Abstract
The author, an endocrinologist and co-founder of Gender Management Services at Children's Hospital, discusses his experience treating disorders of sexual development in adolescents and young adult transgender individuals. He began treating transgender young adults in 1985. He discusses his early career development as well as his use of a protocol developed in Holland for treating trans-youth.
The author co-founded the Gender Management Service at Children's Hospital Boston for patients with disorders of sex development and transgenderism. He has served on the International Task Force for Patients with Disorders of Sex Development and the recent Endocrine Society Task Force that wrote the recently approved Clinical Guidelines for Endocrine Management of Tramssexual Persons.