Amazing work by @jessesingal on ethically treating trans kids — accounting for both the risks of forgoing early interventions & the risks of forging ahead too quickly during a period of identity instability & exploration https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-a-child-says-shes-trans/561749/ …
Admittedly, I’m coming at this as a cis woman who wants to have children soon & would be horrified to (a) prevent an optimal transition through delays OR to (b) watch my kid be pulled along an irreversible trajectory that wasn’t ultimately right for them. Either way, horrifying.
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Those are both horrifying options for sure -- where I think many parents go wrong is in treating them as equally likely. Among adults, transition regret is perhaps at very roughly 1%, 1/162 in one study (https://genderanalysis.net/2015/07/walt-heyer-and-sex-change-regret-gender-analysis-09/ …).
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Further: not all of that 1% specifically regrets loss of fertility; not all medical interventions for trans teens *cause* loss of fertility. Yes, adults are different from teenagers, of course. But we're starting from a baseline of transition regret being really unlikely.
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