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Some transgender youths look to black-market hormones

Started by Shana A, April 06, 2011, 08:51:48 AM

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Shana A

Some transgender youths look to black-market hormones
amny

http://www.amny.com/urbanite-1.812039/some-transgender-youths-look-to-black-market-hormones-1.2802396

Meisha Montierro shrugs off concerns that she is not being monitored for potential liver and blood clot complications, or even an increased risk of cancer, that might result from the four estrogen-packed pills she consumes daily to help coax the rounded hips, softened skin, and high voice she wants from her born-boy body.

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Transsexual youths are obtaining hormones on the grey and black markets to help their outsides match their insides, doctors and transgender youth told amNewYork.

While numbers are elusive, for every transgender kid seeing a physician, "there are 10 we're not seeing," said Johanna Olson, an assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde


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Catherine

Its not just the youth... There are loads of people out there self medicating
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