Endocrinologist

Because of him, we thought maybe we should do this more often, giving the blocking hormones.

She felt the blockers would give kids time to think.

You cannot just start and do whatever we want, particularly in the beginning, when you have no idea whether what you're doing is okay.

Well, I think as a very careful... way to figure out who should have what kind of treatment to feel like they want to feel.

Because we didn't want to have all kinds of disasters right from the beginning. But in much of these decisions, knowing the kids was very helpful. You just see what's happening. I mean, look at FG. If you see how well they're doing, you know, it could not be completely wrong. It's just that exactly what you have to do with what kid, that's the challenge.

This is for adults. For adults. Yeah. Yeah. Because children were no way that anyone would do something with children.

So when people heard that I knew something about transgender people, I got referrals for adults mainly. But occasionally there was also an older adolescent among them.

These kids already had a lot of mental health care. They're functioning quite well.

Right. And I thought, that is a bit silly. For years and years, they very well know what they want. But because they don't have the right age, they have to wait.

Couldn't we do something about that age limit? And he said, okay, we can start it a little bit earlier and

The first 14 or 15-year-olds, and then an occasional 12-year-old.