2/ In 2014, Johanna Olson-Kennedy admitted she had been "skipping the blockers" for some of her young patients--for years. "It was considered unheard-of to start a twelve year old on cross-sex hormones. And we just went for it and did it."https://web.archive.org/web/20170805021406/https://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2014/11/11/skipping-the-puberty-blockers-american-transgender-children-doctors-are-going-rogue/ …
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3/ Aug 2017: Olson-Kennedy spoke at Gender Odyssey conference in Seattle, acknowledging deleterious impact of blockers on bone density: " You need to have sex steroids for bone protection and probably a lot of other things that we are not nearly as clued in as we need to be."
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4/ "... I hesitate to have people on just blockers in that age range for more than 2 years. Although I think you still can do that and certainly we use blockers in adult populations for longer than 2 years. But I do worry about their bone density..."
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5/ Olson-Kennedy's young "nonbinary" patients & how they want to "wear their gender" seem to drive clinical decisions re: when to start T & use of blockers--all determined by the young ppl themselves, natch. Audio of Olson-Kennedy at Gender Odyssey here: https://archive.org/details/genderoddessyconferenceaugust2017qaforparentsofkidsover12wjoannaandaydinolsonkennedy …pic.twitter.com/mwzczQzdPK
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6/ The fact that puberty-blocked teens hate being developmentally behind their peers is also a key. The pressure to move on ASAP to cross-sex hormones--or even surgeries--is felt by all, including parents and clinicians, as elucidated in this thread.https://twitter.com/4th_WaveNow/status/1118896010103750656 …
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This article embedded within the other article is telling. http://www.houstoniamag.com/news-and-city-life/articles/what-do-transgender-children-need-november-2014 …pic.twitter.com/lRmyV1gCsi
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Linda, esse site é nossa maior inspiração! <3
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