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How Young Is Too Young for Sterilization?
A rally for transgender kids in St. Paul, Minnesota, in March 2022. (Michael Siluk via Getty Images)
An influential transgender advocacy group releases new recommendations based on politics—not science.
By Lisa Selin Davis
09.28.22
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What do you do if you are the parent of a child who believes they were born in the wrong body? What if your kid doesn’t fit the stereotypical behavior of their sex—your daughter is a tomboy, your son is effeminate—and a teacher or school counselor suggests they might be transgender? What if your teenager, uncomfortable with their changing body at pubert…

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Lisa Selin Davis
Author of novels BELLY and LOST STARS, and nonfiction books TOMBOY and HOUSEWIFE. At work on a book about the youth gender culture war. Co-host, Informed Dissent pod.
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