http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/opinion/invitation-to-a-dialogue-gender-identity.html?src=recg (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/opinion/invitation-to-a-dialogue-gender-identity.html?src=recg)
Author: Jack Drescher Source: The New York Times
"Gender identity is one's sense of being a boy or girl, man or woman. Theories abound, but no one knows how it develops in transgender or non-transgender people. Some children strongly disagree with their gender assignment as young as age 2. Clinicians call this gender dysphoria. . . . . Currently experts can't tell apart kids who outgrow gender dysphoria (desisters) from those who don't (persisters), and how to treat them is controversial."
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I thought this letter was quite interesting, because it did address a few things that I've been pondering for some time. I've read comments here on Susan's where people fully support very young children being treated by hormones and/or hormone blockers for gender dysphoria; while being trans myself I still have some doubts or concerns on what age its appropriate to start medical treatments or even social transition, or on what approach is best (I think I like the "wait and see" as the author describes the most). What are your thoughts?