Angela Rölver

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  Desisting from gender dysphoria after 1.5 years of puberty suppression
  Author(s): Angela Rölver*, Manuel Föcker and Georg Romer
  
  Background: Over the last decade medical care for transgender youth has improved. Gonadotropin-Releasing-Hormone-Analogues (GnRHa) stop and delay puberty and can relieve the distress of Gender Dysphoria (GD). Only a few adolescents treated with GnRHa desist from GD, thus systematic and in-depth investigations are missing. Case Presentation: A case of peri pubertal onset gender dysphoria (12.4 years) is presented. It illustrates the desistance from GD after a 15-month-treatment with GnRHa. The blocking of puberty lead to a reduction of GD, the process of gender identity development still continued, leading to a non-binary outcome. Conclusion: This case report illustrates that after treatment with puberty blockers desistance from gender dysphoria can occur. Further, GnRHa do not “the ongoing process of gender i.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37532/puljcap.2022.6(4)-30-34

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