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A young girl at the annual New York City Pride March in New York on June 25, 2023. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times
Catherine Yang
By Catherine Yang
7/12/2023Updated: 7/12/2023
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In January, the results of a long-term study on the effects of minors using cross-sex hormones were made public. The hormones prescribed to the participants were described as “gender-affirming hormones”—with such treatment regimens also referred to in the literature as “gender-affirming care” or “transgender medicine.”

Some 315 people between the ages of 12 and 20 were monitored for a period of two years to examine their “physical and psychosocial outcomes” after the administration of either testosterone or estradiol, a form of estrogen.

Catherine Yang
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Catherine Yang is a reporter for The Epoch Times based in New York.
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