News: Transgender children's clinic opens in Dallas

Sanctuary

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Originally posted by The Dallas Morning News

The Genecis program — GENder Education and Care, Interdisciplinary Support — officially opened its doors last month, even though Lopez and other specialists have been treating young patients for three years. It’s the only pediatric clinic of its type in the Southwest.

“People have this idea that transgender people are just weird and awkward and troubled,” said Lopez, Genecis’s medical director and an assistant professor of pediatrics at UT Southwestern. “That’s because historically people came out as transgendered adults when they’d … spent much of their lives depressed because they were not being themselves.”

But medical advances and increased public awareness of gender dysphoria — consider this week’s announcement of the “I am Cait” docu-drama featuring Caitlyn Jenner, the former Bruce Jenner — suggest there may be a greater chance for social acceptance.

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My city breaking down barriers. When will Houston? When will Austin?

Adonis

Not Texas slaying equal rights like this.

TheDevilsAdvocate

Wouldn't it be better to integrate them into regular children's clinics? To me separating them makes it seems like they're "different".

Sanctuary

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Originally posted by TheDevilsAdvocate

Wouldn't it be better to integrate them into regular children's clinics? To me separating them makes it seems like they're "different".

I understand the sentiment, but it's a clinic specifically meant to deal with certain issues directly related to trans* identity. It's not like they're telling one child with cancer to go one place and one trans child with cancer to go to another.

Artemisia

inb4 "i don't agree they should wait until they are adults

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antoine_

as long as they don't treat them with hormones and other sex changing treatments its fine.

Su-Barbie-A

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Originally posted by antoine_

as long as they don't treat them with hormones and other sex changing treatments its fine.

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The treatment at Children’s works like this: When appropriate, doctors prescribe drugs to delay puberty, usually around the age of 12. About four years later, patients are administered cross-sex hormones that trigger a transition to adulthood in their identified gender.

Sorry, hunty.

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In the Genecis program, Lopez said, the goal is to intervene in early adolescence, before troubling psychological and physical changes are brought on by puberty. For example, it can be devastating for a transgender boy to grow breasts and start having a period. For transgender girls, physical changes such as hand size, height and shoulder width are permanent.

“Puberty blockers take all that away,” Lopez said. “Emotionally and socially, it lets them have a better transition to their identified gender, and it improves their psychological outcome.”

Now where are those users that said blocking puberty was a bad thing?

Mean Trees

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Originally posted by Su-Barbie-A

Sorry, hunty.

EDIT: It gets better

Now where are those users that said blocking puberty was a bad thing?

You know what...

Big Smoke

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1 Transgender children'

SMFH