Ace Nelson already published some of this story.
Several people have recently tried to make sure that I noticed the Boston Globe article about Nicole Maines and her family, entitled Led by the child who simply knew. Jonas and Wyatt Maines were born twin boys but, as Jonas is reported to have said early in their childhood:
Dad, you might as well face it. You have a son and a daughter.
The twins are now 14 and Nicole is being treated by the relatively new Gender Management Service Clinic at Children’s Hospital Boston. The GeMS Clinic was founded in 2007 by endocrinologist Norman Spack and urologist David Diamond. It is the first pediatric academic program in the Western Hemisphere to evaluate and treat pubescent transkids.
Not everyone agrees with what GeMS does, of course.
Not everyone agrees that they should, of course, and Spack has heard the arguments: Man should not interfere with what God has wrought. Early adolescents are too young for such huge decisions, much less life-altering treatment.