California Man: Hormone Therapy ‘Almost Killed Me’

David Bacon was told by his doctors in 2017 that he had two weeks to live if he didn’t quit taking the cross-sex hormones he started taking in 2014.
California Man: Hormone Therapy ‘Almost Killed Me’
(Left) David Bacon, who went by Lisa while taking estrogen, at 25 years old. (Right) A recent photo of Bacon. Courtesy of David Bacon
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A man born with a heart defect says taking estrogen and testosterone-blocker pills in a desire to become female almost cost him his life.

David Bacon of Monterey County, California, was told by his doctors in 2017 that he had two weeks to live if he didn’t quit taking the cross-sex hormones he started taking in 2014.

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