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Is 10 years Old too young for a Sex Change?

Transgender Operation for a child

  • Sure, why not. Provided it's legitimate

  • An Abomination - Not Ever

  • Too Young: Child, Parents, *and* Judge need Psychotherapy

  • Child to Therapy - Child can arrange upon his Majority

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Scotteq

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http://theweek.com/article/index/214428/is-10-years-old-too-young-for-a-sex-change


Is 10 years old too young for a sex change?

A judge in Australia OKs preliminary sex-change therapy for a 10-year-old boy who's been living as a girl

posted on April 20, 2011, at 12:05 PM


How young is too young when it comes to gender reassignment? That's a question some parents and medical professionals around the world are grappling with. Last week, the British government approved the use of hormone blockers to prevent puberty for gender-confused kids as young as 12. Now, a judge in Australia has approved sex-change therapy drugs for a 10-year-old boy named Jamie, who has been living as a girl for the past two years. Jamie will be allowed to medically delay her rapidly approaching male puberty, and the court will re-examine the case if and when Jamie is ready to start "stage-two" estrogen therapy. Cosmetic surgery to change genitalia cannot take place until the age of 18. "The rapid onset of her male puberty has demanded some urgent decisions," the judge said.
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I have to admit to being more than a little flabbergasted this is even a question. Especially since, on a physical level, the operation is pretty much irreversable once performed.
 
For some reason I read the title as "Is 10 years old too young for a scotch"

Edit: In either case the answer is yes; barring a provable genetic condition for the child, or if you have no better booze options for the scotch.
 
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Now, a judge in Australia has approved sex-change therapy drugs for a 10-year-old boy named Jamie, who has been living as a girl for the past two years.
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why was he living as a girl for the past two years?!?
 
Doesn't hurt to start the hormone therapy now, since this is about the time puberty would hit.

As for cutting up the crotch, I'd guess it would be a bad time since parts are still growing down there. You wouldn't want to change things up and then find out later that certain parts grew more than usual and totally fucked up the job.
 
The only problem I have with this, is how do we know for sure there isn't parental manipulation? How do we know the mom isn't bitter she got a boy and wanted a girl, so she pushed for this? Gender disappointment is a very real thing. I want to say I'm ok with this sort of thing, I just think if the above is what is happening it is fucked up.
 
Biologically, if you're going to do it, now would be the time. However, deciding whether or not to go through gender reassignment is something that will have tremendous impact on this kid's life, and 10 years old, IMO, is too young of an age for a child to make that decision.
 
Yeah, 10 is too soon for anything real. But from the article, they're just giving hormone blockers at this age, which isn't permanent. If they stop the blockers, the kid will go through puberty at a later age. It just looks like a stalling tactic until age 18. Still no surgery allowed until age 18.
 
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I guess I'd want to know if there was already an existing hormone/chromosome issue like Klinefelters or others that confuse our bodies/minds into thinking we are something else.
 
I'll admit that I just don't understand this at all. Yes, this is definitely too young. It's a decision that will affect this child for their entire life. He's still genetically male.I personally think these surgeries are a gross misuse of medical resources. Send the kid to some therapy first, and wait until he can make his own decisions.
 
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He waited 40 years.... D:
 
Drako said:
How would anyone think that this isn't parental manipulation?
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Because I honestly believe humans gender is more complex than just being born a man or a woman? I don't know dude, but it seems pretty plausible to me that some people are born with the "wrong brain in the wrong body" so to speak.
 
bfdd said:
The only problem I have with this, is how do we know for sure there isn't parental manipulation? How do we know the mom isn't bitter she got a boy and wanted a girl, so she pushed for this? Gender disappointment is a very real thing. I want to say I'm ok with this sort of thing, I just think if the above is what is happening it is fucked up.
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Yup, look at the parents and I bet they are pushing this on the poor kid.
 
Drako said:
How would anyone think that this isn't parental manipulation?
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Anyone whose studied human gender/sexuality? If a kid starts expressing gay/tg behavior at about 5, and it continues for years with no change, they're probably going to stay that way for their entire life.
 
preslove said:
Anyone whose studied human gender/sexuality? If a kid starts expressing gay/tg behavior at about 5, and it continues for years with no change, they're probably going to stay that way for their entire life.
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So? What's wrong with letting the kid grow up gay, why is it OK for the parents to make the decision for the kid to have a sex change?
 
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Drako said:
So? What let the kid grow up gay, why is it OK for the parents to make the decision for the kid to have a sex change?
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1). Gay and trans isn't the same thing.
2). Putting them on hormones before puberty will lead to a much prettier girl.
3). How the fuck do you know that the kid doesn't want it?

There are many, many, many, many, many, many, many, kids who grow up just knowing that their gender doesn't match their sex. If the kid feels like she is a girl, AND A THERAPIST AGREES, then the parents should go along.

Are you a psychologist/therapist/lcsw/psychiatrist?
 
preslove, the only problem is how can the therapist prove there is no parental manipulation? The parents could have raised the kid until they were 8 into wanting to be a girl, totally fucked with his/her head.

Of course I'm not saying this DID happen, I'm saying this COULD happen especially with how big of a deal gender disappointment is for some women, seems to be an even bigger deal now a days than before too.
 
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