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Category Archives: Trans youth
Four recent studies confirm benefits of medical transition for trans adolescents
Puberty-blocking medications are used in gender-dysphoric adolescents as a means of temporarily and reversibly inhibiting an undesired natal puberty. In the event that their dysphoria desists, the medication can be discontinued, and their natal puberty will resume; if their dysphoria … Continue reading
Posted in Endocrinology, Gender dysphoria, Outcomes of transition, Trans youth
Tagged HRT, puberty blockers, transition, youth, youth transition
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Why gender-questioning youth continue or discontinue puberty blockers
Puberty-blocking medications for trans or gender-questioning adolescents, which reversibly halt the production of sex hormones and prevent the development of undesired secondary sex characteristics for as long as the medication is continued, have long been the subject of unnecessary controversy … Continue reading
Posted in Nonbinary, Outcomes of transition, Regret and detransition, Trans youth
Tagged HRT, puberty blockers, youth transition
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Large study of trans youth on HRT finds zero incidents of thrombosis
One of the most serious side effects of feminizing hormone therapy can be the development of thrombosis, a blood clot which blocks the normal circulation of blood, leading to potentially fatal conditions such as pulmonary embolism, heart attack, or stroke. … Continue reading
Posted in Endocrinology, Trans youth, Transgender medicine
Tagged HRT, youth transition
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Puberty blockers can be beneficial for trans girls even in late adolescence
Guidelines for the treatment of trans adolescents with puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones recommend that puberty blockers should be initiated once the first physical changes of natal puberty, Tanner stage 2, have begun (Hembree et al., 2017). However, in practice, … Continue reading
Once more, with peer review: Transitioning is not anti-gay conversion therapy
For years now, anti-trans activists have made the contention that the availability of gender-affirming care for trans youth, including social transition and medical transition with puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, functions as a form of anti-gay conversion therapy in which … Continue reading
