The Hot Questions of Prepubertal Gender Dysphoria in Girls

Abstract

Gender dysphoria is certainly a complex and challenging issue first for the patient, a human being that bears a tremendous need and drive to find out and determine once for all who she/ he really is. It is challenging for the family, often unaware of the intense suffering of the child and as well of the intrinsically complex tasks of gender reassignment pathways. It is difficult for the health-care providers who are required to have and offer a well-balanced human touch and professional skill in an extremely complex area. The goal is to get quality years of personal and physical growth to optimize a more matured and "digested" choice whatever it would be: either remaining in the gender of birth with appropriate, more satisfying inner adjustments or move to a final male gender identity with real expectations and a higher probability of having them fulfilled. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)