Alaskan boy participates in the girls state championship

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(06-09-2016, 11:50 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: So why are we favouring hormone treatments to children when their hormones haven't even settled yet and won't until they hit puberty?   

I am not against hormone treatment post puberty.   It's the pre puberty that seems barbaric and he's mad science.  

That's a valid point. The problem is, there's not a set time when hormones start to have an effect. It can be as earlier as 6 or 7. If we're talking about adjusting hormone levels to meet the "wiring" of a person, it could be years before the observable changes (facial hair, breasts, increased muscle mass, etc). Every case is different.