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ea0021s7.2 | Dilemmas in managing gender identity problems in adolescence | SFEBES2009

Dilemmas in managing gender identity problems in adolescence: a medical overview

Hughes Iuean

The Endocrine Society has published guidelines on the endocrine treatment of transsexual persons (J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2009 94 3132–54). For adolescents with gender identity disorder (GID), the guideline recommends that suppression of pubertal hormones start when girls and boys exhibit physical changes of puberty (confirmed by pubertal levels of estradiol and testosterone, respectively), but no earlier than Tanner stages 2–3. In practice, this...