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Title: Born in the wrong body
Post by: SandraJane on October 27, 2012, 05:29:48 AM
Post by: SandraJane on October 27, 2012, 05:29:48 AM
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Born in the wrong body
A Providence doctor is on the leading edge of a new approach to transgender kids
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | October 26, 2012
http://providence.thephoenix.com/news/146479-born-in-the-wrong-body/ (http://providence.thephoenix.com/news/146479-born-in-the-wrong-body/)
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THE DOC "I make no assumptions about who you are," Forcier says.
Dr. Michelle Forcier can't remember his name. But she remembers his face: a boy, 14, trapped in a girl's body. He was anguished. Hated what he was becoming.
"This kid," says Dr. Forcier, "just wanted to be himself."
She could suppress his period — that regular, bloody betrayal of his core identity; a birth control shot would do the trick. But she had little else to offer.
The physician felt she had failed her patient.
Dr. Forcier was running a clinic in Raleigh, North Carolina at the time. It was 1998. Before medicine really knew what to do with these kids. Before the Internet connected doctors to emerging protocols — and frightened teenagers to one another.
Fourteen years later, everything has changed.
Born in the wrong body
A Providence doctor is on the leading edge of a new approach to transgender kids
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | October 26, 2012
http://providence.thephoenix.com/news/146479-born-in-the-wrong-body/ (http://providence.thephoenix.com/news/146479-born-in-the-wrong-body/)
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THE DOC "I make no assumptions about who you are," Forcier says.
Dr. Michelle Forcier can't remember his name. But she remembers his face: a boy, 14, trapped in a girl's body. He was anguished. Hated what he was becoming.
"This kid," says Dr. Forcier, "just wanted to be himself."
She could suppress his period — that regular, bloody betrayal of his core identity; a birth control shot would do the trick. But she had little else to offer.
The physician felt she had failed her patient.
Dr. Forcier was running a clinic in Raleigh, North Carolina at the time. It was 1998. Before medicine really knew what to do with these kids. Before the Internet connected doctors to emerging protocols — and frightened teenagers to one another.
Fourteen years later, everything has changed.
Title: Re: Born in the wrong body
Post by: spacial on October 27, 2012, 12:44:31 PM
Post by: spacial on October 27, 2012, 12:44:31 PM
Another step forward.
Title: Re: Born in the wrong body
Post by: DriftingCrow on November 11, 2012, 10:59:40 AM
Post by: DriftingCrow on November 11, 2012, 10:59:40 AM
Ah, I was just about to post that same article. :)