Transplanting Transgender Patients

My younger brother (32 years old) is undergoing a sex change operation. He’s on the hormones and going to the doctors, and i’m not really sure what is involved but the family supports him. My question is relating to the genetic hair loss that runs deep in our family in almost all of the males (our dad, my cousin, me, my brother). He started to lose his hairline before he began his transition and i think it is quite rare for a woman to lose the hairline, right? Right now he wears a wig, and he’s going to have enough challenges with closed minded people that i don’t want him to have to deal with something like hair that he can probably take care of with a hair transplant. What do you recomend? Thank you for your time.

When men become women, they bring with them whatever male patterned hair loss they had. As such, looking like a female is not possible without either a wig or a transplant. The reverse is also the case if a woman becomes a man. Exposure to high doses of testosterone will precipitate a male pattened loss if the person has the genetics for genetic balding. In this situation, their balding genetics were protected when they did not have testosterone and were a woman, but that protection is lost when the sex is switched. Transgender patients may be candidates for hair transplants if their balding can be diagnosed as genetic hair loss.