Transgender Children

Launching of the clinic for treatment of potential transgender children faced with strong opposition of angry experts.

Transgender children and puberty

Pediatric specialist Dr. Norman Spack from the Children’s Hospital in Boston has launched a clinic for transgender children – boys who feel like girls and girls who want to be boys.

He offers these potential transgender children counseling and medication that delays the onset of puberty. The medication stops the natural flood of hormones that would make it difficult to have a sex change later in life, thus allowing patients more time to decide on the change of sex. He also offers teenagers hormone therapy that has a considerable influence on the growth and development of the body.

While some doctors are convinced that there is a transgender gene and this type of therapy helps, others believe that this is not the way to solve transgender disorder. One of the opposers of the clinic says that transgender disorder is a mental disorder, and it should be treated with behavioral therapy, not hormones or surgery. The therapy with medications may be stopped without any long-term effects, while long-term hormone therapies may have fateful consequences as they cause infertility both in men and women.

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