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Transitioning at a young age
Opinion of a trans psycologist: Erica Anderson
She thinks transitions have "gone too far"
The dramatic rise in teens seeking treatment is likely driven by peer pressure as much as wider acceptance of trans issues.
“A fair number of kids are getting into it because it’s trendy,”
She believes some children seek treatment in the hope that it helps with wider psychological problems, leaving them depressed when it doesn’t.
“There was a lot of negativity around being a cis, heterosexual, white girl, and I took those messages really, really personally.” From another source: Helena Kerschner, on how the online trans community made her feel pressured to change gender
Transition at a young age is good for mental health
Study in the Journal of Adolescent Health finds that a social transition during childhood or adolescence is not harmful to transgender or gender diverse youth
Stanford University School of Medicine and is believed to be the first to examine mental health outcomes in adulthood of transgender people who experienced social transition during childhood or adolescence.
new knowledge to the growing body of research documenting the harm that transgender people experience when they are exposed to societal discrimination.
Positive aspects on transitioning at a young age (accrding to facial team)
More Time to Adjust to Your New Identity
Potentially Greater Physical Changes
Increased Emotional Well-being
Enhanced Social Integration
Greater Opportunities for Personal Growth
Why detransitioned teens regret changing genders
“I was failed by the system. I literally lost organs.”
At 13, Chloe came out to her parents. That same year, she was put on puberty blockers and prescribed testosterone. At 15, she underwent a double mastectomy. Less than a year later, she realized she’d made a mistake — all by the time she was 16 years old.
Better mental health found among transgender people who started hormones as teens
(stanford medicine study)
Tansgender people who began hormone treatment in adolescence had fewer thoughts of suicide, were less likely to experience major mental health disorders and had fewer problems with substance abuse than those who started hormones in adulthood.
27,715 transgender people nationwide where interviewed. Participants, who were at least 18 when they were surveyed, completed extensive questionnaires about their lives.
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