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What are the factors to consider when young transgender people want to medically transition?

These questions are posed in a climate of uproar about bathrooms and locker rooms and investigations into parents who provide medical care to their trans kids.

There’s a lot of misinformation out there about exactly what medical care is for trans kids, so we consider transgender youth who want to start medical transition at a relatively early age.

Of course, parents often worry that their children may be too young to know what they really want and that medical transition may include surgery and other medical treatments that can be difficult or impossible to undo.

To answer some of these questions, OutCaster Lauren talks with Dr. John Steever, a physician, and Dr. Matthew Oransky, a psychologist. Both doctors work at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and help young transgender people with transitioning.

Photo / Ted Eytan / Capital TransPride Washington / flickr / photo is cropped