A examine printed Monday in JAMA Pediatrics finds that transgender youngsters who’ve pursued medical interventions like puberty blockers and hormones are extremely happy with their care.
“Remorse was very uncommon,” says lead writer Kristina Olson, a psychology professor at Princeton College.
It’s the most recent analysis from the TransYouth Mission, which Olson began in 2013, when transgender youth was a reasonably obscure analysis space, removed from the political limelight.
Again then, “our staff was involved in recruiting a bunch of children who have been socially transitioning,” she explains, which means they began utilizing new pronouns and names and garments in childhood, between age 3 and 12. They discovered 300 households, and have adopted them since, to see “what their life would appear like as they moved into adolescence and maturity.”
