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[quote=Gaia][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Medical intervention (hormones and surgery) is pretty drastic. What do you think transgendered people should have to do before using medical intervention (eg turn 18, mental health evaluations, etc)?

Esp curious about how you think parents should handle treatment and intervention for transgendered minors. [/quote]

NOT the OP, but I want to address the hormone thing because it comes up a lot for parents of trans* kids.  Starting HRT after age 18, if you know your child identifies as trans*, is actually too late.  The current thinking is to start the HRT before puberty starts, so that the child doesn't develop all of the secondary sex characteristics of their assigned sex.  If the child later decides not to pursue the HRT, or that they perfer to identify as genderqueer or butch or whatever instead of trans*, then they can stop taking the HRT and will go through puberty as normal.  So, it's not that drastic.  [/quote]

You're on the right track, PP. Minors who identify as being transgender often take hormone blockers so their bodies do not go through puberty. Stopping these blockers allows puberty to progress naturally, or they can go right into HRT.

I wish I had been able to take those blockers. Puberty is never fun![/quote]

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