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To: average joe who wrote (43525)	5/12/2013 9:01:09 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

More controversial in Gooberland than in the medical profession. The SIL of a buddy is the guardian of their grandson, who told them at the age of about 5 that "I'm a girl, my name is now..". Don't worry about it. If you haven't figured out differently at your age, you are what you think you are, and won't have to play with drugs and surgery. Had several patients who underwent surgery. First one served on a US sub in WW2, then became a tattooed lady in the circus. Pretty amazing art work. = July 09, 2008 Buying time for transgendered children: hormone treatment delays puberty source: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Sex/story?id=4901803&page=1 A procedure some are mistakenly calling a sex change treatment for children has been drawn into the spotlight in recent days - although it has been going on for many years. Dr. Norman Spack, endocrinologist at Children's Hospital in Boston, revealed that he has at least 10 pediatric transgendered patients to whom he has been giving a hormone-blocking treatment to delay puberty. While Spack may be the first to go public about what he is doing, he is not the first to help children delay their puberty so they can reach maturity before deciding if they would like to transition to the opposite sex. According to Milton Diamond, a sexual development researcher and the director of the Pacific Center for Sex and Society at the University of Hawaii, says that the hormone-blocking therapy itself is not a sex reassignment. Quite the contrary, it is a "delaying tactic to allow the individual to come to terms with the direction he or she wants to go". The treatments are done in accordance with the Harry Benjamin guidelines (generally accepted clinical guidelines for treating transsexual patients), which call for fully reversible treatments for prepubescent children. The therapy entails an injection of either luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) or medroxyprogesterone, which block estrogen or testosterone to delay the onset of puberty. In addition to delaying the onset of puberty, the hormone-blocking process does help patients avoid unwanted bodily features if they do decide to undergo a sex change upon reaching adulthood. It is the changes of puberty that often cause the most distress for transgendered children. Male transsexuals can avoid going through menstruation, while female patients can avoid growing body hair or developing a deep voice if they begin sex reassignment once their childhood hormone-blocking regimen ends. Although the treatment is reversible, Diamond says that most who reach that point will go on to transition. "Almost all those who have gender identity disorder continue on to surgery, or at least continue on to transitions," says Diamond. current.com