What is the Purpose of the Initial Psychiatric Evaluation of Minors with Gender Dysphoria

What is it about?

The assumptions and etiological understandings of gender dysphoria among young persons that underlie the degree of comprehensiveness of the initial psychiatric evaluation

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Why is it important?

Because one set of assumptions leads to affirmative hormonal care with all of its promised benefits, risks of harms, and changing sensibilities of patients over time or an intense effort to improve mental health so that whatever the patient ultimately decides to do about gender expression, the person can do it with more mature thinking.

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