Can anyone help with gender dysphoria?
Your best bet is probably to talk to your mom. Since you’re 13, I imagine you’re scared s***less about puberty, and specifically worrying about how to avoid it, if possible. Tell your mom that you’ve had these feelings for a long time, and that they haven’t gone away. Tell her that you live in terror of going through a male puberty, and that you would really like to see a gender therapist. Talk to her about hormone blockers, which an endocrinologist might be able to prescribe. Make sure she knows that blockers wouldn’t make you grow breasts, and they won’t have any permanent effects. Basically, all blockers do is keep you from further developing for a while, to give you time to sort things out. She needs to know that you need these as soon as humanly possible, because you’re about to go through puberty, and some changes are impossible to reverse (such as height, shoulder width, and foot size). Assure her that blockers are reversible, should you suddenly come to the conclusion that you’
