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Balancing medical interventions in transgender adolescents
In the past, guidelines recommended starting gender affirming hormones at 16 for transgender youths, but as some experienced negative effects on bone density due to prolonged puberty blocker use, new guidelines allow for considering hormones as early as 13.5 years on a case-by-case basis to address both bone health and social stress related to delayed puberty compared to peers.