Medical care for transgender youth emerged from Dutch innovation, inspiring global debate as politics, identity, and medicine intertwine.
Takeaways
•Peggy Cohen-Kettnis and Dutch clinicians pioneered medical interventions for transgender youth, developing the first protocols by lowering age barriers with puberty blockers and hormones.
•FG, the first adolescent patient given puberty blockers, catalyzed critical research and challenged assumptions about the needs of distressed youth whose gender didn’t match their bodies.
•Today’s U.S. debate entangles childhood gender dysphoria treatment with heated politics, Supreme Court rulings, and starkly polarized risks, leaving trans youth’s well-being at the center of political clashes.
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