Good News For Trans Youth On The Cusp Of Puberty
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/good-news-for-trans-youth-on-the-cusp-of-puberty_5637b6bfe4b0c66bae5d45e8?utm_hp_ref=transgender
The Huffington Post/Reuters/By Andrew M. Seaman Posted: 11/02/2015 02:24 PM EST
"(Reuters Health) - Puberty can be one of the worst times in a transgender or gender-nonconforming child's life, but for these children, access to drugs that prevent puberty may be getting easier, researchers say in a new paper.
"You can just imagine what it must be like for a child who believes at the core of their being that they're a boy and they're having a period every month," said Dr. Aron Janssen, director of the NYU Langone Medical Center's Gender and Sexuality Service in New York City."
Hormones blockers? I'm taking it!!!
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Identity is more than transient or make believe statements when little Johnny or Suzi say they want to be a horsey one day or fire truck the next day. A child's gender identity is established when it is 'persistent, insistent, and consistent' according to my psychiatrist. I always knew what I 'am' through my feminine protesting since at least age 3. I was 'persistent, insistent, and consistent'; it was my family who could not accept me and it was the lack of a medical community to help me.
I read posted comments here at Susan's of people filled with self-doubt and uncertain of self-exploration; I feel so sad at their lives requiring so much more work to resolve than I'll ever comprehend. I accepted 'me' from the start.
As for the medicine, it is grand to live at a time when medical science is making forward progress for today's children who know who they are.
Oh, if only puberty blockers and hormones had been available during my day. I would have been in line first-thing in the morning. My puberty did not start till late - in my early 20s - so I lived my teen years in torture not knowing when it would kick in, yet knowing that biological clock would strike 12 eventually. At least my ERT had little to overcome.
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