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>His mother took him to doctors, but there was no word for the way Jay felt. He struggled to explain that he felt sick because he didn't feel like himself.
>I feel like I am walking on glass , he wanted to say. But the words came out, "My stomach hurts."
>The doctor gave him omeprazole for heartburn and Zofran for nausea. Jay trawled the internet for a better diagnosis. Surfing on a years-old iPod, he landed on YouTube, where every video was a current that pulled him toward another. Eventually the river carried him to a four-minute video called "BOYS CAN HAVE A VAG." A 20-something woman with long hair and perfect eyebrows laid out her argument.
>Gender, she said, is like a suitcase. When you're born, doctors look between your legs and assign you one. Boy luggage contains sports, trucks and action figures. It comes with short hair and abs, toughness and courage. The girl suitcase has soft curves and graceful movements, dresses and jewelry, patience and nurturing.
>But what if all those things felt wrong? she asked. "You might start to feel broken, like there was no room for who you were in that stifling suitcase."
>That's it .
http://www.oregonlive.com/transgender-health/2017/07/about_a_boy_jays_life_as_a_tra.html
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>THE T-CLINIC
>If Jay had lived anywhere else, his journey might have stalled right there.
>In the fall of 2014, most doctors didn't know how to help him. His pediatrician offered him birth control to stop his period. But Jay didn't want girl hormones.
>Fortunately, Jay lived half an hour from one of the few doctors in America who knew what to do. Dr. Karin Selva was a pediatric endocrinologist in Portland. When she read Jay's chart, she recognized all the signs.
>Depression. Anxiety. Frequent trips to the emergency room with stomach complaints.
>Then Selva opened the door to her exam room and saw a boy with a fresh haircut and big grin. She was his only hope.
>Selva knew how to treat hormone imbalances, but in the three years since a transgender patient first approached her, she'd had to learn on the fly. She'd hunted for research and mentors. Only one study, conducted in the Netherlands, examined how hormone treatments affected children as they became adults. Only one U.S. clinic, Boston Children's Hospital, specialized in transgender adolescent care.
>By the time Jay arrived, Selva had treated 48 transgender patients. They made up less than 5 percent of her work, but that was enough to make her a national expert.
>She traveled the country training other endocrinologists, and she convinced Randall Children's Hospital officials to set aside one day every other month for the program she called the T-Clinic. The appointments were always full.
>Families came from six hours away, bringing children as young as 8. Selva's research suggested there might be thousands of transgender adolescents just in the metropolitan area. A Portland Public Schools survey found that 3 percent of middle and high school students identify as transgender. Leaders at a local advocacy group told Selva they were working with 450 transgender kids, nearly two-thirds of whom were under 12.
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holy fuck someone gas these fags thousands in her area wtf?? You probaly are a person who supports socialist healthcare for optional surgery for another burden on society people have been fine with being their genders for centuries until you fags decided for them that they're special and now impressionable children believe that because they don't know any better you're ruining their lives
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