TRANS CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE: reports about a child and an adolescent with gender variability

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.558342313018

• Palavras-chave: Gender Dysphoria; Gender Identity; Transgender Person; human sexuality

• Keywords: Gender Dysphoria; Gender Identity; Transgender Person; human sexuality

• Abstract:

  Introduction:Transgender subjects have nonconformity between biological/genital sex and self-classified gender. It is a variation of human sexuality that can be expressed since childhood and requires multidisciplinary care. Method: Documentary/longitudinal study, with data obtained from notes/information on clinical and psychotherapeutic follow-up between 2016-2022. Ethical research standards were followed. Results/comments: Transgender characteristics were perceived early at home, at school, in clinical consultations and psychotherapy. Individual follow-up was started, according to age, with a multidisciplinary team. The trans girl showed gender fluidity, a common fact in childhood, reinforced by the ban on expressing herself at school, using toys and clothing according to identification. The trans teenager adopted male hair and clothing, changed his name. At puberty, in Tanner's M2 stage, at age 12, he started pubertal block. At the age of 16, he started masculinizing hormones, according to current protocols. Both had dysphoria due to the unwanted body, suffered violence at school and by professionals, before receiving adequate care. Currently, they remain with a multidisciplinary team and the mothers, in a support group for transgender people. Conclusion: Health professionals must be empathetic and skilled in recognizing and managing protocols for transgender children and adolescents. Public policies must guarantee specific conduct. This theme must be included in undergraduate and graduate courses in Health and Humanities. People must be guaranteed human rights,