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Do you need parental consent for hormone replacement therapy?
If a child wishes to begin hormone therapy, medical consent laws and Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence require parental consent.
Is hormone replacement therapy a good idea?
The benefits of hormone therapy may outweigh the risks if you’re healthy and you: Have moderate to severe hot flashes. Systemic estrogen therapy remains the most effective treatment for the relief of troublesome menopausal hot flashes and night sweats. Have other symptoms of menopause.
What age can you start testosterone with parental consent?
Cross-sex hormones — like estrogen and testosterone — used to be given only to adults. But treatment guidelines, established in 2009, now include children – though they do not recommend starting before age 16.
Should you put your child on growth hormones?
“In any scenario where growth hormones become an option, the first action is determining whether the child has a clinical growth hormone deficiency, as opposed to being at the bottom of the growth chart organically,” says Sarah Nielsen, M.D., a pediatrician at Verona Pediatrics in Verona, New Jersey.
Should parents try hormone suppression?
Well-meaning parents who want to alleviate this burden as their children approach puberty (and their bodies seem to comport even less with their gender identity) have been increasingly trying hormone suppression. This will not only mean, though, that sex organs won’t develop in boys and girls in the usual way.
How do hormones affect children’s development?
While parents might see hormones as a way of allowing their children to postpone decisions about actual sex-reassignment surgery — the removal of testicles, the creation of breasts, etc. — the truth is that this therapy may have real and long-term effects on children’s physical and psychological development.
Can drugs treat gender dysphoria in children?
Indeed, the use of these drugs to treat gender dysphoria is entirely “off label,” meaning parents who would never feed their children food that wasn’t tested by the FDA or give them toys that weren’t approved by the Consumer Product Safety Commission are signing their kids up to receive drugs that are purely experimental at this stage.