[Jessica.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

um because you have hit the nail on the head with the word "child". People are being denied life saving drugs because of the NHS trying to please everyone and not having the money in some crucial areas because of it.

I don't know anything about the NHS.

Lets just say there is a 9 year old child, mentally the child identifies as a boy and is externally in a female body. This child knows that once he enters puberty things are going to happen to his body that he feels should never happen to him. What if he began menstruating and couldn't handle it, what if he even became suicidal? Puberty is beginning earlier as time goes by. Wouldn't it be better for that child to have the choice to delay these things that would happen to his body while he is going through therapy and is maturing. If he decides at 15 that he's better off living as a woman he's able to do that, but if he knows that he is truly not mentally female, he has the choice to go through male puberty with the aid of testosterone. It's as simple as that.