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What post are you refering to, Antigen?

But if you insist:

The entire sex change is a process that takes years.  First the individual must realise that they are not with the right anatomy.  This typically happens very early - usually before the age of two or three.  The coming out process might be easy or it might be an agonising long time.  There is benefits to do it early and there is benefits waiting until the age of 18.  There is also costs.  If one comes out early with parents not able to grasp what is being asked, the child will be up for a wide variety of abuses.  If the parents accept, then that is a boon.  If the parents are unable to grasp and you wait, you can avoid the worst of the abuse.  However, one has to deal with living in the uncomfortable position for years and that might lead to abuse of self - self-destruction, suicide, etc.

If the hormones are given before the age of puberty, you can delay puberty until one has the resources to undergo the change.  The benefit of this is that your bones don't change during puberty and once transitioned, you will have a more convincing body structure.  Once undergoing the hormone therapies, you are considered to be in the transition.  

I remember reading one case where a child had, with consent, undergone the surgery under the age of 10.  He was happy with the situation, from the reports I've read.  He had started taking the hormones at age four or five.  This is very rare, however, and did not take place in the US but in Germany.  So yeah.  Just one successful case at such an early age.

Well, you'll have to look at the orphanages which have been around for centuries, if not millenia.  It's the issue of the pharmakon (to lift from Szasz) - what do you do with those who are too much of a burden?

The troll.  (I know I was talking to the troll.)

The typical age the process starts is above 18, but there are a few children who have that opportunity.  There is also the children who don't begin the process but already identify as the opposite gender.

You also have to remember that transexual operations can happen - or used to happen - when the obstetrician screws on on the circumcision or that the child is found to have both genitalia.  However, procedures with consent happen as early as four or six and the end results are much better than if they started later.  That is, they look more like the gender they transisted to due to not having gone through puberty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz1Msg551X0

The problem is getting worse (some cities have 20-40% of the homeless child population comprised of GLBT children) in the US.  But the media is picking up on it.  Let's see where this goes.

Salaries Obtained here:  http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/publication ... erp10.html