.

Estrogen therapy (also called feminizing hormone therapy) causes predictable physical changes alongside a set of monitored side effects; most reported effects are mild and managed through routine follow-up, according to Mayo Clinic.

Side effects of testosterone for trans teens fall into two groups that are reported as one: the changes the treatment is meant to produce and the unwanted effects clinicians watch for.

Transgender is an umbrella term for people whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.