Transgender Hair Transplant

At Harley Street Hair Transplant Clinics, we help your transition via hairline surgery designed to match your transitioning-to gender type. Whether it’s male to female (mtf) or female to male (ftm), our procedures are designed to help reshape and redesign your hairline to offer a more masculine or feminine look as we understand that hair restorations plays a vital part in gender-affirming care.

Put simply, hair transplant surgery is designed to reshape your hairline and offer hair growth to balding areas. Hair transplants are the best way for patients to gain a head of hair with a fuller and natural appearance.

Transgender hair transplants are designed with your gender reassignment surgery in mind. Whether you’re transitioning from male to female or female to male, we’re to offer the gender specific appearance you desire.

Hair transplant surgery can cost anywhere between £3,000 and £7,000. This disparity in cost, however, is very much dependent upon a case by case basis. Different patients have different wishes, needs, and severity of balding.

Included in the cost is a free consultation session in which you will speak to a GMC qualified hair transplant surgeon. From here, your transplant method, location, and date, will be decided.

At Harley Street Hair Transplant Clinics, we believe that anyone should be able to get a hair transplant, if they desire. This is why we’ve partnered with a finance company and can now offer a helpful payment plan for those who would rather pay over the course of 12 months interest free! No one should be denied the opportunity for a hair transplant!

For a full list of prices, head over to our hair transplant pricing page!

Hair transplants are pain free post local anaesthetic administration in both the donor and recipient areas on the day of surgery. Our patients report varying levels of pain/discomfort for this initial anaesthetic administration ranging from a scratch like feeling to a elastic band flick.

Post surgery day, the pain can last between 1-3 days however most of our patients report that paracetamol takes care of this pain. For some patients that paracetamol doesn’t fully kill the pain, we recommend to our patients to get over the counter co-codamol for something a bit stronger. For more details on how painful are hair transplants, you can view our page here.

There are two key reasons why you may be interesting in getting a hair transplant: first, to reshape the hairline in a fashion more suitable to a person’s gender, and second, to halt signs of previous hair loss and pattern balding.

One of the biggest concerns facing the transgender community is gender dysphoria; the feeling that a person’s biological sex does not match gender identity. Hair transplant procedures can, potentially, reduce these feelings in patients.

For many MTF patients, hair restoration surgery can be used to combat signs of balding that may have manifested pre-transition. One of the key hair procedures we can do is hairline lowering. This is where hair follicles are supplied into areas where hair has previously receded pre-transition.

The aim of this is to offer a more feminine appearance, in which hair new hair grows further down the head. This offers a permanent solution for those who have already experienced balding.

At Harley Street Hair Transplant Clinics, we also offer hair loss medication such as finasteride and minoxidil, which is designed to reduce androgen (DHT) level to slow down hair loss as well as encourage hair growth via a vasodilator like minoxidil. If you are looking for natural looking hair, this may also be something to consider.

For those undergoing FTM transition, we offer a number of solutions that tackle male pattern hair loss and the desire to achieve a more masculine look.

During the transition process, hormone therapy given to patients can cause symptoms of male pattern baldness. As increased testosterone is directly linked with male pattern hair loss, it is not surprising that FTM patients, post-transition, may experience signs of balding. This is caused by DHT (Dihydrotestosterone), which attaches itself to a hair follicles and causes hair to unalterably shed.

To combat this, transgender patients can be given a number of hair transplant options to combat this. Whether it’s FUE, FUT, or DHI, a hair transplant offers a truly long term solution. Why not have a look at our procedure pages?

Another procedure offered is a beard transplant. Thanks to technological advancements with FUE, in which hairs can be individually extracted, beard transplants can also be offered. If you’re looking for a desirable beard, then a beard transplant may be for you! To learn about the process, please consult our beard transplant page.

For trans women, the goal is to reduce androgenic hair loss and possibly regrow thinning hair. Common medications include:

• Finasteride – It blocks DHT (the main hormone responsible for male pattern baldness). It works well alongside oestrogen to prevent any further hair miniaturisation.
• Dutasteride – Stronger DHT blocker than finasteride. It blocks both type I and II 5-alpha-reductase enzymes.
• Topical Minoxidil – Increases blood flow encouraging follicle growth – Works regardless of hormone status – Best for vertex and crown thinning.
• Spironolactone – An anti-androgen that blocks testosterone at the receptor level. Commonly prescribed to MTF patients as part of HRT. May also help reduce hair shedding – Not used as a primary hair regrowth agent but supports overall hormone balance.