• Nora Scott, Licensed Social Worker, Dell Children’s Medical Center [Austin, TX]: “We do have patients who are starting [transition] as young as eight, nine [years old].”
• Dr. John Steever, Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center [New York, NY]: “I follow the WPATH guidelines, the World Professional Association of Transgender Health guidelines, and really what they would say is, the way to go at this age – age 10 -- would be something like a puberty blocker…and that really stops puberty pretty quickly so that no further development of the secondary sexual characteristics happen. So, things like, there’s no real chest development. There’s no menstruation. Things like that.”
• Dr. Steever: “When you then get to age 14 is when I’ll consider some, you know, cross-gender hormones. 14 [years-old] is a reasonable age. Most kids are mature enough to make a relatively informed decision.”
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