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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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To: karpov

Child abuse.


21 posted on 06/15/2022 1:30:04 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President)
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To: karpov
The group acknowledged potential risks but said it is unethical and harmful to withhold early treatment.

"First, do no harm".

I guess this outfit has never heard those words...

22 posted on 06/15/2022 1:35:07 PM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: bigdaddy45

“History is not going to be kind to these people.”

History is written by the winners.

“History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books—books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, ‘What is history, but a fable agreed upon?’”

https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/davincicode/quotes/page/3/#:~:text=Quote%203,and%20disparage%20the%20conquered%20foe.


23 posted on 06/15/2022 1:43:14 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Has anyone, recehently, seen a Biden sticker on any vehicle and in particular at/in a gas station!!!)
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To: karpov

Thay claim it’s unethical not to mutilate children. And scar them for life. They are evil.


24 posted on 06/15/2022 1:44:08 PM PDT by robel
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To: dainbramaged
This is utter insanity and should be illegal.

My emotional maturity at that age would have been totally inadequate to make such a decision (no I never did nor wanted this, I am 100% man that loves women!) that can not be reversed. The number of "victims" of this is many and many regret their decision. This is frankly medical abuse.

25 posted on 06/15/2022 1:48:20 PM PDT by cpdiii (CANE CUTTER-DECKHAND-ROUGHNECK-OILFIELD CONSULTANT-GEOLOGIST-PILOT-PHARMACIST)
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To: karpov

How many years until the class action lawsuits against the transgender industry begin?


26 posted on 06/15/2022 2:06:46 PM PDT by omega4412
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To: alloysteel

Even the insane Dr. Mengele didn’t try this.


27 posted on 06/15/2022 2:30:19 PM PDT by Cecily ( )
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To: omega4412

“How many years until the class action lawsuits against the transgender industry begin?”

Those poor science projects... this is total depravity.

What 2 or 3 generations past WWII and it’s back to Mengele the Todesengel only legal and part of a flourishing medical concentration?

Leadership is onboard with these mutilations pre-adulthood? And it’s legal?


28 posted on 06/15/2022 2:30:29 PM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: karpov

“World Professional Association for Transgender Health”

I heard a baby boy was circumcise and when he cried after that happened the transgender folks started screaming “See ... that baby obviously wanted to be a girl”.


29 posted on 06/15/2022 2:32:12 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: karpov
A Trans Person Has Regrets - Irreversible Regrets [Warning- Graphic Language]

'I will never be a man, ever': Transgender man tells author MATT WALSH that America is selling our 'most vulnerable kids' a medical 'illusion' when we tell them they can change their gender

“More than 30,000 users are now signed up to a detransition forum on the Reddit website” [https://www.reddit.com/r/detrans]

'Gender affirming' surgeon admits children who undergo transition before puberty NEVER attain sexual satisfaction

Texas Moms Demand Revision of Textbook that Encourages Withholding Info from Parents

Why Are the Detroit Tigers Funding Gender-Transition Surgeries for Minors?

Watch: Disney Used Pride Special to Encourage Children to Support Gay, Transgender Group GLSEN

Read the troubling story of how trans activists 'groomed' girl, 17, before she was helped to transition into a man after a ONE-HOUR 'gender clinic' consultation... and at 21 she wants to be FEMALE again

30 posted on 06/15/2022 2:39:27 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“Government is the problem.” --Milton Friedman)
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To: karpov

“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.”

Proving that this is NOT based on science.

Biological sex is not “assigned at birth”. It is a permanent, unchangeable, physical trait at the genetic level from the moment of conception.

Biological sex is observed at birth but is usually known before birth through ultrasounds.


31 posted on 06/15/2022 2:50:17 PM PDT by unlearner (Si vis pacem, para bellum. Let him who desires peace prepare for war.)
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To: karpov

(The group acknowledged potential risks but said it is unethical and harmful to withhold early treatment.)

Too bad it wasn’t “unethical and harmful” to withhold early treatment for COVID treatment…..see lawsuit by FLCCC against FDA for withholding ivermectin and antibiotics….

Just tell these children…..comeback when you can’t breathe and your lips turn blue. Might give them time to think.


32 posted on 06/15/2022 3:05:16 PM PDT by megaMAGA
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To: karpov; Impy; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; LS; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; Clemenza; ...

This must be outlawed at the federal level, period. No excuses.


33 posted on 06/15/2022 3:13:25 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

DOJ had a chance in 2018, Barr just didn’t care. Damn him


34 posted on 06/15/2022 3:17:49 PM PDT by darkangel82
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To: karpov

Paging Doctor Mengele. Paging Doctor Mengele. Please report to the operating room STAT. One of the patients is having second thoughts, and we just put him/her under.


35 posted on 06/15/2022 3:55:21 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (All Hail the MAGA King, beloved of Ultra MAGAs and Deplorables!)
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To: karpov

“Conservative parents, I hope, are less likely to go along with the destruction of their children.”

There are jurisdictions where they are not allowed to refuse to give their kids the hormone therapy.


36 posted on 06/15/2022 3:57:16 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (All Hail the MAGA King, beloved of Ultra MAGAs and Deplorables!)
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To: Orosius

In the womb.


37 posted on 06/15/2022 6:22:18 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: karpov
"transgender health association"

That is like the tobacco health association recommending for kids to start smoking younger.

38 posted on 06/15/2022 7:47:39 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Woke parenting.


39 posted on 06/15/2022 9:46:06 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: cpdiii

The number of detransitioners, people who used to call themselves transgenders, on Reddit has exploded. Lots of people who are determined to fight the transgender narrative.


40 posted on 06/15/2022 10:23:39 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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