Stopping The Dreaded Puberty

For trans children when puberty or Tanner Stage II starts it brings added stress to them, now there are visible changes taking place that are transforming their bodies into someone they are not. But at the same time they are still too young to make an informed consent about their future, so what is a child to do?

Puberty Blockers May Improve The Mental Health Of Transgender Adolescents
Kaiser Health BNews
By Elaine Korry
August 19, 2016

Puberty is no picnic, even in the best of circumstances. Once the sex hormones estrogen or testosterone kick in, there’s no turning back: Here come breasts and periods, Adam’s apples and acne. It’s a tough passage for many kids, but for some — transgender youth whose bodies don’t match their gender identity — puberty can be unbearable.

For one Oakland family, their daughter’s path was clear from the time she was 3. Her birth certificate said “male,” but the child would always say she wanted to be a girl, and that soon became, “I AM a girl,” said the mother, who asked that her family’s name not be used to protect her daughter’s privacy. She recalled a day when the girl wept in frustration trying to fashion a skirt out of some t-shirts.

“Finally I just said, ‘Honey, do you want a dress?’’ and they went to a store and bought one. “I literally thought she was going to faint or hyperventilate,” said the mother. “She couldn’t sit still, she was so excited and so happy. It was a moment of pure joy for her, and also a turning point,” she said.

She was happy growing up and attended a progressive school in the San Francisco Bay Area as a girl. But when she was approaching puberty, she became very nervous, “worried about getting facial hair or watching her shoulders get broader. It was all very painful for her,” her mother said.

But all that can be stopped cold in its tracks by puberty blockers.

Full-blown puberty is irreversible, but for transgender children, it’s no longer inevitable. By taking a gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonist, secretion of the sex hormones can be stopped and the onset of puberty suppressed, so that the body does not develop secondary sex characteristics. This has been done safely for decades to suppress sex hormones in children who develop too early, a condition known as precocious puberty. Suppressors have also been used to treat endometriosis, uterine fibroids and prostate cancer.

It was only in 2008 that the Endocrine Society approved puberty suppressors as a treatment for transgender adolescents as young as 12 years old. The Society, with members in more than 100 countries, has since declared that the intervention appears to be safe and effective.  In 2011 the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), also issued Standards of Care for the treatment of patients with gender dysphoria, which include puberty suppression.

The blocker can be a life saver…

“If you are able to suspend puberty as soon as it happens you’re optimizing the benefits that it can bring physically,” said Leibowitz. Starting early may alleviate the need for surgical breast removal or voice modification therapy later on. It also makes it far easier for transgender teens to fit in. “That ability to blend in and be perceived as the gender that they identify with is associated with long-term psychological benefits,” said Leibowitz.

By giving the child time can make all the difference in their lives, it gives them time to get to know if this is right for them. It gives them time to breath without the pressure of time.

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The evil “medical association” you probably have heard them being quoted in articles against us. There is the American Academy of Pediatrics with tens of thousands of members and then there is the “other” pediatrics association the one with it is believed to be less than a couple of hundred members. I say believed because they refuse to give out membership numbers.

Fake Medical Organization Publishes Lie-Ridden Manifesto Attacking Transgender Kids
Do not trust your children with the American College of Pediatricians.
Think Progress
By Zack Ford
August 19, 2016

Earlier this year, the American College of Pediatricians (ACP) issued a position statement rejecting transgender kids. Now, the fake medical organization that exists solely to oppose abortion and LGBT equality — not to be confused with the legitimate American Academy of Pediatricians — has published a more extensive manifesto denying the reality that some kids are transgender and benefit from being respected in those identities.

ACP’s thesis is founded on false statements that begin appearing by the second sentence of the document. Here are 14 claims the ACP makes about kids’ gender identities that are either unsupportable or directly contradicted by the available research.

Here are some of their unfounded positions,

1. Gender is not biological.The ACP article opens by insisting, quite matter-of-factly, that gender “is a psychological concept and sociological term, not a biological one.” This sets the tone for the rest of the article, which is largely — and admittedly — dedicated to delegitimizing trans identities as an innate trait.
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3. Delaying puberty harms children.The primary form of medical treatment offered to transgender children is puberty blockers, which delay puberty from making permanent changes to the child’s body, allowing them more time to mature and be sure of their gender identity before taking permanent steps. ACP simply takes for granted that this must be harmful.

When there are a number of research study to the contrary.

Then they tell the Big Lie, it is all the parents fault,

7. Parents are responsible for making their kids trans.Because ACP is trying to make the case that there’s no biological component to being trans, they then blame parents for making their kids trans.

Examples include claims that mothers who are upset they didn’t have daughters might try to cross-dress their sons and that fathers of feminine boys might spend less time with them. If a mother is depressed and withdraws or a father overworks and isn’t around, “the boy’s anxiety and insecurity intensify, as does his anger, which may all result in his inability to identify with his biological sex.” The citation for all of these claims? Articles by the aforementioned Zucker, who encouraged parents to try to force their kids to engage in gendered behaviors.

Yes, lay a guilt trip on the parents!

ACP thinks that kids might also just be self-diagnosing themselves as transgender after visiting sites like Tumblr, Reddit, and YouTube. Rather than recognize that some kids might just be able to better understand their own inner conflict when they can access resources that explain it, ACP suggests “that social contagion may be at play.”

Oh yes, it is now the cool “in thing” to do be trans so you can be bullied, harassed and even killed.

Then they used twisted logic to twist the outcome of the Swedish study,

14. There’s a high rate of suicide among trans people who’ve undergone surgery.No attack on the veracity of transgender identities is complete without the hackneyed claim that transitioning somehow causes or maintains depression and can lead to suicide. Like everybody else who makes this claim, ACP relies on a study from Sweden that found that “the rate of suicide among post-operative transgender adults was nearly twenty times greater than that of the general population.” This indicates that “sex reassignment alone does not provide the individual with a level of mental health on par with the general population.”

But ACP cites this while arguing against surgery for transgender people entirely, and it’s been widely debunked that the Swedish study does not inform any conclusions about the effectiveness of surgery. In fact, the author of that study, Cecilia Dhejne, has explicitly rebuked attempts to draw such conclusions. “People who misuse the study always omit the fact that the study clearly states that it is not an evaluation of gender dysphoria treatment,” she told Cristan Williams at The TransAdvocate last year. “If we look at the literature, we find that several recent studies conclude that WPATH Standards of Care compliant treatment decreases gender dysphoria and improves mental health.”

But hate has no bounds; it is okay to lie, and to bear false witness as long as it is against LGBT people.

This is what the Southern Poverty Law Center had to say about the ACP, the mince no words…

Meet the Anti-LGBT Hate Group that Filed an Amicus Brief with the Alabama Supreme Court
By Hatewatch Staff
November 13, 2015

The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) is an anti-LGBT hate group founded in 2002. It bills itself as “a national organization of pediatricians and other healthcare professionals dedicated to the health and well-being of children.”

Like other organizations, ACPeds involves itself in judicial matters, and files amicus briefs with various courts in support of or in opposition to various cases.

What its website will not tell you is that this fringe organization, under the veneer of its professional-sounding name and claims, works to defame and discredit LGBT people, often by distorting legitimate research. It consists of around 200 members and started because a small group of anti-LGBT physicians and other healthcare professionals broke away from the 60,000 member American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), composed of leaders in the professional field, to form its own group after the AAP issued a new policy statement in 2002 in support of adoption and foster parenting by same-sex couples.

ACPeds has a history of propagating damaging falsehoods about LGBT people, including linking homosexuality to pedophilia, and claiming that LGBT people are more promiscuous than heterosexuals, and that LGBT people are a danger to children.

The SPLC sums it up nicely,

But in the strange world of the anti-LGBT right, damaging falsehoods about LGBT people are considered true while legitimate science is seen as false. This is why fringe think tanks like ACPeds have formed in hard-right circles: a means to hold on to and perpetuate views that are being proven wrong with every passing day.

The conservative news media like the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times and Fox News love the ACP because they can quote the official sounding name to justify their bias