I found this page kind of interesting:

http://kidshealth.org/parent/medical/se ... cious.html

Precocious Puberty is when a girl younger than 7 or a boy younger than 9 starts to show signs of puberty. It is standard practice in the medical community to stop precocious puberty, because for one thing, it causes changes in the children's bodies that they would rather not have to deal with.

Preventing puberty is also warranted for transsexual children (I wish that this was available when I was a child!).

From:

http://www.hbigda.org/socv6.html

Physical interventions fall into three categories or stages:

1. Fully reversible interventions. These involve the use of LHRH agonists or medroxyprogesterone to suppress estrogen or testosterone production, and consequently to delay the physical changes of puberty.

2. Partially reversible interventions. These include hormonal interventions that masculinize or feminize the body, such as administration of testosterone to biologic females and estrogen to biologic males. Reversal may involve surgical intervention.

3. Irreversible interventions. These are surgical procedures.

Fully Reversible Interventions. Adolescents may be eligible for puberty-delaying hormones as soon as pubertal changes have begun. In order for the adolescent and his or her parents to make an informed decision about pubertal delay, it is recommended that the adolescent experience the onset of puberty in his or her biologic sex, at least to Tanner Stage Two. If for clinical reasons it is thought to be in the patient's interest to intervene earlier, this must be managed with pediatric endocrinological advice and more than one psychiatric opinion.

Two goals justify this intervention: a) to gain time to further explore the gender identity and other developmental issues in psychotherapy; and b) to make passing easier if the adolescent continues to pursue sex and gender change

Warm hugs,

Kelly