Testosterone's effect on height

[Guest Elandili_Aier]

So I had been told by a couple people who were also transitioning that testosterone made them grow a couple inches taller. I had never heard this before, and personally would love to not stay at 5'2". Of course, I thought they may have just grown taller as they would've without testosterone. Can anyone give a bit of input? Is there any effect to your height due to it?

[Guest UnicornGiggles]

If you have it pre-puberty or during, you may grow slightly taller than your original genetics decided, but not by much. After puberty, your height is pretty much decided - your bones won't grow any more.

I think what people are experiencing is throwing off the 'transman hunch' where you instinctively slouch to hide your chest. Once people bind well / get surgery it often fixes itself and they stand upright - and are their real height. If I stand up against a wall I'm about your height, but I've been told by many people that I "can't be that tall!" but that's because I look smaller because I slouch.

[Guest Svenna]

Testosterone tends to cause bone plates to line up end-to-end, versus estrogen which tends to align bone ends in an offset manner...

I'm going the other direction, but I have lost a considerable amount of height in just a few months of E...

YMMV...

Svenna

[Guest John Chiv]

What Unicorn said is pretty accurate because it depends on when you take T. Since I am transitioned at a later age, height is not one of the benefits but it has not been an issue.

John

[Guest Raging Shadow]

I grew about 1/4-1/2 of an inch over a year and a half. but I'm also fifteen so that might've happened anyways...

[Guest Elandili_Aier]

I see. Well, guess I'll just have to be patient and see then. Thanks for the answers :3

[Guest RainbowGoth98]

Nope, hieght is genetic im afraid.

[JJ]

The truth is that very little research has been done on the effects of T because till very recently FTMs were thought to be very rare for a variety of reasons and tended to go stealth.

From what I have been able to discover it is believed that T may increase height if taken during puberty because you in effect go through more of a male puberty and males have a longer growing period on average than females which leads to increased height. All subject to the genetics mentioned above. I don't know of any studies that have verified or disputed this assumption.

Medicine is really in its infancy in dealing with transsexual effects. We are not a big enough market-and it was once thought particularly true of FTMs-for any drug company to market to us and frankly that is where the main research funds come from. The other source-government funding-would not be driven to research us either since we are -or were-not politically important enough to even have our basic rights protected much less spend public funds doing research on us.

Unpleasant but realities. The good news is that more and more awareness has resulted in additional research and in the case of FTMs the new findings on the beneficial effects of T on Fibromyalgia and on aging will have medical relevance to us.

Johnny

[Guest tristankrauter]

If T makes me grow like an Inch Taller I'd be extremely happy, but I dont think it works like that lol.

[Guest Lonewolf13]

If T makes me grow like an Inch Taller I'd be extremely happy, but I dont think it works like that lol.

yeh i was thinking pretty much the same thing lol but wouldnt want to get my hopes up.

[Guest UnicornGiggles]

If you think about it logically, it can't possibly make you grow that much taller. Even the official surgery for increasing height, where they break your legs and heal them over time via scaffolding so that new bone grows and lengthens your legs, only gives you an extra few inches.