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Please focus your comments on the moral and religious issues raised by the doctors and the parents. For instance, to what extent do you understand the importance of weighing the risks and benefits of the chemical treatments. To what extent to you think the parents make reasonable decisions based on their risk/benefit analysis? To what extent are their decisions based on their emotional response to their child?

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Growing Up Trans was a really eye-opening documentary for me. Before watching this documentary, I was under the impression that there was much more research available to families on the effects of hormone blockers/cross sex hormones on adolescents. I thought that the biggest battle these families faced was accepting/not accepting their child's gender dysmorphia and gender identity, but there's still an abundance of battles to face after committing to transitioning. The long-term effect of these treatments are still largely unknown so these parents are forced to decide to go through with these treatments to improve their child's quality of life in the present, or to hold off to avoid negatively impacting their child's quality of life in the future. I think that more logical parents heavily base everything surrounding their child on research and logical thinking and that because of this they tend to be more accepting of their transgender child. At the same time, it's a very emotional process because these trans kids are experiencing an intense identity crisis on top of find societal acceptance. Emotion was definitely heavily coming into play with John's family, specifically his dad who was in denial of John's gender dysmorphia and tried to use religion as a way to excuse his intolerance. The only way John's dad could even be remotely influenced is after John experienced heavily emotional breakdowns, like begging to be committed into a hospital or punching a kid in the face, which in turn influenced his father's opinions. I think every parent tackles this situation so incredibly differently, but it's evident that emotions and reason come into play and that things like politics, religion, and culture influences how people reason and process their emotions.