Age Limit On Transgender Treatment Could Endanger Young Patients, Says Lecturer

by JAMES GARDINER, The New Zealand Herald
5/5/2004

Young people refused hormone treatment on the grounds they are too young could be placed at severe risk of harming themselves or suicide, according to a Massey University health sciences lecturer.

Dr Suzanne Phibbs was commenting on a report this week that a Hutt Valley boy was given hormone treatment for four years from the age of 14 to become a girl and now plans to undergo surgery.

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