Good afternoon! I was looking into articles on hormone blockers and found this one from 2017. I’d like to talk a little bit about what it shows.
#puberty #trans #biology

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… The story behind this article is that of a healthy child, born male, but demonstrating the desire to be a girl at age 3.

Her parents placed her in therapy, with the hopes of resolving dysphoria, until age 7. During that time she tried to “behave as a boy”.

I keep seeing this article held up as "proof" that biological sex is a spectrum. I'm not here to cast aspersions on Scientific American, which is an excellent pop science magazine & has been around since the 1840s. However, this article needs an answer:

blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/stop-us… First of all, we should look at the source. Even in peer reviewed, scientific journals, there is often an editorial or opinion column.

"Voices" in SA is a guest blog page. That doesn't mean it's crap. It just means that it's not based on anything reviewed by others.