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Old Oct 17, 2011, 09:59 PM
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I am open to people changing their genders but I do have some concern about starting HRT so young. But I guess that is kind of the point that the child will not go through puberty to become a man and have to deal with all that if the child continues to want to be a woman.

I don't know. When I was 18 y/o I was absolutely certain that I did not and never would want children and wanted to have my tubes tied but nobody would do it. When I was 30 y/o I had my son and I am blessed to be his mother.

What do you think? They aren't doing surgery now so if the child changes his mind in the next few years I presume he can stop the HRT and will undergo physical changes typical of a male.

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Old Oct 21, 2011, 02:19 AM
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First, let's clarify something here. She (I am respecting the child's gender identity here) is not going on HRT - she is only going on hormone blockers to prevent male puberty. Nothing permanent is achieved here, and should she ultimately decide not to go through with transition, she can stop taking hormone blockers and let natural male puberty run it's normal course.

With that said, I would have no problem with an 11 year-old making the choice to start HRT. I think the whole idea that someone so young being unable to decide what gender they are to be utter bullsh*t, quite frankly. Most trans children have a firm sense of their gender identity by the time they are in kindergarten. And since gender identity is based purely on one's own subjective experience, nobody else could possibly be *more* qualified.

Trans youth overwhelmingly have an easier time with adolescence once they undergo transition, for the simple reason that they can be comfortable expressing themselves as who they are. Wanting to have children or not is a very different thing than expressing one's gender identity. One's desires in life can change quite a bit over the years, but a person's gender identity rarely does, if ever.

Believe me, if I could have gone on hormone blockers when I was her age, I would be so much happier today with my body!!!!!
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