Transgender children and adolescents use puberty blockers to help prevent the masculinising or feminising physical changes that occur during puberty.
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Social rewards, emotions and the chance to experience something new all have a strong bearing on children’s decisions in the moment — possibly more than whether it is right or wrong.
Now a teenager, Riley is wrestling with four new emotions: anxiety, envy, ennui and embarrassment. Here’s how they might show up for your kids.
This advice can help you to engage your teens in open, honest and helpful dialogues about sex and sexuality.
On both sides of the transgender care debate, what is presented as ‘fact’ distorts real complexities of gender-affirming health care, leaving many in the dark about what is really at stake.
Changes around puberty and pregnancy can affect the function of genes influencing hair shape. And chemotherapy can cause hair to regrow in a different shape for the first few cycles of hair regrowth.
An expert on adolescent sexuality weighs in on how technology has changed the amount and type of pornography that teens can consume – and what that means when it happens at school.
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome is common among women and girls in Nigeria but not many know its impact on their lives and reproductive health.
Research shows that many girls are in elementary school when they have their first period. But often they have not received adequate health education.
The adolescent brain is particularly vulnerable to experience. Puberty is is the time brain networks are hardwired around milestone events. We should help teenagers make meaning of the pandemic.
The building blocks towards reducing stigma go far beyond providing period products
So-called “puberty blockers” work by temporarily suppressing the action of a specific hormone in the body.
The middle years (between 8 and 14 years old) are a foundational period for development. But these years don’t receive enough support from the education system.
Many boys stop singing at adolescence – but with the right support, they can continue to sing through their voice change and emerge as lifetime singers.
Puberty can make us behave differently.
The timing of puberty can influence a child’s bone strength throughout adolescence and into early adulthood.
Close to 4 million teenage girls are subjected to breast ironing worldwide. This harmful cultural practice, which is most prevalent in West and Central Africa, needs to stop.
What we thought we knew about male development since the 1950s has now been turned on its head.
The Conversation has access to top academic experts, and we want them to use their knowledge to answer questions from teenagers.
The signs might be there. But parents and clinicians will still wonder if there’s some foolproof way to determine whether their children are actually trans. There isn’t one – and that’s okay.
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Senior research fellow, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Research Associate, Institute of Infection Immunity and Inflammation , University of Glasgow
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Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
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Professor of Gender and Science Studies, Lancaster University
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Clinical Assistant Professor College of Nursing and Health Innovation, University of Texas at Arlington
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
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Associate Professor in Faith and Peaceful Relations at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University
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PhD Candidate, University of Bath
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NHMRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Bath
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Visiting Fellow at the School of Education & Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia
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Lecturer in the School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle
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Group Leader of the Development Programme at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge
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Professor and NHMRC Senior Research Fellow in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Anatomy & Developmental Biology, Monash University
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Professor of Paediatrics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
