Myth 8: They’re giving 10-year-old children hormones! No. Doctors are prescribing drugs which block the onset of puberty in order to give the child’s brain time to mature, and to see how their gender identity solidifies. Generally these drugs are not prescribed until they are 12 or 13.218 One of the most commonly used drugs to block puberty in transgender children is leuprolide, and has been used on children who aren’t transgender to prevent precocious (early onset) puberty.219 It has been approved for this purpose by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since 1993.
