Sunday, September 20, 2009

Hormone 'blockers' could be offered to under-16s seeking sex change

By Victoria Richards

Sunday, 20 September 2009

Sex-change experts are considering reviews to current UK guidelines that could see treatment with "hormone blockers" extended to under-16s and transgender surgery to under-18s.

The moves, if approved, would be taken as a positive response to campaigning led by Kim Petras, currently the world's youngest transsexual, who at 16 succeeded in lobbying the German government to allow her to undergo a sex change.

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