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SALIDA Less than three years into her transition from Jonathan to Jillian, pro cyclist Jillian Bearden has once again found serenity on her bike. Now, using studies and stats collected during her long career, she's helping prove that transgender athletes change more than their names; they change their biology.

Bearden has watched her performance ebb since beginning hormone-replacement therapy in 2015. As testosterone fades and estrogen grows, her fastest times on favorite climbs have slipped into what she calls "the gutter."

It was tough realizing her hard-earned power, developed over more than a decade of elite-level bike racing, was waning.

Jillian Bearden will race in the Colorado Classic, her highest-level event ever after winning the Tour of Tuscon in her big-race debut as a female racer last fall. (Hyoung Chang / The Denver Post)

"I went from 16 minutes to 26, 27, 28 minutes," she said of her times on her those climbs. "I was like holy ... Testosterone gives you this drive, this oomph, and I didn't have that push. My muscles looked fairly big, but I did not have that push to drive that extra energy. I had good days and really, really bad days. But at the end of it all, I always know that I won the biggest race of all. I am here on planet Earth with my family, and it doesn't really matter how slow I am. I've already won."

On Thursday, when Bearden saddles up with the world's best female cyclists for the Colorado Classic in her hometown of Colorado Springs, she will be the first transwoman to race with a pro peloton in the United States. Thanks to recently relaxed International Olympic Committee rules governing transgender athletes, and USA Cycling's embrace of those new rules, Bearden has become a beacon for transathletes across the globe.

Bearden is basking in a light that saved her life. In late 2014, she was driving in the dark and pushed her car to 90 mph. She turned up her favorite tune and prepared to whip the steering wheel and end it all. The darkness was all-consuming, eclipsing all the outward trimmings of success: a family, a home, a job and elite-level talent on a bike.

But just before that fateful yank, Bearden said she felt "an angelic light" penetrate her overwhelming misery. Maybe it was from her mom. Or her brother, who had taken his life almost a decade earlier.

"Whatever it was, that presence brought me out, and the message to me was, 'Tell your mom. Just tell your mom,'" Jillian said.

Jillian told her mom. Then she told her spouse. And her kids. And now she's telling the world that, since her birth, despite the misplaced hardware and the name Jonathan, she is a woman. It's not just that she always wanted to be a woman. She is a woman.

"I would have killed myself that night, and no one would have ever known why. I always knew who I was, but I was in such turmoil," the 36-year-old said, sipping coffee before a high-speed criterium race on rain-soaked streets in Salida.

While she was ready to sacrifice her competitive life in the saddle to claim her gender, she wasn't going to let go of bike racing without a fight. Cycling is her therapy, she said.

"Riding my bike has saved my life many times over," said Bearden, who works as an electrical engineer.

After her brother killed himself in 2005, she pedaled. As she grappled with her gender dysphoria, she pedaled. When suicidal thoughts consumed her, she pedaled. After several thousand hours of training and racing, she was really good. By the time she came so close to ending her life, she had reached the highest levels of amateur cycling on both her mountain and road bikes. Racing was part of her identity. Staying competitive on the bike was vital as she transitioned.

Her growth to Jillian has included more than counseling: hormone therapy to block testosterone and add estrogen, laser hair removal and a public pivot to female. She's also worked with the IOC and USA Cycling to implement new rules for transgender athletes.

The IOC's 2003 rules governing transgender athletes required them to have gender-reassignment surgery to compete in Olympic sports.

"To require surgical anatomical changes as a precondition to participation is not necessary to preserve fair competition and may be inconsistent with developing legislation and notions of human rights," reads the IOC's November 2015 draft guidelines for transgender policies.

The new rules simply require transwomen to keep testosterone below a certain level for a year before competing and must present a doctor's note showing their testosterone levels are below the IOC threshold. The IOC recommendations include no restrictions for athletes transitioning to male.

USA Cycling was one of the first national governing bodies to embrace the new policy, thanks in part to Bearden's help. She had the science to support the new rules.

As an elite male racer, she had regular benchmarks measuring her power and lactate threshold. After more than two years of blocking testosterone and boosting estrogen, her wattage output has dropped by 11.4 percent. That mirrors the performance gap between top-tier male and female athletes.

Bearden says those results have fostered a welcoming environment among her fellow racers. And with her decrease in power documented, she's able to dismiss the argument that she's carrying her years of training and racing as a man into women's racing.

"I'm shocked and I'm blessed and so happy they have embraced me and bought me in and treated me like who I am: a woman," she said. "I think a lot of people have read about my work with the IOC and USAC, and they see my test results from before and after and they see me as legit. I mean, I'm here. I'm a woman. Let's race."

Michelle Henry, a Palmares Racing teammate, has been training with Bearden for several weeks to prepare for the Colorado Classic.

"There are a lot of us who really support her," she said. "As much as her mission is to help others who might be struggling through that really low spot she was in, for many of us, we want to help those people understand there is a lot of acceptance out there and we support them."

Bearden credits the support of her team and family with her mental fight to regain her competitive edge. As her power waned, her push became much more internal.

"The testosterone is gone, so you have to find a new way to get to the new you, and the new me was working on my mental game," she said. "Now it's all mental."

Bearden's steep decline in performance aligns with the first study of transgender athletes, published in 2015 in the Journal of Sporting Cultures and Identities by medical physicist Joanna Harper, who is advising the IOC on its transgender policies. Harper's study showed transwomen runners slowed and lost strength as they blocked testosterone and added estrogen.

Chuck Hodge, the technical director for USA Cycling, consulted with Bearden as American cycling's governing body crafted a policy that welcomed all athletes. With the IOC revising its recommendations for transwomen athletes, USA Cycling didn't need to go through a philosophical or political review, he said, so much as embrace "an update that really modernized our view.

"We basically said this is our policy and this is what's fair and this is what we are doing," he said.

Hodge worked with Bearden through tweaks, like making sure her former name didn't pop up with her times on a race's online results page. "That sounds small, but I can't imagine going through all these changes and then our automated system throws up their old name. Jillian has been very helpful and understanding through the process."

Hodge said he's been "somewhat shocked at the number of calls and emails" from athletes who are following Bearden's lead.

"This wasn't a hard decision," he said. "It's really just treating people fairly and equitably and with respect."

USA Cycling is at the forefront of Olympic-sport governing bodies that are crafting policies for transgender athletes. Athletes like Bearden, with her before-and-after power data, support more science-based decisions, said Ashland Johnson, the director of education and research at the Human Rights Campaign who recently conducted a training for U.S. Olympic Committee coaches and administrators to help embrace athletes of every stripe.

"We are seeing more of a move among governing bodies, where instead of making policies that are dependent on old stereotypes based on gender, decisions are based in science, inclusion and fairness," she said.

Things are moving in the right direction at the international and national level, but more needs to be done at the state level to make sure the Olympic pipeline of younger athletes can include transgender competitors, Johnson said.

"That K-12 arena is where everyone should be able to participate," Johnson said. "We want to increase inclusion at every level of sport, but especially K through 12."

Even with the welcome from her fellow competitors and her rising profile as a transathlete role model, Bearden is quick to admit that not one step of her journey has been easy. But it's better than it ever was.

Last fall, with her wife, Sarah, and their almost 3-year-old daughter cheering her on, she won Arizona's El Tour de Tucson, one of the largest road bike races in the country. The Trans National Women's Cycling Team she co-founded last year has 22 members from 15 states and Mexico. So far this season, she's competed in almost 20 races in Colorado and the West. In late July, she placed fifth in the Salida Classic criterium. The next day, she took third in the event's road race.

The Colorado Classic will be her highest-profile competition.

She's a podium contender, and she's ready for the hate that might bring. She got it aplenty after she won the Tucson race. Her Facebook and Strava pages were quickly stained with anonymous commenters seemingly irked by her talent. Recently, she's had to report online death threats to the police. Transwomen are disproportionately targeted for violence, and transgender people have a high suicide rate, with an estimated 41 percent of transgender adults saying they have attempted to kill themselves.

But for every bucketload of hostility, Bearden says she connects with one person who is inspired by her story. That makes it all worth it, she said. Since she began racing last year, she's developed friendships with more than 50 transgender cyclists across the world eager to follow her lead.

As more step forward to claim their gender, she said, momentum is building.

"I want to use the strength I was given through my transition and send ripples to people everywhere. At the end of the day, it could help save a life for someone in a dark place," she said. "I'm hoping that me being out in the public eye can give people the courage and safety to come out and do what they love and be who they are."

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The medical community agrees that testosterone begins to decline gradually in most men by the time they reach the age of 30. If left unchecked, testosterone levels will continue to decline as you age, meaning that the average 50-year-old will have far less testosterone than the average 35-year-old, even though individuals are in a state of testosterone decline.

The effects of diminishing testosterone should be hardly noticeable for most men in their 30s. Once you hit 50, however, the effects may truly start to set in. Your sex drive may be reduced, you may have difficulty getting or maintaining an erection, your overall mood and energy may drop, and you may feel symptoms of irritability and even depression. Fortunately, the availability of testosterone replacement therapies for men over 50 means that you can break this cycle and regain at least some of the vitality you possessed as a young man.

VCLV Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT)offers physician prescribed and medically supervised Testosterone Therapy programs helping patients enter a cost effective and comprehensive Low Testosterone Treatment program designed to treat adult men over the age of 35 suffering from symptoms and problems associated with Low-T,hypogonadism and andropause also known as "male menopause".

Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT) with injectable testosterone, testosterone cream or gel can help men with low testosterone levels. Testosterone treatment is carefully formulated to help alleviate symptoms due to male menopause - Low T.

Treat low testosterone symptoms: loss of energy; low sex drive; erectile dysfunction; loss of muscle tone; irritability; depression; insomnia, feeling tired all the time bordering on fatigue; loss of focus and drive.

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Trystan Reese, a transgender man, gave birth to a healthy boy on July 14 in Portland, Ore. (Amber Ferguson/The Washington Post)

Trystan Reese and his partner, Biff Chaplow, were already seasoned parents when they decided last year that they wanted another child.

Years earlier, they had adopted Chaplows niece and nephew after his sister was no longer able to take care of them. They raised the two children as their own, bringing them up in Los Angeles, where Reese and Chaplow worked in nonprofits, then moving the family to Portland, Ore., where they live now.

Adoption was a taxing process, Reese said, and learning how to care for two toddlers ushered ina suite of new challenges and lifestyle changes, as it does for any parent. Butit was also eye-opening.

After the dust settled, I just realized how much I loved our kids, Reese told The Washington Post, and how much room there was in our life for our family to grow.

After trying for several months, Reese, a transgender man,got pregnant. And just weeks ago, he gave birth to a healthy baby boy.

Reeseand Chaplow documented the pregnancy in blog posts and on social media, hoping to demystify what it means for atransgender man to give birth and to create a new sense of normalcy for people in similar situations.

Their familys story and their willingness to go public with itreflects a shift in public attitudes about pregnancy and parenting in transgender men as social stigmas have started to chipaway and advocacy groupshavecampaigned for greater acceptance.

Reese and Chaplow, perhaps more than anything else, want to make one thing clear: They are not the first. Far from it.

People get the idea that this was some experiment that we embarked on, Reese said, adding that he watched friends go through the same process after transitioning. This is tested ground. This is something that has been done in a very safe and healthy way. Were loath to be put in that pioneer category.

A number of transgender men havegone through successful pregnancies in recent years and throughout history, for that matter some of them long afterbeginninghormone replacement therapy. In one well-known example, the Village Voice published a narrative about Matt Rice, a transgender manwho conceived in 1999 through artificial insemination and gave birth to a baby boy. Other more recent pregnancies among transgender men have been well documented in media reports.

Reese, 34, was assigned female sex at birth and lived as a woman untilhis late teens.After counseling, he began taking hormones around age 20and started identifying as a man.He met Chaplow nearly eight years ago and said it was love at first sight. They took custody of Chaplows sisters children in 2011.

When they decided tohave a biological child, they sought out medical advice. Doctors told them that because Reese had only undergone hormone therapyin his transition, preparingto conceivewouldnt be very different than fora woman who had been on hormonal birth control.

Reese said he became pregnant about five months after he stopped taking testosterone.

When I found out, it was equal parts elation and fear, he said. I was soexcited to be on this journey with the person that I love, and then also really scared.Could I do this? Pregnancy is hard, labor is hard, and I hoped that Id be able to handle it all.

When Reese was six months along, he addressed peoples curiosities and misconceptions about his pregnancy in a videohe shared on social media. Sitting on his couch with a melon-sized bump under his shirt, he explained how the testosterone he took caused him to grow facial hair and made his voice drop but left him with a functioninguterus and ovaries.

Ive never wished or wanted to be assigned male at birth or to have my body match up exactly with that of my partner, who was assigned male at birth, Reese said. Im okay being trans. I think its kind of awesome, actually, and Ive never wanted my body to be different.

If you can understand that then it starts to make more sense that it would not seem totally bizarre for me to want to create and carry a baby, because I dont wish that my body was not a trans body, he said. Im okay being a man who has a uterus and who has the capacity and capability of carrying a baby.

Reeses pregnancy had all the ups and downs of any pregnancy, complete with swollen feet, fatigue, mood swings and all the anticipation and excitement that comes with bringing a child into the world, he said.

On July 14, after 30 hours of labor, Reese gave birth to Leo, a 9.5-pound baby who he says is in great health.

Reese told The Post henever imagined his life would take such a turn whenhe began his gender transition some 14 years ago.

I didnt think I would ever find someone I would fall in love with and would be with me. Being able to adopt two brilliant, funny, sweet kids was something that I never dreamed of. The fact that any of this happened has been a total surprise to me, because thats not the trans story were told, that love is possible, that being a loving family is possible.

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Testosterone Replacement Therapy these words have become more common with every passing year but many still have no clue as to what testosterone replacement therapy really is. Youve seen the commercials for Low-T and if you ask most men they sound great but many still have no clue Low-T is nothing more than testosterone replacement therapy and this therapy unknown to even more is nothing more than a legal prescription for anabolic steroids. Thats right, anabolic steroids; testosterone replacement therapy refers to a treatment in-which low levels of the naturally occurring hormone testosterone are brought back into an adequate range. To perform this function the anabolic steroid testosterone, a synthetic version of the hormone our body produces must be administered.

If you possess any understanding of the performance enhancing world, on its surface the idea of testosterone replacement therapy may bring you a sigh of relief but more than likely it probably irritates you at the same time. After all, for years weve been told anabolic steroids are brewed in the bowels of hell but if you receive testosterone replacement therapy this same hormone from which all anabolic steroids are derived from, now its a welcomed beacon of hope. Yes, you are correct; episodes of the Twilight Zone make far more sense than this confusing conundrum.

Lets from this point on be clear and precise; these advertisements for Low-T treatment and things of this nature are nothing more than advertisements and promotions for anabolic steroids. When you inquire about testosterone replacement therapy understand youre inquiring regarding anabolic steroids; lets call a spade a spade. We are still a long way off from anabolic steroids being generally accepted by the whole of society but it is within testosterone replacement therapy this acceptance holds its most promising form. ,/p>

If you are still unfamiliar with testosterone replacement therapy the idea is very simple. Testosterone replacement therapy is simply providing the body the testosterone it needs in-which it no longer produces naturally. Further, this same therapy is many times provided to increase testosterone levels in men who may not have a decline per say but who naturally do not make enough testosterone. This is where things find themselves a little murky; there isnt a set level of testosterone production that is considered Natural, for the amounts produced vary from person to person. Even so, the idea is sound and very well received by most all men who receive it.

There are those who desire to see testosterone replacement therapy thrown into the trash pile of life; why? We dont have a good specific answer for you because they have yet to give one themselves. Men who receive testosterone replacement therapy enjoy a higher quality of life, they feel better, and they become sick far less often and are generally happier individuals. Why on earth anyone would ever want to legislate testosterone replacement therapy into the ground is beyond reason and comprehension.

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Caster Semenya of South Africa celebrates after winning the womens 800m final at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Photograph: Diego Azubel/EPA

Caster Semenya, the Olympic 800m champion, may be banned from competing at future Games unless she undergoes hormone replacement therapy (HRT) or even surgery in the wake of a landmark study into athletes with raised testosterone levels which has just been published.

The International Association of Athletics Federations, the world governing body, commissioned research which has produced the most conclusive evidence yet that female athletes with very high levels of naturally occurring testosterone receive significant performance-enhancing benefits in competition.

It comes only weeks before the IAAF is set to challenge a ruling by the court of arbitration for sport which, since 2015, has prevented it from restricting permitted levels of testosterone among female competitors.

The new study will not stop Semenya and other hyperandrogenic athletes, such as the Indian sprinter Dutee Chand, from competing at the world championships in London in August but it could have a significant impact on the Cas hearing later this month.

It is bound to reopen the controversial and emotionally charged debate around the treatment of female athletes with hyperandrogenism, a medical condition characterised by excessive levels of male sex hormones such as testosterone.

Researchers measured blood testosterone levels in 1,332 female athletes competing across 21 track and field disciplines at the 2011 and 2013 world championships. Those with the highest levels of testosterone demonstrated significant advantages over those with the lowest levels notably in the 400m (2.7% faster), the 400m hurdles (2.8% faster), the 800m (1.8% faster), the hammer throw (4.5% longer) and in the pole vault (2.9% higher).

Although these margins appear small, at the highest level a performance boost of a few percentage points might mean the difference between winning gold and missing out on a medal.

Stphane Bermon led the research from the Monaco Institute of Sports Medicine and Surgery, together with Dr Pierre-Yves Garnier, director of the IAAF health and science department. Bermon said: This study brings new evidence [of] the performance-enhancing effects of androgens in elite female athletes. Although long suspected [to be the case], until now there was no proof.

Our starting position is to defend, protect and promote fair female competition.If, as the study shows, in certain events female athletes with higher testosterone levels can have a competitive advantage of between 1.8 and 4.5% over female athletes with lower testosterone levels, imagine the magnitude of the advantage for female athletes with testosterone levels in the normal male range.

Among female athletes testosterone is the most widely abused performance-enhancing drug, Bermon said. Of the 116 female athletes serving a doping ban as of December 2016, 64 had tested positive for androgens.

Chand, a 100m and 200m sprinter, successfully challenged IAAF regulations restricting permitted testosterone levels in 2015. These regulations mandated that affected individuals had to receive hormone treatment to lower their testosterone levels artificially if they wanted to compete in the female category of competition. Cas ruled the IAAF regulations must be suspended until evidence of the impact of circulating androgens, like testosterone, on sporting performance could be produced.

This missing evidence prompted the current study, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

Testosterone has several potential performance-enhancing effects on the body, including boosting the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood, building lean muscle mass and increasing mental drive and aggressiveness. The new study also found that female competitors with high levels of androgens benefit from improved visuospatial abilities.

Bermon believes the studys findings have significant implications for future rulings on testosterone in elite womens sport. We believe that these results could help the CAS jury to better understand the relationship between androgen levels and athletic performance. Additionally, our work addresses the main CAS request: quantification of the advantage experienced by female athletes with very high level of circulating androgens when compared to athletes with normal level of androgens.

The IAAF has commissioned a second piece of research and sources told the Guardian it would look at the effect naturally occurring testosterone has on 100m and 200m sprinters like Chand, as well as middle distance runners and throwers.

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Testosterone LevelsAlthough it is normal for testosterone levels to drop as men age, low testosterone can affect a mans health. In many ways, testosterone is the stuff that makes men men. The rush of new testosterone in puberty builds muscle and bone, deepens the voice, and revs up the sex drive. Throughout a mans life, testosterone maintains his male characteristics.

Testosterone levels decline steadily after age 30. The decline is relatively small, at an average rate of about 1% to 2% percent per year. By middle age and older, all men experience decline in testosterone, but only a small percentage of men do something about it!!!

Low testosterone can be replaced by using a daily skin gel, patches worn on the skin, orally disintegrating tablets, or injections. The general recommendations are to raise the blood testosterone level only into the normal range.

Contact us in Virginia, to learn more about testosterone replacement therapy.

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The androgen group of hormones includes any substance that assists in the development and manages the appearance of male characteristics. The principal hormone in this group is testosterone, an anabolic steroid. Anabolic steroids promote the retention of protein in the body, contribute to muscle mass, bone strength, bone density and more. Testosterone, which stimulates male puberty, is derived from cholesterol and produced in the testes.

Testosteroneserves several purposes in the male body including the growth and development of sexual characteristics. Thetestosterone hormonealso deepens the voice during puberty, stimulates the growth of facial and body hair, increases sexual drive, and is responsible for sperm production. Furthermore, testosterone contributes to liver function, muscle mass and strength, the ability to produce erections and sexual stamina. While women also possess testosterone, it is in much smaller levels. Testosterone is the main male hormone that differentiates men from women.

To put it simply,andropause(male menopause) is caused by low testosterone. As men age, their testosterone production decreases by about 2% a year causing a shortage of this very necessary hormone. The testosterone shortage paired with increasing levels of the Sex Binding Hormone Globulin (SHBG) which inhibits a substantial portion of remaining testosterone from working, causes the andropause symptoms (i.e.erectile problems, hair loss, weight gain,low sexual drive) because there is not enough testosterone to perform all of the functions that the body relies on it for. Hair loss in particular is caused by a hormone created from testosterone, dihydrotestosterone or DHT, which when bound to a particular receptor in male hair follicles, causes thinning hair or hair loss.

As mentioned, andropause is the result of diminished testosterone levels in the male body. It is responsible for thosesymptoms of andropauseand can actually cause:

Testosterone therapy or testosterone replacement can return the male body to producing normal testosterone levels.

While uncommon, there are cases of men possessing an excess of testosterone, this is most clearly seen in steroid use among athletes. Symptoms of high testosterone include but are not limited to:

State-of-the-art testing by BodyLogicMD can inform you if you possess too much testosterone, at which point, yourbioidentical hormone doctorwill prescribe a treatment plan to rectify your testosterone levels.

The BodyLogicMD process starts with simple yet thorough testing to identify not only the levels of testosterone in your body, but also a series of other hormones that may be causing similar symptoms and problems. If you are low on testosterone, your BodyLogicMD affiliated physician will prescribecustomized testosterone hormone therapyfor bioidentical testosterone replacement. Common treatments include testosterone creams or under the skin pellets. Furthermore, an individualized nutrition, supplement and fitness program will be suggested to help you maintain your new hormone balance. Getting older is inevitable, aging is not. Hair loss, low sex drive, erectile problems and a loss of muscle mass may be avoidable with the help ofbioidentical hormone replacement therapywith BodyLogicMD.

For the most part, testosterone replacement therapy is safe when used properly. However, like any medication or therapy, there are some side effects from testosterone replacement therapy that may occur. Side effects of testosterone therapy include:

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