Transgender women taking gender-affirming hormones like estrogen are up to 95% more likely to suffer from heart disease compared to cisgender men, researchers have found.

A study published in the European Journal of Endocrinology showed that all trans people were at a “significantly higher risk” of a host of serious and potentially deadly medical conditions, including heart attacks and strokes.

The authors used health data from 2,671 trans people in their early to mid-20s living in Denmark.

They then compared the rate of heart disease seen in the trans patients to a control group of 26,700 people.

[Quelle surprise. Who could have guessed that chemically generating secondary sexual characteristics for the opposite sex might have deleterious effects on health? Um … practically anyone with a lick of common sense. Note too that this data comes from the Danish longitudinal studies that use some of the most robust data available, thanks to their intrusive data-tracking regime. — Ed]