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Transgender children and young people: how the evidence can point the way forward
The development of gender identity in children from around the age of 3 years is described. Wishes for transgender identity are distinguished from gender-atypical behaviour. Reasons for the recent rise in transgender referrals in the early teen years are discussed. The now widely used protocol devel...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10063975/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35177147 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2022.3 |
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description | The development of gender identity in children from around the age of 3 years is described. Wishes for transgender identity are distinguished from gender-atypical behaviour. Reasons for the recent rise in transgender referrals in the early teen years are discussed. The now widely used protocol developed by the Amsterdam group for assessing transgender children and young people and, where appropriate, offering them puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and sex reassignment surgery is described. Evidence for the effectiveness of this approach is considered. The competence of young people to give consent to these procedures is discussed. Finally, proposals are made for topics urgently requiring further research. |
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spelling | pubmed-100639752023-04-01 Transgender children and young people: how the evidence can point the way forward Graham, Philip BJPsych Bull Special Article The development of gender identity in children from around the age of 3 years is described. Wishes for transgender identity are distinguished from gender-atypical behaviour. Reasons for the recent rise in transgender referrals in the early teen years are discussed. The now widely used protocol developed by the Amsterdam group for assessing transgender children and young people and, where appropriate, offering them puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and sex reassignment surgery is described. Evidence for the effectiveness of this approach is considered. The competence of young people to give consent to these procedures is discussed. Finally, proposals are made for topics urgently requiring further research. Cambridge University Press 2023-04 /pmc/articles/PMC10063975/ /pubmed/35177147 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2022.3 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Special Article Graham, Philip Transgender children and young people: how the evidence can point the way forward |
title | Transgender children and young people: how the evidence can point the way forward |
title_full | Transgender children and young people: how the evidence can point the way forward |
title_fullStr | Transgender children and young people: how the evidence can point the way forward |
title_full_unstemmed | Transgender children and young people: how the evidence can point the way forward |
title_short | Transgender children and young people: how the evidence can point the way forward |
title_sort | transgender children and young people: how the evidence can point the way forward |
topic | Special Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10063975/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35177147 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2022.3 |
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