The Danger of Puberty Suppression: An Ethical Evaluation of Suppressing Puberty in Gender-Dysphoric Children from a Christian Perspective - Paperback

by Michael S. Dellaperute (Author), Mark McGinniss (Foreword by)

What would you do if a child in your life rejected their natal gender? Would you blindly follow the counsel of a culture that advocates for hormone treatment at an early age in order to suppress puberty and facilitate gender transition? Before you commit to long-term use of a powerful, expensive, and experimental synthetic hormone treatment plan, would you be willing to take the time to examine the ethics surrounding a course of action that will permanently affect the life of the child? Several serious questions are presently being overlooked in the rush to treat gender dysphoric and TGNC children with puberty-suppressing hormones, such as: Are puberty-suppressing hormones medically necessary? Is there any evidence to prove that hormone treatment is helpful, and not harmful, to gender-dysphoric children? Does hormone treatment resolve gender dysphoria? Do other treatment options exist to address the underlying causes of gender dysphoria? Are parents, medical providers, and ministry professionals morally obligated to provide puberty suppressors for patients who self-diagnose? Does Scripture offer any insight into the treatment of gender dysphoric children? And finally, who really benefits from advocating for the early use of GnRH agonists? This book will answer these questions.

Author Biography

Michael S. Dellaperute is the lead pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in Little Egg Harbor, NJ. He holds a bachelor's degree in Bible and an MDiv from Cairn University, and he is presently a PhD candidate in systematic theology at Clarks Summit University. Michael has been married to his wife Michelle since 1992, and they have four sons.