As working with people with gender dysphoria requires a different model of understanding, it remains legitimate to listen, assess, explore, wait, watch development, offer skilled support, deal with co-morbidities and prior traumas, and consider use of a variety of models of care. While respecting individuals’ right to a different viewpoint, it is neither mandatory to affirm their beliefs nor automatic that transition is the goal, particularly when dealing with children, adolescents and young adults. These risk closing the ‘open future’, as well as life-long physical problems including lack of sexual function, infertility and medical dependency.
From the BMJ:
'Safeguarding adolescents from premature, permanent medicalisation':
by Susan Bewley, Professor Emeritus Obstetrics & Women's Health,
Margaret McCartney, Lucy Griffin and Richard Byng
of King's College London.
Michel Polnareff:
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