Other girls her age have breasts, hair under their arms, struggle to manage their periods, say things that indicate sexual awakening—all things she knows little about. She is likely to feel more alienated from womanhood—not less—after she’s been cut from the team, endocrinologically speaking. No surprise, then, that in a clinical trial 100 percent of children put on puberty blockers proceeded to cross-sex hormones.6 That is a stunning statistic, especially considering that when no intervention is made, roughly 70 percent of children will outgrow gender dysphoria on their own.7 Far from being
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