{"id":1521,"date":"2012-02-19T10:14:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T18:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2018-03-05T17:26:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T01:26:30","slug":"increasing-number-of-children-being-prepared-for-sex-change-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=1521","title":{"rendered":"Transgender kids get puberty-blocking drugs, sex-changing hormones; MDs say numbers are rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post<\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO &#8211; A small but growing number of teens and even younger children who think they were born the wrong sex are getting support from parents and from doctors who give them sex-changing treatments, according to reports in the medical journal Pediatrics.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an issue that raises ethical questions, and some experts urge caution in treating children with puberty-blocking drugs and hormones.<\/p>\n<p>An 8-year-old second-grader in Los Angeles is a typical patient. Born a girl, the child announced at 18 months, &#8220;I a boy&#8221; and has stuck with that belief. The family was shocked but now refers to the child as a boy and is watching for the first signs of puberty to begin treatment, his mother told The Associated Press. . . [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/transgender-kids-get-puberty-blocking-drugs-sex-changing-hormones-mds-say-numbers-are-rising\/2012\/02\/19\/gIQAfcsuNR_story.html?tid=pm_national_pop\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post Associated Press CHICAGO &#8211; A small but growing number of teens and even younger children who think they were born the wrong sex are getting support from parents and from doctors who give them sex-changing treatments, according to reports in the medical journal Pediatrics. It&#8217;s an issue that raises ethical questions, and some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=1521\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Transgender kids get puberty-blocking drugs, sex-changing hormones; MDs say numbers are rising&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,9,28],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-reconfiguration","category-news","category-usa"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Transgender kids get puberty-blocking drugs, sex-changing hormones; MDs say numbers are rising - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=1521\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Transgender kids get puberty-blocking drugs, sex-changing hormones; MDs say numbers are rising - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Washington Post Associated Press CHICAGO &#8211; A small but growing number of teens and even younger children who think they were born the wrong sex are getting support from parents and from doctors who give them sex-changing treatments, according to reports in the medical journal Pediatrics. 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