Over the past decade, there has been an increase in the number of gender variant children and adolescents seeking care at gender clinics and centers around the world. Many of these gender variant youth are seeking care at younger ages for many reasons,
Psychosocial and Psychological Vulnerability in Adolescents
For adolescents with gender dysphoria, it has become common to be offered hormonal treatment to either delay or suppress pubertal development and/or to masculinize or feminize the body. At the same time, it has been our clinical impression that the psychological vulnerability of at least some of these youth has been overlooked.