# Journal editorial: Walking the tightrope: balancing safety and risk in gender-affirming hormone therapy Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/esc-cardio-talk-1015094/journal-editorial-walking-the-tightrope-balancing-safety-and-risk-in-gender-affirming-hormone-therapy Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/esc-cardio-talk-1015094/journal-editorial-walking-the-tightrope-balancing-safety-and-risk-in-gender-affirming-hormone-therapy.md Podcast: [ESC Cardio Talk](https://stenobird.com/podcast/esc-cardio-talk-1015094) Published: 2026-03-30T06:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://escardio.libsyn.com/journal-editorial-walking-the-tightrope-balancing-safety-and-risk-in-gender-affirming-hormone-therapy Audio file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/escardio/Kharlamlov_Podcast_FINAL.mp3?dest-id=1060319 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/esc-cardio-talk-1015094/episodes/journal-editorial-walking-the-tightrope-balancing-safety-and-risk-in-gender-affirming-hormone-therapy Duration seconds: 658 ## Resource With Alexander Kharlamov, De Haar Research Force, Amsterdam - Netherlands and Marc Ferrini, Saint-Joseph and Saint-Luke Hospital Centre, Lyon - France. Link to paper Link to editorial ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/esc-cardio-talk-1015094/episodes/journal-editorial-walking-the-tightrope-balancing-safety-and-risk-in-gender-affirming-hormone-therapy/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/esc-cardio-talk-1015094/journal-editorial-walking-the-tightrope-balancing-safety-and-risk-in-gender-affirming-hormone-therapy.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.