Young transsexuals should be allowed to put puberty on hold

[Natasha]

Young transsexuals should be allowed to put puberty on hold

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/28/sexeducation.gayrights
8/28/2008

Your article ('My body is wrong', G2, August 14) sensitively reports the anguish of the young teenage transsexual as the body changes in the direction of the wrong sex. That anguish is medically treated in other countries. But in the UK the "wrong puberty" is allowed to progress for years before treatment. Not only are these unwanted body changes traumatic as they develop, but if the teenager goes on to live as an adult of the other sex, they pose additional hardship. Aptly, the article tells of a mother whose (now) daughter was denied hormone treatment "until the age of 16, by which point she already had an Adam's apple, a deep voice and facial hair".

[mr_marc]

My gender doc mentioned this too me, she's trying to get me put on blockers -dances-