Considers sex-hormones and surgery for children & young people experimental!!
Europe is backing up. The United States is moving forward….
From the Society of Evidenced-Based Gender Medicine.
Companion Posts
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The Science is NOT SETTLED!
The Evidence to Support Medicalised Gender Transitions in Adolescents is Worryingly Weak
The Economist sets the record straight.
The effectiveness and side-effects of the most common treatments are not well understood.
Prisha Mosely was 17 when she was first given testosterone in a clinic in North Carolina, after she had declared to her parents that she was a boy. She had struggled through her teen years with anorexia and depression after a sexual assault. Luka Hein had both breasts removed as a 16-year-old in Nebraska. Chloe Cole, in California, was a year younger when she had her double mastectomy. She had been on testosterone and puberty-blocking drugs since 13, also after a sexual assault.
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What Is Sex? – Repost
More information for our cultural debates ahead. Learn this.
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