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The Relationship Between Being Gender Nonconforming and Growing Up Gay

There is a strong link between being gender nonconforming and growing up gay. Most kids who saw the early gender doctors were same sex attracted when they passed puberty. Susie found at the time there was no transition pathway on the NHS. She reached out to American doctors and got puberty blockers from a chap called Norman Spack in Boston. And then at age 13 or 14, Jackie was put on estrogen,. They flew to Thailand and got Jackie what's called gender reassignment surgery, meaning genital surgery on his 16th birthday. That's all about 13, 14 years ago, I think, maybe a little less. But just numbers wise, there's a strong correlation. Like 20 or 25

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