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A small but growing number of teens and even younger children who think they were born the wrong sex are getting support from parents and from doctors who give them sex-changing treatments, according to reports in the medical journal Pediatrics.
It's an issue that raises ethical questions, and some experts urge caution in treating children with puberty-blocking drugs and hormones...Offering sex-changing treatment to kids younger than 18 raises ethical concerns, and their parents' motives need to be closely examined, said Dr. Margaret Moon, a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics' bioethics committee....Some kids may get a psychiatric diagnosis when they are just hugely uncomfortable with narrowly defined gender roles.. Transgender children getting more drug hormone treatments - Health - CBC News
Or experts could just take a basic course in reading body language... (from the OP)