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医学杂志《儿科学》日前刊登几份研究报告称，认为自己生错了性别，从而得到家长和医生的支持，接受变性治疗的青少年甚至更小的儿童虽然数量不大，但正逐渐增加。该问题引起了伦理质疑，一些专家要求对此采取谨慎态度。 洛杉矶一名8岁的2年级学童出生时是个女孩，但在18个月时“他”宣布“我是个男孩”，并且一直坚持这么认为。“他”的家人一开始很震惊，但现在已把“他”看成男孩，并准备在“他”出现最初的青春期特征后就开始治疗。对此，波士顿儿童医院性别认同医疗中心负责人斯帕克认为，儿科医生们需要知道这些孩子存在并应该接受治疗。改换性别角色，偶尔假扮成另一种性别对于小孩子来说很普遍。但这些孩子不同。他们很确定自己生错了性别。据估计大约1万名儿童中就有1名有这样的问题。 A small but growing number of teens and even younger children who think they were born the wrong sex are getting support from parents and from doctors who give them sex-changing treatments, according to reports in the medical journal Pediatrics。 It's an issue that raises ethical questions, and some experts urge caution in treating children with puberty-blocking drugs and hormones。 An 8-year-old second-grader in Los Angeles is a typical patient. Born a girl, the child announced at 18 months, "I a boy" and has stuck with that belief. The family was shocked but now refers to the child as a boy and is watching for the first signs of puberty to begin treatment, his mother told The Associated Press。 | 
