Natalie Kitroeff

But, you know, look at hormone replacement therapy.

And she said yes.

And she was a light.

I mean, I knew.

Like, it all clicked.

Did you have any hesitation about offering up the kind of option of a medical intervention that quickly, that immediately?

I didn't.

In hindsight, it really wasn't this all of a sudden thing.

We had noticed this about her since she was two or three.

It felt to me like what I had been seeing her struggle with over the past year had been that she was going through puberty.

It was the body changing that is unchangeable.

once she goes through puberty that was causing all of this dysphoria.

Um, what I thought is the sooner she gets on this, then the slower than, you know, puberty can be paused.

And she now has time to really think this through.

Um,

So what I knew was to say, OK, do you want to get on hormone blockers to, like, figure this out?

You know, because at least it can stop it for a moment and pause it while you figure this out.

Like, that's OK.

The very next day, Allie's parents started making moves.

They made two appointments for her, one with her therapist and one with her doctor.