When Dylan Brandt looks back on the time before he started receiving gender-affirming care, he remembers feeling trapped “in a pretty bad place.” He wasn’t comfortable leaving the house, and he struggled with anxiety and depression.
It was right around his 15th birthday that Brandt began hormone therapy. He says the treatment was “lifesaving.”
“When I started these hormones, not only did it change my physical appearance, but it changed my mind,” Brandt, now 17, says. “I felt better because I was looking better. I felt free. I felt happy.”
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