Hormonal Interventions for Minors with Gender Dysphoria Cause Significant Harm

This resource provides an overview of the harms associated with the use of cross-sex hormones for minors with gender dysphoria.

Administering opposite sex hormones to bodies designed for same-sex hormones causes harm. It is rational and clinically appropriate to prescribe testosterone to men who have verifiable medical conditions such as impaired testicular function, which result in low testosterone. Doing so is consistent with biological reality. Similarly, it is rational and clinically appropriate to prescribe estrogen to women who have a verifiable medical disorder such as premature ovarian insufficiency causing an earlier than-normal decrease in estrogen levels. However, prescribing opposite sex hormones, i.e., estrogen to boys or men, and testosterone to girls or women, is contrary to normal biology.

Continue reading Do No Harm’s full resource on the harms of hormonal interventions for minors with gender dysphoria: