‘My 15-year-old transgender son is going through menopause’
by Michael Cook, MercatorNet:
Can a teenager realise that she is trashing her future?
“My 15-year-old transgender son is going through menopause — and I’m so proud of him.” As headlines go, this is gob-smacking. So proud that her child will be spayed? So proud that her daughter’s fertility will be destroyed? So proud that her daughter is going to be a client of the pharmaceutical industry for the rest of her life?
The story comes from a recent issue of Essential Kids, a site linked to the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, which describes itself as “part of Australia’s largest parenting community, connecting real mums and dads all over the country”.
Carolyn Tate explains that her daughter has clearly identified as a boy at least since she was 12 years old. They have been going to “our local gender clinic.
Treatment involves taking a puberty blocker called Lucrin (or Lupron) every three months to stop normal female puberty. Carolyn says that side-effects are minimal – just “a short and sharp menopause” and “potential bone brittleness from a loss of calcium”.
Not long ago, her daughter began to have nausea, sweats and hot flushes. It wasn’t coronavirus –menopause had arrived 40 years early.
When she turns 16 she can legally start taking testosterone to give her a deeper voice and a beard. “We can’t wait,” says Carolyn.
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