PSY 399 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Gender Dysphoria, Bone Density, Internal Validity
16 May 2018
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Class 14: May 16
Trans
Intervention
Processes and Stages of Transition
● Social Transition: allowing a child to have a name, hairstyle,
clothing and pronoun associate with their affirmed gender
○ First step of gender expression
● Puberty Blockers: temporarily suppress puberty by using
gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogs
○ Biological strategy to slow down puberty
● Hormone Therapy (cross-sex hormone therapy): form of hormone
replacement therapy (HRT)
○ In which sex hormones are administered for purpose of
aligning with sexual characteristics of gender identity
■ Feminizing: estrogen and antiandrogens
■ Masculinizing: androgens
● Gender confirmation surgery: physical changing genitalia
○ Irreversible transition
Social Change
● Benefits
○ Improved mental health
○ Family support
○ Social health
○ Physical health
● Concerns
○ Differentiate between gender nonconforming kids and
binary transgender kids
○ Which causes more harm: not allowing transition or
allowing transition
Puberty Blockers
● Benefits
○ Time: to make next decision
○ Mental Health: less distress
○ Physical health: avoids development of secondary sex
characteristics
● Concerns
○ Timing: when to start
○ Social Health: can prevent puberty all together
○ Physical Health: bone density issues
○ Expensive: not covered by insurance
Hormone Therapy
● Benefits
○ Mental Health: deduce gender dysphoria
○ Social Health: increased ability to be socially accepted
○ Physical health: develop characteristics of youth’s identified
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Document Summary
Social transition: allowing a child to have a name, hairstyle, clothing and pronoun associate with their affirmed gender. Puberty blockers: temporarily suppress puberty by using gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogs. Hormone therapy (cross-sex hormone therapy): form of hormone replacement therapy (hrt) In which sex hormones are administered for purpose of aligning with sexual characteristics of gender identity. Differentiate between gender nonconforming kids and binary transgender kids. Which causes more harm: not allowing transition or allowing transition. Physical health: avoids development of secondary sex characteristics. Social health: can prevent puberty all together. Social health: increased ability to be socially accepted. Physical health: develop characteristics of youth"s identified body. Medical risks: higher risk of blood clots, reduction or elimination of fertility. Some children are not binary mtf or ftm binary. Whether they are stating self- identifying facts. I am a girl vs. i wish i were a girl . Insistent, persistent, and consistent that they have been assigned the wrong gender.
