Lives in a chiaroscuro. Should we suspend the puberty of children with gender identity disorder?

erratum 34/8/580

The beginning of Section 2 should be read as the paragraph at the bottom. An older version was published which is below.

Older version
"GID is a severe medical condition, associated with strong disgust for the body and profound uncertainty over the sense of the self. Invariably, growing in a chiaroscuro causes great distress. Once they start puberty, trans-boys may develop female secondary sex characteristics, such as breasts, may even start to menstruate and remain shorter in stature than average, whereas trans-girls may grow beards and prominent Adam?s apples, experience erections and became taller than average".

New version
"Some people with GID can also have concurrent genetic or chromosomal conditions, such as Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, Turner's Syndrome or Klienfelter's Syndrome. In these cases, physical alterations such as those described in Section 2 can be found. However, GID is a medical category in itself, and although in some cases people with these other conditions also have GID, most of the times GID is not associated with these illnesses, and the primary sign of the disorder is the profound discomfort with growing in the biological sex."