Norman Spack: How I help transgender teens become who they want to be
Норман Спак: Як я допомагаю підліткам-транссексуалам стати тим, ким вони хочуть бути
At Boston's Children Hospital, endocrinologist Norman Spack treats transgender teens to delay the effects of puberty. Full bio
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personal experience with this,
a meaningful conversation
give the blocking hormones,
hormones are reversible,
for females to males genitally,
has fooled gynecologists.
just looked like everybody else,
to every legislator in Maine
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Norman Spack - EndocrinologistAt Boston's Children Hospital, endocrinologist Norman Spack treats transgender teens to delay the effects of puberty.
Why you should listen
Norman Spack is a pediatric endocrinologist at Boston's Children Hospital and the co-founder of the hospital's Gender Management Service clinic. Created in 2007, the clinic remains one of the few in the world that treats minors with hormone replacement therapy.
Spack began working with college-aged transgender patients professionally in 1985, but found that once patients had reached adulthood, it was extremely difficult to treat their sexually mature bodies using hormone therapy. When parents of transgender children began seeking him out through online support groups, Spack started to think about possible treatments for patients in their youth, before puberty has permanently changed their bodies. Since then Spack has spoken widely on pediatric hormone therapy and has campaigned for law reform in several states to protect transgender people against hate crimes and discrimination.
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