disagree with the comment from the person who claims that there is no need of medical therapy for transgender persons...tell that to my transgender daughter who would rather die than carry a penis around between her legs!

a person who is transgender is the only one who can make the determination about whether or not the surgeries and interventions that would help them become the gender with which they identify are necessary.

as the mother of a child who is transgender, even i don't believe i have the right to make that call! only she can! and she will definitely live a longer and more healthy life, physically, emotionally and mentally because of therapy and treatments such as the ones that doctor spack has brought forward to the realm of pediatric endocrinology.

it isn't as simple as my daughter is 'unusual'....she is in torment, not because of society...but because her biological body is wrong for her.