I know this isn't about gay marriage, LOL, but I didn't want to invade another topic with this one.



12-Year Old Begins Sex Change Therapy
Posted: January 29, 2007 - 3:00 pm ET

(Vienna) A twelve year old German is believed to be the youngest person in the world to start a sex-change procedure.

Born biologically male and named Tim by her parents, the child from birth rejected male identifiers, adopted the name Kim, and at the age of 12 was diagnosed officially as transsexual.

Following physical and psychological examinations doctors determined it would be in Kim's best interests to immediately begin gender reassignment.

Her birth records have been changed to reflect her correct sex and name and doctors started administering hormone treatments.

That was two years ago, although media reports in Europe are just reporting her story.

In an interview with the the German news magazines Stern and Der Spiegel, Kim's father, identified only as Lutz P said that while they were at first concerned the grew to see their child as a girl.

"We saw Kim as a girl, but not as a problem. Our life was surprisingly normal," he said.

But he said that when Kim began to show the first signs of puberty she became depressed.

"At that stage we realized that she was terrified of growing facial hair and her voice breaking."

While some doctors wanted to wait until she was older before starting sex reassignment others said it should commence immediately because growing up to be a man could permanently damage her emotionally.

"Kim is a mentally well-developed child who appears happy and balanced," Dr Bern Meyenburg who studies transsexuality in teens at Frankfurt University, wrote in his diagnosis.

"There is no doubt of the determined wish, that was already detectable since early childhood. It would have been very wrong to let Kim grow up to be a man. It is rare to have such a clear-cut case."

Obviously too young. It should be eighteen at least.

How many of us have enough experience with transsexual diagnoses to intelligently debate this? Seems like the parties involved - the parents, child and physicians - are the ones to make this call, not the general public.

BTW, I would have put it under Health Care, since it discusses a diagnosis and treatment.

How about moving this thread to the "Sick Stupid Morons Playing God" sub-forum?

Just because they choose to change doesn't mean you have to lose your distinguished gentleman and the beanbag he sits on.

How 'bout you make sense when your type something?

of course he should have the right to do it, but 12 is too young,he or his family should wait until he is 18, or 21, goD has nothing to do with this, dont use medicines to cure cancer you are playing goD,, please give me a break!!!!! people with those mentalities, fell off their cribs when they were babies and now suffer the consequences. LOL

LOL yeah that was kind of a weird way of saying it.