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...fifty chance your child will attempt suicide before age 20. Should you opt for an experimental medical treatment that might prevent it? Parents of children whom experts call gender variant are faced with just that question. If a child doesn't identify with his or her biological sex, the onset of puberty, says Laura Amato, a youth-suicide counselor who runs an online transgender support group, can make that child feel like "part of a real-life horror story ... because the wrong parts are changing...
There isn't enough evidence yet to determine the long-term effects of artificially delayed puberty, but the FDA has noted no serious side effects in the nearly 20 years hormone blockers have been used in the U.S. to treat early-onset puberty in the short term. Although some U.S. studies show that interrupting puberty can weaken bone density, preliminary findings by the medical center of the Free University in Amsterdam, which has prescribed hormone blockers for about 80 children since 1987, don't suggest any such problems. The blocker treatment is also easily reversible: puberty begins as soon...
...With the onset of capitalism, Praga's main thoroughfare, Zabkowska, has been partly renovated, and young local artists have moved in, attracted by low rents and an abundance of postindustrial space. Now cool galleries and bars coexist with crumbling historic buildings that harbor Virgin Mary figures in their backyards...
...Although Augustus’ end signified the end of an empire and the onset of the Middle Ages, Harvard’s weekend collapse may ultimately mark not the end of an empire, but the beginning of a flourishing dynasty...
...representative Alexander N. “Zander” Li ’08 said. Li, who chairs the UC’s Finance Committee, added that he believed that the efforts of active Dems to win seats on the Council may have been directly related to the onset of the UC presidential season and the prospect of Sundquist’s candidacy. Yet Brigit M. Helgen ’08, the president of the Harvard Democrats, said she had had no conversations with Petersen or Sundquist about the elections, and added that an endorsement by the Dems...