Is there any study's on the matter of why some trans women find a hight /Hand and foot size reduction?

I've not seen any, but I can put forward a theory. There are changes to the muscular structure during HRT, as well as differences in how fat is deposited. These factors could show as a change in hand/foot size, and may cause a very small reduction in height.

The skeletal structure is fixed in most of us be the time we start HRT, and even those who do start during their teens won'y see any reduction, and as such will not reduce in size, regardless of hormone regime..

And remember if you are measuring your height, you should do it first thing in the morning for the most accurate figure.

Quote from: kelly_aus on April 02, 2011, 09:56:19 PM
I've not seen any, but I can put forward a theory. There are changes to the muscular structure during HRT, as well as differences in how fat is deposited. These factors could show as a change in hand/foot size, and may cause a very small reduction in height.

The skeletal structure is fixed in most of us be the time we start HRT, and even those who do start during their teens won'y see any reduction, and as such will not reduce in size, regardless of hormone regime..

And remember if you are measuring your height, you should do it first thing in the morning for the most accurate figure.

Agreed.

The bones will not change size or shape. However any soft tissue can be affected by HRT.  The effect of this is hands and feet can become smaller.  Also i have read that this change in soft tissue can cause the pelvis to rotate slightly thus causing a loss of height.

None of this is proven through any formal studies, but based on anecdotal evidence gleaned from my own research.

Hope this helps some.

Thak you for the replies, they do help. It was from my understading that the effet was minmal and mostly caused by, as was said, muscle/soft tissue being reduced or changing slightly. But the ammount of trans women I've talked to that have said they've lost a shoe size or two made me need to ask someone.

How about airpockets in the knuckles and feet shrinking after goig on HRT. One of my friends keps telling me that'swhay she's showing shrinkage in those areas.

Well! I may have not been accurately measured before or maybe I just didn't care but I think things have changed.

I thought I was always 5'8" maybe 5'7 1/2" but I am now definitely 5'7"

I always wore a mens 8-8 1/2 I now wear a mens 7 or womans 8-8 1/2

I haven't notice too much with hands, but mine have always been small, veiny  but small.

Shelly

Quote from: Tesseract Allen on April 02, 2011, 11:10:21 PM
How about airpockets in the knuckles and feet shrinking after goig on HRT. One of my friends keps telling me that'swhay she's showing shrinkage in those areas.

Haven't heard that one before...
I am no doctor or biologist or whatever, but i seems the cause might be a reduction in cartilage between the bones.
Anecdotal evidence shows up to about 5cm in height and 2 shoe size.  But this is very much a case of YMMV.

  There hasn't been many real studies on transwomen's health due to the small pool of those who want to be in those studies.  There was a study on prostate size of normal men, transwomen taking female hormones and anabolic steroid abusers.  The study pool was apologetically (by the people who collected the data) small due to the small transwomen wanting to be in the study and the steroid abusers wanting to fess up.  In that case the transwomen showed some shrinkage or didn't increase in size.  The normal men had the usual growth over the time of the study while the steroid abusers showed only a very tiny increase over the men who didn't take steroids.   
  There needs to be more of us to be in those studies, especially those that are just beginning to start the HRT regimen for a good baseline before proceeding with their transistion.  This may take years or decades for any proper conclusions be made here.  Studies cost money and a lot of time and the ones that are doing these usually got a grant somewhere.  TGs are in the priority of whale manure here.
Most of what I seen in the years are from the anecdotals from therapists with a MD with their few TG patients in their papers.  Adding those together still makes the study pool too small.  My anecdote is on another thread https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,95667.msg703869.html#msg703869
  Joelene