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Gender Affirming Hormone Treatment for Trans Adolescents: A Four Principles Analysis

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>1/06/2024
<mark>Journal</mark>Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
Issue number2
Volume21
Number of pages19
Pages (from-to)345-363
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date19/01/24
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Gender affirming hormone treatment is an important part of the care of trans adolescents which enables them to develop the secondary sexual characteristics congruent with their identified genders. There is an increasing amount of empirical evidence showing the benefits of gender affirming hormone treatment for psychological health and social well-being in this population. However, in several countries, access to gender affirming hormone treatment for trans adolescents has recently been severely restricted. While much of the opposition to gender affirming hormone treatment for trans adolescents has in part been ideologically motivated, it also reflects a debate about whether there are harms that outweigh the benefits of the treatment. Accordingly, a systematic and comprehensive philosophical analysis of the ethics of gender affirming hormone treatment for trans adolescents is needed. Herein, I offer such an analysis that draws on the four principles of biomedical ethics by Tom Beauchamp and James Childress. Based on the considerations of beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice, I argue that the provision of access to gender affirming hormone treatment for consenting trans adolescents is ethically required and that the current restrictions to such treatment are ethically wrong.

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Export Date: 1 February 2024