My gut is like that, except then thinking about how much more surgery you'd need later?

Yeah, it's much easier as an adult to just get the medical intervention to develop the parts you want without also having to undo the puberty your body went through already.

I think I'd let a kid of mine call themselves a male name and dress male (note how I only give birth to XX), but I don't think I'd be down with medical stuff before 16. Shit's too crazy, man.

There's still a lot of weird development and last-minute growing that teens do, isn't there? I'm down with trans* stuff, but I wouldn't want to fuck with a kid's basic growth and whatnot, which I'd be worried that hormones might do.

I wouldn't want to fuck with a kid's basic growth and whatnot, which I'd be worried that hormones might do.

Yeah, that's what I'm leery of. It's an emotional minefield, and an inchoate mess of biology. It might be harder to go back and undo and then do, but it's not like the primary sexual characteristics haven't already developed, and those are the hard ones.

There was an SVU episode about this. Main story was a father was beaten up by his kid's guidance counselor because he wouldn't let her take the puberty-stopping drugs, because he insisted that with more therapy, they'd get her to want to be a boy again. Subplot where the girl in question was involved in a support group for transgender teens who decided to rob a pharmaceutical company and steal all the drugs they and other transgender people needed, because they said it was unfair that they had to pay to be the sex they were supposed to be, and they were trying to start a revolution, or some such teenage thing that sounds really grand but doesn't totally work.

My boss just stopped by and looked at my doodling again. I took the chance to explain it helped me think. He joked about giving me more work, but I hope I got the message across.

Still don't like the liquid pencil. Maybe the other one in the pack at home writes more smoothly.

That's a tough time to know anything about one's identity. I would hope, if it were my kid who I had known all his or her life, I'd be able to gauge how sure they were about their gender identity and weigh that against the medical questions, but who knows how I would actually react and decide.

I am appalled at the school's requiring dresses. That's just ridiculous.

I wonder if it's any easier to go F to M than the other way around. We all start as girls, don't we? And only at a certain point in utero the male chromosome kicks in?

I wonder if it's any easier to go F to M than the other way around.

Surgically it's hard to add peen. I think it's easier to construct a vagina that passes muster.

Surgically it's hard to add peen.

Damn it, I meant that the other way around.

I think it's easier to construct a vagina that passes muster.

Muster for a partner, at least. I'd imagine.