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Title: What If Your Child Says, I'm In The Wrong Body?
Post by: Shana A on December 27, 2011, 06:19:04 AM
Post by: Shana A on December 27, 2011, 06:19:04 AM
What If Your Child Says, I'm In The Wrong Body?
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December 26, 2011
http://www.npr.org/2011/12/26/144156917/transgender-kids?mid=563 (http://www.npr.org/2011/12/26/144156917/transgender-kids?mid=563)
Dr. Norman Spack at Boston's Children's Hospital has worked with 30 transgender youth and their families to get through the difficult phases of adolescence. One treatment includes a controversial medication that blocks puberty until he or she decides whether or not to transition to the other gender. Dr. Spack talks with guest host Allison Keyes.
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DR. NORMAN SPACK: Correct. You know, I came to do what I do partly from the top down. My first patients were post-college, my next patients were adults. It was a wasteland. Many of the male-to-females particularly had a very great difficulty in physically being accepted as a woman because of all of the male characteristics in size and hands and angular jaw and the things that we identify...
Tell Me More
December 26, 2011
http://www.npr.org/2011/12/26/144156917/transgender-kids?mid=563 (http://www.npr.org/2011/12/26/144156917/transgender-kids?mid=563)
Dr. Norman Spack at Boston's Children's Hospital has worked with 30 transgender youth and their families to get through the difficult phases of adolescence. One treatment includes a controversial medication that blocks puberty until he or she decides whether or not to transition to the other gender. Dr. Spack talks with guest host Allison Keyes.
[...]
DR. NORMAN SPACK: Correct. You know, I came to do what I do partly from the top down. My first patients were post-college, my next patients were adults. It was a wasteland. Many of the male-to-females particularly had a very great difficulty in physically being accepted as a woman because of all of the male characteristics in size and hands and angular jaw and the things that we identify...
Title: Re: What If Your Child Says, I'm In The Wrong Body?
Post by: spacial on December 27, 2011, 08:30:58 AM
Post by: spacial on December 27, 2011, 08:30:58 AM
Good article.
Thank you.
Thank you.