He
was one of the main issues addressed by the program that old. Is a
child of five children, old enough to make decisions that will affect
the rest of their lives? Read a number of comments on the Guardian
article about the Inner
Trading Circle program it is clear that this is still a big
problem for the people, in spite of what is also clear is that most
people simply do not understand how young people are treated and,
worse than that, most of the commentators referring to the less
detailed Press the article has not been seen in the fact the program
itself.
The
first important point to understand is that children are not subject
transgender hormonal or surgical treatment until they reach the age
of puberty. As we have seen in the program, there are different
degrees of "gender identity disorder"
which
is the basic condition where a person experiences constant discomfort
or distress because of the feeling that there is a mismatch between
biological sex and gender identity. We still do not know exactly what
causes this - but there is increasing evidence that is the result of
hormonal imbalances during fetal development.
