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Trans kids’ treatment can start younger, new guidelines say
Associated Press ^ | June 15, 2022 | Lindsey Tanner

Posted on 06/15/2022 1:01:10 PM PDT by karpov

A leading transgender health association has lowered its recommended minimum age for starting gender transition treatment, including sex hormones and surgeries.

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health said hormones could be started at age 14, two years earlier than the group’s previous advice, and some surgeries done at age 15 or 17, a year or so earlier than previous guidance. The group acknowledged potential risks but said it is unethical and harmful to withhold early treatment.

The association provided The Associated Press with an advance copy of its update ahead of publication in a medical journal, expected later this year. The international group promotes evidence-based standards of care and includes more than 3,000 doctors, social scientists and others involved in transgender health issues.

The update is based on expert opinion and a review of scientific evidence on the benefits and harms of transgender medical treatment in teens whose gender identity doesn’t match the sex they were assigned at birth, the group said. Such evidence is limited but has grown in the last decade, the group said, with studies suggesting the treatments can improve psychological well-being and reduce suicidal behavior.

Starting treatment earlier allows transgender teens to experience physical puberty changes around the same time as other teens, said Dr. Eli Coleman, chair of the group’s standards of care and director of the University of Minnesota Medical School’s human sexuality program.

But he stressed that age is just one factor to be weighed. Emotional maturity, parents’ consent, longstanding gender discomfort and a careful psychological evaluation are among the others.

“Certainly there are adolescents that do not have the emotional or cognitive maturity to make an informed decision,” he said. “That is why we recommend a careful multidisciplinary assessment.”

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: genitalmutilation; pubertyblockers; trans; transgender
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If children with gender dysphoria grow out of it, the "transgender health professionals" make less money. I bet a much larger fraction of Democratic than Republican parents have children who go down the genital mutilation path. This would be an interesting study. How do the rates of genital mutilation differ by state? Conservative parents, I hope, are less likely to go along with the destruction of their children.
1 posted on 06/15/2022 1:01:10 PM PDT by karpov
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This is utter insanity and should be illegal.


2 posted on 06/15/2022 1:02:11 PM PDT by dainbramaged (What did the cook say when the rat fell into the chowder? "Better luck next time.")
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Crimes against children. This is getting so insane


3 posted on 06/15/2022 1:02:33 PM PDT by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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Guidelines?


4 posted on 06/15/2022 1:04:09 PM PDT by stanne
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Child Abuse


5 posted on 06/15/2022 1:05:09 PM PDT by butlerweave
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"Mommy, can I have a cigarette?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"Because you're five."

"Mommy, can I drive the car?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"Because you're five."

"Mommy, can I cut off my penis and become a girl?"

"Certainly dear. You know what's best."

6 posted on 06/15/2022 1:05:24 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: toddausauras

This world is circling the drain.


7 posted on 06/15/2022 1:05:36 PM PDT by rdl6989 ( )
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The World Professional Association for Transgender Health

Three sickos with a web site.

8 posted on 06/15/2022 1:06:52 PM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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Trans advocatea say its okay to not conform to gender norms but then push the body needs to change, going from a girl being able to have short hair who end up with experimental sterilisation.

Population growth control.


9 posted on 06/15/2022 1:08:16 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
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Matthew 18:6
“But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.”


10 posted on 06/15/2022 1:08:56 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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And their rate of suicide can increase along with it.


11 posted on 06/15/2022 1:14:04 PM PDT by TigersEye (Shall not be infringed!)
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A leading transgender health association

Not long ago, these people would have been considered criminals.

12 posted on 06/15/2022 1:14:21 PM PDT by FatherofFive (We support Trump. Not the GOP)
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History is not going to be kind to these people.


13 posted on 06/15/2022 1:15:03 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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Ethics and lasting harm, up to and resulting in an actual suicide ten years later.

These “transgender” adolescents can only be transformed from a male into a neuter, or a female into a neuter. No successful full transformation of a male into a female, or a female into a male, has ever been done in the annals of medicine, and it never shall be. There is no way to change the chromosome pairs XY into XX, short of perhaps divine intervention, and I do not believe that is a plan of of any deity in known human religions.


14 posted on 06/15/2022 1:15:12 PM PDT by alloysteel (There are folks running the government who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches - Will Rogers)
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I am acquainted with some conservative parents who are at the mercy of the system. Their now sophomore in college has started hormone treatment against their wishes. He fell in with a trans group at college, and came home freshman year wanting to transition. A 45-minute consultation with a “gender-affirming” doctor was all that was needed for the go ahead. Legally he’s an adult. They are heartbroken.


15 posted on 06/15/2022 1:16:17 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I wish “smart resume” would work for the real world so I could FF through the Burden admin BS.)
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Hey, why not start “transitioning “ them at birth? You’re never too young to get mutilated for life.


16 posted on 06/15/2022 1:18:48 PM PDT by Orosius
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How come there are only two genders to choose from when transitioning? I thought there are 57 or something like that. So why only two to choose from?


17 posted on 06/15/2022 1:18:55 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I wish “smart resume” would work for the real world so I could FF through the Burden admin BS.)
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To: karpov

pure evil


18 posted on 06/15/2022 1:19:24 PM PDT by RatRipper (The Biden Adm is leading an attack against US citizens . . . pure evil.)
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Every member of “The World Professional Association for Transgender Health” should be forcibly removed from society.


19 posted on 06/15/2022 1:20:02 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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This is against human nature, and insane. It is mutilation of children!

And so the current wave of insanity grows bigger.


20 posted on 06/15/2022 1:27:40 PM PDT by I want the USA back (To get the USA back - we have to recover from the current wave of insanity.)
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