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[quote=Anonymous]In the American Psychological Association's DSM, it states that most kids with gender dysphoria desist by late adolescence to early adulthood.

Treatment goes from ultra agressive Dutch Protocol (early hormone treatments at earliest time possible) to conservative "wait and see".

Historically, the "wait and see" has been done, but there is a contagion of kids wanting to be transgender in the last 2 years.  Most likely due to the attention it has gotten, and pop stardom of Jazz.

I personally would go the conservative approach, no hormones (they could leave your child permanently sterile) and no puberty blockers (The hormones being blocked have been shown to increase the number of kids going on to take cross sex hormones and surgery later).

The percentage of kids who think they are trans, but later backtrack is very, very high.  In fact, it is way more than half.  Before doing anything that will cause permanent developmental changes that they will regret, I would go slow and careful.

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