You know what? It is profoundly inappropriate to refer to a child coming out - whether as gay or trans - as "diagnosing". Being gay or trans is not an illness; a diagnosis is not needed. You may find it healthily informative to read this:https://www.huffingtonpost.com/Amelia/when-your-7-year-old-son-announces-im-gay_b_1277910.html …
RE-READ-THE TWEET. Never said blockers alone sterilized; said BOTH and this is being done routinely and early in the United States. Done here.
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Okay. In the UK, puberty blockers are sometimes prescribed: hormone treatment has to wait til 16: surgery til 18 at earliest. Of course there's no issue with social transition, except such opposition as you find with the Christian Right / TERFs.
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Oddly enough, the Dutch clinician-researchers who pioneered use of puberty blockers for trans kids caution against social transition of young ones, which is more and more in vogue everywhere. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21216800 pic.twitter.com/yqRRGzX9LN
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