The first biological son of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie girl was born, but he has very clear his sexual identity since he was very young. He has always felt like a child and is lucky to have a family that supports him unconditionally.
A while ago he decided to abandon his old name of Shiloh by a new name, John Jolie Pitt, and now it will go a step further towards its voluntary reallocation of gender. As reported by the AFP agency, it has begun a hormonal treatment to change sex.
He has always felt like a child
It doesn't wear hair, you saw looks masculine and has always felt one more male in the family. He has been clear since he has reason because it is part of his identity: he is a boy.
Transgender children demonstrate a persistent identification with the opposite sex, they refer to themselves as boys (in the case of girls) and vice versa, and they reject in a frontal way when they are called of the sex of which their genitals are. Their behaviors are those of the "opposite" sex, and they show it with a stable pattern over time.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have always talked openly about their daughter's condition in interviews, as well as on social networks, and although they are separated they make it clear that they never tell her what she has to do or how she should feel. In an interview in 'Vanity Fair' his mother explained:
"She likes to dress like a child. She wants to be like a child. We had to cut her hair. Let her find her place."HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHILOH NOUVEL
- Angelina Jolie (@angiejolieweb) May 27, 2017
my beautiful and humble person ever
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Stop your development as a woman
Babies and more contacted a specialist to understand what this type of treatment consists of in children and clarify if 11 years is an adequate age to start.
We spoke with Miguel Fernández Sánchez-Barbudo, Clinical Psychologist and Sexologist of the Ofra Health Center (Santa Cruz de Tenerife), and co-founder of the Gender Identity Unit of the University Hospital of the Canary Islands, who has explained a little more about hormone therapy in children.
He explained that when the second stage is reached according to the Tanner scale, a stage in which secondary sexual characteristics begin to develop, and there is a clear intention of sex change, analogues of LHRH (gonadotropin-releasing hormone) are used. that act like puberty brakes.
Thus, development is inhibited before puberty changes begin to occur such as breast development or the arrival of menstruation, if we talk about a girl.
There is no set minimum age to begin the treatment, since it does not correspond to a chronological age, but to a stage of development that is different in each person.
Developmental braking therapy is reversible. That is to say that if it is suspended, the development will continue normally; the rule will come and her sexual characteristics of woman will develop.
If you want to continue with the sex change treatment later, the next intervention (around 14 years old) is to use androgens to gradually masculinize. These hormones will develop male characteristics such as severe voice, increased muscle mass, clitoral hypertrophy and redistribution of body fat.
