I dunno, I'm not good at explaining this stuff."not acting their birth gender" what does that even mean?. Facebook lists 58 gender options. How would you know?
edit: what's the matter Burorī, why edit your post?
Hormone blockers are perfectly harmless. Well, yes, the kid might not have a growth spurt, no change of voice, recessed genetal development, and increased rates of suicidal thought and self harm, but apart from that nothing serious, really....If the child is, indeed, transgender, I see no reason why the mother shouldn't proceed. Hormone blockers are perfectly harmless and can be reversed by simply stopping the usage of them (all they really do is "pause" puberty). Estrogen typically isn't administered until a little bit later in life, and surgeries usually aren't done until adulthood
This refers to secondary sexual characteristics in women? Is there an equivalent operation that would not be needed for born males?The HRA said clinicians and researchers should "avoid referring to puberty suppressing as providing a 'breathing space' to avoid risk of misunderstanding".
Rather, the purpose of the treatment should be described as being offered to children demonstrating strong and persistent gender identity dysphoria "such that the suppression of puberty would allow subsequent cross-sex hormone treatment without the need to surgically reverse or otherwise mask the unwanted physical effects of puberty in the birth gender".
In clinical practice, several former Gids clinicians question whether people can accurately predict this pathway.
"That would mean Gids has accurate procedures that can differentiate between those whose gender dysphoria in childhood will desist and those for whom it will persist," one ex-Gids clinician, who wished to remain anonymous, told Newsnight.
"The service is not able to do this for a number of reasons, including the nature of the assessment process, research in this field is still lacking, and that the patient cohort has changed significantly in the last few years."
Evidence is also emerging that provides insights into whether puberty blockers are a treatment to help alleviate gender dysphoria, or if they're fundamentally part of the pathway to full medical or surgical transitioning.
"We were constantly told, and told to tell patients that the blockers provided a pause. There was no doubt that that is what we were saying," the former Gids clinician said.
Indeed, last year Dr Polly Carmichael's - director of Gids - team wrote in a journal: "Puberty suspension with GnRHa [puberty blockers] constitutes a treatment in its own right, meaning that it is not indicated purely as a preliminary stage before the next stage of treatment towards gender reassignment, namely gender-affirming cross-sex hormones."
Yet another study by the Dutch team this year found that treatment with puberty blockers "is described as an extended diagnostic phase" and that many transgender adolescents seem to experience them as the "first 'necessary' medical step of a seemingly indisputable trajectory with permanent physical changes (through gender affirming hormones and/or surgeries) in the end".
But as Newsnight has reported, there are methodological issues with many of these studies - they lack control groups and are often quite small. This limits what can be inferred from them.
While the evidence continues to emerge, debate will no doubt continue about use of puberty blockers in young people.
8-year-olds are people pleasers and immitators of their parents. That would explain his conflicting behavior around the father vs the around the mother. You can even turn 8-year-olds into Jihadis, for example. I had no idea about sex when I was 8. I wasn´t even sure about genitals, nor did I care. Even bringing up this question induces a lot of stress in the child and should be considered child abuse. Children cannot be left children anymore.Even 8-year-olds are intelligent enough to understand when something is wrong with their gender identity and/or gender expression, and it's important that they're given the chance to voice such frustrations.
That's a problem, an even bigger one is when he grows up and realizes what his mother did to him.that kid definitely won't get bullied at school...
Even if it was fully the child's idea or she completely means well, going to have to say no to this one. If gender or even outright sex was easily reversible, that would be a different story. At least then, the person would have a choice later on.
Your body is a temple.puberty blockers are well received by most people unless they have an allergy. you can put a pause on puberty and worry about which hormones the child will receive when they get to the proper age. this allows them time to talk with therapists and psychologists about options, feelings, gender dysphoria, body dysphoria, etc. if the child decides to not transition, it's no harm no foul, and they stop the puberty blockers. to even get the medications needed for any of this to occur, they need to be screened by licensed psychologists and therapists.
Your body is a temple.
Religion has a place in every conversation.yes it is, and people can change it how they want. maybe a few new rooms, new coat of paint, maybe a new interior. It is THEIR body and they can make changes to it as they, and their team of trained medical professionals, see fit. religion has no place in this conversation, this is in science's domain.
Because, of course, they aren't suicidal because they're ostracized for their choice, but simply because of the choice. Makes sense! Genius!Give them what? SRS? Then 10 years later they end up killing themselves? Sounds like a great plan...
Yeah, the bin.Religion has a place in every conversation.
Fuckin' hell, I'd have a sex change myself for that kind of money...Apparently the father has to pay 5000$ a month.
....and that is literally where this particular story should end! I would usually lean towards the 'wait until after puberty' argument myself, but then again kids aren't stupid: my 2 year old nephew started to point my mobile phone at my face to unlock it, then when I took that feature off, he then grabs my finger in an attempt to use the fingerprint unlock! 2 years old! I was trying to push building blocks up the cats arse when I was 2! But anyway... - if the child is not 100% sure then the whole idea is nonsensical: somebody should give the mother a giant slap..UltraDolphinRevolution said:There is dispute whether the son actually wants to become a girl.