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You can't give children counselling, you just have to give them the meds and convert them into the gender they want to be. There's no balance, in some cases it

You can't give children counselling, you just have to give them the meds and convert them into the gender they want to be. There's no balance, in some cases it could be psychological and a hormone imbalance (of the childs current gender) In a few years they'll flip flop in the other direction, when children will be denied reassignment, and it'll start all over again. Also this could be dangerous to some in adult life, like telling a partner you used to be a boy as a child.

2muchcoffeeman 11y ago
There was a story on the BBC podcast Analysis, about a UK politician who while helping a transgendered teen, tried to get reassignment treatment funded through NHS. The LGBT group protested. Apparently according to their research the majority of children who feel they are transgender realise they are actually gay.
- vidarh 11y ago
  This sounds odd to me. The NHS has an extensive programme of treatments, including full reassignment: http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Gender-dysphoria/Pages/Treatment.aspx http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Gender-dysphoria/Pages/Treatmen... What they certainly would have refused would be to start reassignment if said teen was not yet 18 and/or had not yet undergone the full evaluation and started socially transitioning, and this is in part for medical reasons, in part because it certainly is true that many children with gender dysphoria eventually come to decide they don't want to transition, either because the gender dyphoria resolves or because they don't feel they need to change physically.
  - 2muchcoffeeman 11y ago
    I scrolled through the podcast episodes and can't find it. I stand by the 2nd paragraph though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria_in_children https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria_in_children Gender identity disorder in children is more heavily linked with adult homosexuality than adult transsexualism. According to limited studies, the majority of children diagnosed with GID cease to desire to be the other sex by puberty, with most growing up to identify as gay or lesbian with or without therapeutic intervention.[5][6]

2muchcoffeeman 11y ago

There was a story on the BBC podcast Analysis, about a UK politician who while helping a transgendered teen, tried to get reassignment treatment funded through NHS. The LGBT group protested. Apparently according to their research the majority of children who feel they are transgender realise they are actually gay.

vidarh 11y ago
This sounds odd to me. The NHS has an extensive programme of treatments, including full reassignment: http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Gender-dysphoria/Pages/Treatment.aspx http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Gender-dysphoria/Pages/Treatmen... What they certainly would have refused would be to start reassignment if said teen was not yet 18 and/or had not yet undergone the full evaluation and started socially transitioning, and this is in part for medical reasons, in part because it certainly is true that many children with gender dysphoria eventually come to decide they don't want to transition, either because the gender dyphoria resolves or because they don't feel they need to change physically.
- 2muchcoffeeman 11y ago
  I scrolled through the podcast episodes and can't find it. I stand by the 2nd paragraph though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria_in_children https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria_in_children Gender identity disorder in children is more heavily linked with adult homosexuality than adult transsexualism. According to limited studies, the majority of children diagnosed with GID cease to desire to be the other sex by puberty, with most growing up to identify as gay or lesbian with or without therapeutic intervention.[5][6]