Puberty Blockers Essay

These transitioning children in Growing up Trans faces many challenges trying to purse the opposite gender. Like Niema, now Daniel that wants to be more like a boy, has a problem with his gender. Daniel’s problem with puberty is developing breast, he would rather be seen as a female. There are medicine that help children like Daniel to not go through puberty. It is called puberty blockers. It helps to stop puberty and make them comfortable with themselves. It must be hard for young children to discovered themselves, but not be able to actually be themselves, because they were born in another body.
There is also the uncertainty with the medicine. Since there isn’t a lot of research in this field, where children taking medicine to stop puberty and hormones to permanently become another gender. For many parents not knowing if the puberty blockers will affect their child is a concern for them. Puberty blockers not only have side effects, it also expensive, costing $15,000 to $20,000 a year. Since most doctors are aware that this medicine can be expensive for most parents. They …show more content…
The possible long term effects are bone density and neurologic development. I understand that there is a need for more research for trans-children, but it seem like they are the guinea pigs to the experiment research. Most of them believed that becoming another gender is the only way they can be happy with their bodies. It difficult for them to dress in the gender they desire because people will question their identity. Alex, who is a girl, but wants to be a boy. She hates being a female. The female’s hormones and the menstrual cycle are the things that made her and her parents consider puberty blockers. Unlike Alex that despise being a female, Ariel loves being a women. Even with hormones, she is not happy with the fact that she will never be able to have a baby with labor pains or have real