Growing Up Trans

There is a global concentrated attack by conservative against us and its focus is puberty blockers, it started in Britain and has spread across the world. Here in the U.S. conservative legislators have been introducing legislation banning proper treatment for us.

Transgender children need time to understand who they are
The Sidney Morning Herald
By Simona Giordano
December 20, 2020


In light of the British High Court’s decision that children under 16 are unlikely to be able to consent to puberty blockers, questions are being asked about the standards of care for transgender children, and the extent to which health services encourage transgender identity and transition.

Transgender children are not a recent phenomenon, nor are the therapies provided to them. The first standards of care were published in 1979 and the eighth revision is on its way. Clinical practice internationally has evolved in this time, from initial psychoanalytic or behavioural therapy that tried to fix the “mismatch” between “the body and mind”, to today’s approach, where established gender identity clinics try to help children find out their identity in a non-judgmental way.
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While many gender non-conforming children do not transition, others find pubertal development distressing or unbearable. Trans boys may not tolerate breast development and binding is painful and harmful; they often experience the appearance of menarche as humiliating. Trans girls may not tolerate the growth of facial and bodily hair, the masculinisation of their bodies, the spontaneous erections that come with puberty, the deepening of their voices.

We know from many studies including the U.S. 2015 Transgender Survey that we have very high self-harm rate if our gender dysphoria goes untreated, according to the 2015 survey suicidal idealization are over 40 percent.

The biggest threat to the health of gender diverse people is not the provision of medical care – thinking that it is borders on absurd. As the World Health Organisation, the Council of Europe and the UN have repeatedly stressed, the biggest threat to the health of gender diverse people is the barriers to medical care.

We know from many, many studies that just by having proper medical and family support that the suicidal idealization rates drops to general population levels.

In an article in Insider…

What you should know about puberty blockers, a standard treatment for trans youth
By Canela López
December 10, 2020

• Puberty blockers, also known as hormone blockers, are a treatment used to block primary sex hormones like testosterone and estrogen to delay puberty in transgender kids.
• Puberty blockers are temporary and are meant to delay puberty so that trans youth make the best decisions moving forward, like whether or not to pursue hormone replacement therapy (HRT).
• Going through puberty can be a large trigger of gender dysphoria and depression for trans youth, as it can mean developing unwanted breasts, facial hair, and a deepening voice.
• Children who experience gender dysphoria oftentimes experience depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideations, which can all intensify going through puberty.

On December 3, the UK's High Court ruled that children under 16 are not old enough to consent to medical treatments such as hormone blockers – a common gender-affirming treatment for trans youth.

The landmark ruling came after Keira Bell, a 23-year-old patient, was prescribed hormone blockers for her gender dysphoria, and later changed her mind.

Trans advocates argued the ruling could be harmful for trans youth who may need gender-affirming care for their mental health.

"Puberty blockers have been saving lives for many transgender young people for a significant period of time," Lui Asquith, legal director of Mermaids, a trans advocacy group, told Reuters.

Conservative judges are making legal decisions that are best left to the medical profession.

If you read the right wing news media you would think that puberty blockers make permanent changes to a trans child and that the medical profession are some type of sadistic doctors who want to turn boys into girls.

Lets face it, this is all propaganda right wing. They couldn’t win in the courts, they couldn’t win in the legislatures, they could win by making out to be some type of sexual predators so now they are focusing their attack on us being too young to understand our gender identity.

In their hatred of us they are willing to deny us proper medical care and let is us die.