SFWeekly.com – By Lauren Smiley
A new treatment for transgender kids puts puberty on hold so that they won’t develop into their biological sex
The breast bud popped up about six months ago, and Marty knew something had to be done. It was the slightest of puckers, just on one side, so small you wouldn’t even notice it through a T-shirt. Still, boys don’t get breasts, and this had the unsettling potential to blow his cover big-time.
That’s because Marty was born, by conventional measures of modern science, a girl. Marty has two X sex chromosomes, like most females, and the hardware concurs. Yet ever since Marty’s parents flew back from China in 1998 with their 11-month-old adopted baby, their daughter seemed to be programmed male. She refused dresses by age two and half and mastered peeing while standing by three. She would identify herself as a girl only when grilled.