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‘The Protocol’: The Story Behind Medical Care for Transgender Kids
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Overview
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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