![]() ![]() If medical experts do recommend physical treatment, patients have the option to begin taking puberty blockers, which constitute a safe and reversible approach to halting puberty. ![]() Contrary to Paul’s implication, youths don’t rashly advance to the physical transition stage. ![]() This initial assessment and affirmation phase is protracted - so much so that some youths initiate the process of socially transitioning, whereby they begin presenting in society as their correct gender, with new pronouns, clothing, and the like). Typically, an entire team of psychological evaluators, pediatricians, and endocrinologists weigh in to determine if the youth has “persistent, well-documented gender dysphoria” before proceeding with any treatments. ![]() Youths do not make their own gender-affirming decisions ad hoc, as Paul claims, after “read on the internet about something about transsexuals.”īefore a doctor prescribes some kind of physical intervention, standards of care established by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health require a gender-questioning youth to undergo comprehensive psychological evaluation and counseling. ![]()
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