pubertal
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In clinical spaces, minors can get prescriptions for puberty blockers, which pause pubertal development, or hormone treatments, like testosterone or estrogen, which can be administered by injection, pill or patch.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 17, 2023
"So we thought that disturbance of that normal pubertal hormonal activity could potentially shift the trajectory of some of those developmental processes."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2023
There can also be a lot of stress associated with early menstruation or other pubertal changes.
From Slate ● Nov. 17, 2022
Those criticizing the paper included Stanford School of Medicine child psychiatry fellow Jack Turban, whose 2020 paper found that transgender adolescents undergoing pubertal suppression “had lower odds of lifetime suicidal ideation.”
From Washington Times ● Jun. 14, 2022
But the changes are not only physical; the changes that take place in the girl's psychic sphere during the pubertal years are also highly important.
From Woman Her Sex and Love Life by William J. Robinson
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