Parents Consider Treatment to Delay Sons Puberty

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by Alix Spiegel

New Therapy Would Buy Time to Resolve Gender Crisis

All Things Considered – Note: To protect the identities of this family, NPR has used only first names.

Robert and Danielle instituted an “only-in-the-house” rule when their son Armand was around 5, a modest effort to save him from himself.

By that point, Robert and Danielle were exhausted. They had tried for years to steer Armand away from female clothing, fearing their young son would become the object of neighborhood ridicule. But nothing they said or did seemed to make any difference. There was no dissuading him, and so the only-in-the-house rule seemed like reasonable compromise.