UMCG will offer hormone treatment to children with gender dysphoria

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From April, children who feel like they are in the wrong body can go to the Beatrix Children’s Hospital of the UMCG for hormone treatment. The Groningen hospital reported this on Tuesday.

The UMCG expects to be able to treat around fifty children with gender dysphoria per year with puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones. The puberty blockers ensure that the body does not develop further into the female or male gender. According to the UMCG, this gives the children time to explore which gender treatment is desired. The children can also receive cross-sex hormones, or hormones of the desired gender.

Children have long been able to receive hormone treatment at the UMCs in Amsterdam and Nijmegen. The waiting lists are long everywhere and, according to the Groningen hospital, this will remain that way. “Yet it is good that there is now a center in the Northern Netherlands where children and young people with gender dysphoria can go for hormonal treatment. It is important that children and young people have the opportunity to receive their treatment in their own region,” it said. UMCG.