Making the transition
Doctors and counsellors are seeing a growing number of youth with gender identity issues. Addressing the confusion is a difficult process, requiring much more than hormones and surgery
By Donna Nebenzahl, Postmedia News July 2, 2011 2:05 AM
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Making+transition/5039947/story.html (http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Making+transition/5039947/story.html)
At age five, Shamai was a boy in a little girl's body. He remembers demanding a short haircut and when a lady on the street "mistook" him for a boy, turning to his mother and saying: "This lady knows better than you. She knows I'm a boy."
In her first recollection that something was wrong, Samantha had this vague sense it didn't feel right to be in a boy's body. "I didn't know what it was. I prayed for a while for things to work out." She was four years old.