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Jonathan Kirn/Getty Youth with gender dysphoria have better mental health outcomes when they can access gender-affirming medical care, like hormones or puberty blockers, earlier, according to a new study. The research, published in Pediatrics, found that youth with gender dysphoria—or distress caused by having a different gender identity than the one assigned at birth—who received gender-affirming medical care at a later age had more mental health problems than those who received care earlier. "In particular, being in the late stages of puberty upon presentation to care was associated
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