Doctors for the World Professional Association for Transgender Health admitted that puberty blockers can cause irreversible damage to children, according to newly published footage, despite the ...

A new study suggests that growing up in poverty accelerates biological development. For adolescent girls, this early onset of ...

Puberty is not a discrete developmental event; rather it is a process typically beginning between 8 and 13 years in girls and 9 and 14 years in boys. The age at which children begin puberty has been ...

From surging hormones and acne to body hair and body odor, puberty can be a rocky transition for any kid. But girls and boys who start physically developing sooner than their peers face particular ...

I’m a GP – here’s why the puberty blockers trial must go ahead - COMMENT: A landmark drugs trial involving 200 children was supposed to answer thorny questions about giving hormones to adolescents ...

Hormones are chemicals within the body that dictate how other parts of the body function. For example, certain hormones produced in the brain of a child determine the child’s growth, puberty, and ...

How ongoing, age-appropriate conversations about bodies, intimacy, and consent build trust, safety, and lifelong confidence for children of all ages.

Girls who received a ventriculoperitoneal shunt for infantile hydrocephalus had an increased risk of early puberty, particularly those with myelomeningocele and repeated shunt revisions, a ...

FIRST ON FOX: Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen is launching an investigation into a leading pediatrics organization over its "gender-affirming" care policy statement that claims treating ...

Editor’s Note: Lisa Selin Davis is the author of “Tomboy: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare to Be Different.” She has written for The New York Times, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, ...