I've had my menstrual cycle for about 4 years now and I'm wondering if puberty blockers could stop it? I want the breast growth and periods to be stopped. I don't want it. Can puberty blockers even work on me now that I've had this curse for a while? Would it be hormone blockers instead? What's even the difference..?
Where are some places beside Planned Parenthood that I could get puberty blockers? My parents don't like Planned Parenthood, so if they did consider letting me take puberty blockers I know it wouldn't be from them.
Any information (articles, videos, etc.) would be nice. I just know I don't want my body to be permanently damaged by stupid estrogen any more than it already has.
Puberty blockers are presented as a “let’s just hold off puberty” solution, meant to delay the development of the most prominent features of a child’s biological sex while the child wrestles with his or her gender identity. But Hruz, Mayer, and McHugh argue it remains unknown if regular sex-typical puberty will resume following suppression. If you start blockers pre- or very early in puberty, blockers keep your body in the pre-pubertal state (regular growth will occur, but not the sexual maturation puberty brings about). If you start blockers anytime after that, you're basically throwing your body into menopause.
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Children typically have a stable idea of their own gender identity by an age that varies between two and four years. By this time, most children identify as the gender that matches their biological sex: children with male bodies regard themselves as boys, children with female bodies regard themselves as girls. However, some children identify as other genders than the one they’re assigned at birth.
When this happens in early childhood it’s a social problem: the child wants to use different bathrooms, clothing and social institutions than those mandated by its biological sex. That’s now becoming more possible as awareness of transgender issues spreads. But it’s made easier by the fact that there are few obvious physical differences between a 7-year-old male body and a 7-year-old female body. Come puberty, with its broad hips and shoulders, facial hair, menstruation, breaking voices, and breasts, trans children can have their first major encounters with truly crushing gender dysphoria — much as a cisgender person would feel if they were slowly turning into the opposite gender in their teens.