Does a transgender woman lose muscle mass?

Longitudinal studies examining the effects of testosterone suppression on muscle mass and strength in transgender women consistently show very modest changes, where the loss of lean body mass, muscle area and strength typically amounts to approximately 5\% after 12 months of treatment.

Do hormones change muscle mass?

Muscle loss (and an increase in body fat) is a common side effect of hormone therapy. Hormones tamp down the production of testosterone, a male hormone that plays a role in developing and maintaining muscle mass.

Do hormones affect transgender people’s body weight?

Studies by Maartje Klaver indicate that cross-sex hormone use in transgender people can affect total body weight, body fat, and lean body mass. Klaver’s study found these group average changes:

How do transgender bodies change body types?

Transgender women who take estrogen often find themselves gaining weight and losing muscle mass, and the body fat redistributes into a more typical female pattern. Transgender men taking testosterone may find their muscle mass increasing and their fat redistributing into a typical male pattern. Image: Trans Bodies, Trans Selves

Do trans women have the same upper body strength as men?

So the TLDR version: No, trans women do not tend to have the same upper body strength as men, because we are not men, we are women. (You can tell because in the phrase “transgender women,” the word “women” is there.) But everyone is different, generalizations do not always pan out.

Do transgender women have the same strength as cis men?

HELL NO, transgender women most assuredly do not have the same strength—upper or lower body—as cis men. One of the many drugs prescribed in the course of hormone replacement therapy (“HRT” or more colloquially called “hormones”) is spironolactone (“spiro”), a testosterone blocker.