We don’t let Children choose their gender
But along with parents and medical professionals, we allow them to begin gender reaffirming procedures.
Generally beginning puberty blockers, psychological counciling and later hormone therapy
It almost NEVER involves genital surgery on children
Puberty blockers, hormone therapy, etc. should not be performed on children, especially by parents and medical professionals. For one, both of those adults doing such are setting themselves up for civil suits by the damaged children and potential legal charges for infringing on the rights of the adult that child will become.
Except for the basic physical traits of sex/gender (genitalia) at birth, most of the gender/sex development takes years to complete naturally, isn't complete until early to mid 20s and has enough flux factors to make puberty a mentally challenging period of turmoil.
Children definitely can benefit from counseling during the turmoil of transitioning from child to adult but nature rarely makes mistakes that would "require" gender transition.
Gender/sex selection starts in the womb and studies have shown that the genitalia formation also affects brain formation. There is such a thing as a female brain versus a male brain. If anything, medical intervention could include hormone therapy to reinforce and smooth the transition through puberty to facilitate the gender/sex that started in the womb.
Brain Sex: The Real Difference Between Men and Women
Anne Moir, Ph.D.,
David Jessel
Random House Publishing Group, Aug 1, 1992 -
Psychology - 256 pages
Why can't a woman be more like a man? What is this thing called "feminine intuition"? Why are men better at reading maps, and women at other people's characters? The answers lie in the basic biological differences between the male and female brain, which, say the aut
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" This volume argues that the difference between men and women lies in the basic biological differences between the male and female brain, which the authors contend make it impossible for the sexes to share equal emotional or intellectual qualities. They explain how the embryonic brain is shaped as either male or female at about six weeks, when the male fetus begins producing hormones that organize its brain's neural networks into a male pattern; in their absence, the brain will be female. According to the authors, there are endless variations in degree of maleness, and mishaps can lead to a male brain in a female body and vice versa. This book includes a brain sex test that lets the reader discover just how masculine or feminine his an individual's brain is. "
This volume argues that the difference between men and women lies in the basic biological differences between the male and female brain, which the authors contend make it impossible for the sexes to share equal emotional or intellectual qualities. They explain how the embryonic brain is shaped...
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Basically, Nature's default biology pattern is female, focused on reproduction for specie's survival. "male' is the alteration/mutation of female basic pattern, and hence open to more "mistakes" or failure to complete transition from female to male and this starts in the womb with formation of genitalia and a brain wired to be male. Problems usually manifest in puberty when the hypothalamus, which controls sexual orientation, fails to full change over from basic female to "mutant" male. Proper detection early on and/or enhanced male hormone treatment should overcome the glitches encountered.
