... anyone else mildly disturbed by how cute she is? ;s

Well she's been on hormone therapy since she was twelve so it would make sense that her body developed like a girl along with her mind. I'm sure the makeup doesn't hurt :P

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This makes me pretty happy.

My best friend is a transboy, and I was there with him as he struggled to begin his transition.

He's always living in fear of having to face his past, worrying about running into people and having to explain and relive the situation.

This girl hopefully won't have to deal with that crap, and that's pretty fricken awesome.

and yeah, total babe.

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wowwy, I thought SHE was becoming a HE...

damn... I WOULD hit that... X)

Good for her... I am really glad that this is being embraced as it is, instead of shunned with medications and wasted money on shrinks...

She's sixteen, you guys would sound creepy even if she didn't used to be a boy.

Uhh, yeah, that makes it less creepy.

Anyone else think that they should have waited until he was an adult before even starting the hormone treatments? Just to make sure it wasn't a phase? A childhood whim?

Screwing around with someone's biology at that early an age can't be good for them.

I would think it is better to mess with their biology before they are a fully developed adult, giving them time to adjust.

And, who says it's a childhood whim? Maybe she has felt ever since she was very young that she was supposed to be female. I think that if she has the resolve to go through with something as big as this, her mind was made up a long time ago.

I don't. Since she says she always knew she was female, and psychologists concur - and since they began the whole procedure 4 years ago, it sure seems like more than a phase or whim.

Actually, I think she's lucky she was able to do this now. I used to know a guy who finally admitted - in his late 20's - that he knew since the age of about 5 or 6 that he was female, in a male body. He often said he wished he'd admitted it to himself sooner so he could have had a sex-change before, as he put it, his "face was ravaged by male hormones" (he was actually a pretty handsome, and masculine looking, guy). He never did have the surgery, afraid he'd just look like a guy dressed as a woman, and was miserable.

Not correcting a mistake can't be psychologically good for someone, either. If this girl had something wrong with her circulatory system or digestive system, rather than her reproductive system, no one would thing twice about correcting it.

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I strongly feel that they should have waited until he was older before letting him make such a life-altering decision. It's not like getting a tattoo or a piercing. No teenager has the maturity to make calls like this so early in life.

Stupid, stupid parents.

I actually somewhat agree with Hyper.
Though I'm definately incredibly jealous of her, since starting before puberty means she didn't have to go through the hell that is puberty in the wrong body, there's a slight problem with her transitioning at that age...
There simply isn't enough research done to say that it's safe, and that it won't negatively affect her mental or physical development. While obviously, it's never really safe even in the later years (you can die from the hormones and SRS. The process is most certainly not easy on the body), it may have a higher mortality rate at younger ages. Also, the more developed the male genitalia is, the more there is to work with for SRS. The early transition may come at the cost of her not being able to have a sex life in her later years.

While surgery is surgery and there is ALWAYS risk, hormone therapy is not particularly dangerous. It's on par with dying from birth control. It may slightly increase the rates of some cancers, but that's a risk faced by all men and women on hormones.

Top surgery is fairly routine, as breast enhancement and double mastectomies are not at all uncommon.

Bottom surgery, however, is more risky, especially since few surgeons are proficient in it, it is massively, prohibitively expensive, it doesn't really work all that well anyways and patients are more likely to be desperate for the surgery, leading to risk taking to even get the surgery.

Everyone I know that is trans, would have LOVED to start this before the absolute hell they all went though as a teenager. And considering how much more resilient the body is at a young age, she might have significantly shortened her healing time, and possibility for complications.

Unfortunately, that's not completely true. While from further research, it does appear you are correct that there is not a noticeable increase in mortality rates of MtFs on hormones, there are certainly risks involved.
Of course, I don't think any studies have been done on 12 year old recieving the treatments, and I still do believe that, in all but the most extreme cases, the use of hormones in transsexuals below the age or 16 be be avoided until further studies are done.
You are correct that SRS is more risky. It has an acceptable mortality rate, but the blood loss can be fatal, especially because the estrogen reduces blood clotting.
However, you're not correct that it's ineffective. While this IS certainly true for FtMs, hence why many opt out of SRS, the current methods for SRS on MtFs are incredibly effective. The vaginas of post-operative male to female transsexual are often indistinguishable from the real thing, even by professionals, without further probing, and while there is a risk of them losing the ability to recieve sexual stimulation, there is also a good chance that they will be able to fully enjoy sexual intercourse. The only two real issues with SRS for MtFs is the obvious inability for the recipient to reproduce, and inadequate lubrication for sexual intercourse, which can be fixed through the use of lubricants.

And, I won't argue that most transsexuals would love to be able to start the process early. As I said, I'm somewhat jealous, because it's not like I enjoy being stuck in this disgusting form... However, as I stated previously, the knowledge on the effects of an early transition is fairly limited, as it is certainly not common practice, and research on transsexuality is limited in itself.
While the short term effects most certainly do appear to be great, we no nothing of the long term effects this will have. It could lead to some serious complications down the road.

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The same is true of FtMs, although there is some concern over how long a FtM should be on hormones before having an oophorectomy or hysterectomy.
Most of those mortality rates are include suicide, and while I was not speaking of that particularly, I certainly agree that it is a massive issue. As to the the thromboembolic issues, those studies were done mainly before the onset of effective but lower dose synthetic hormones, at least in some cases, (according to friend's Dr). It does appear however that it's not as safe as the pill, but more in line with being a smoker on the pill. (pharmaceutical voice: especially smokers over 35)

Huh, well, learn something new every day. I
was under the impression that bottom surgery for MtFs was just as unsatisfactory as it was for FtMs. Everyone I know well enough that this is an acceptable conversation is FtM.

Its true, but that is the same for almost everyone. There are no real long term, life time studies into this. They just don't exist. And while screwing with biology at 12 seems weird, they have been doing it for quite a while. I don't know the answer, I just know a lot of people would be willing to take the risk of losing a decade or two at the end of their life for not spending a decade in hell and then a decade fixing that hell.