Peggy Cohen-Ketnes

After a year on testosterone, he was ready to start university as a man.

After a year on testosterone, he was ready to start university as a man.

So this is how it all started. With a kid who only ever wanted to wake up and have it be that he was born a boy, and to never have to explain himself to anyone. He wasn't the first kid to feel that way, but through some combination of his conviction, the place and time, and the doctors who took him seriously, he was the first kid to get this revolutionary medical intervention.

So this is how it all started. With a kid who only ever wanted to wake up and have it be that he was born a boy, and to never have to explain himself to anyone. He wasn't the first kid to feel that way, but through some combination of his conviction, the place and time, and the doctors who took him seriously, he was the first kid to get this revolutionary medical intervention.

FG was 24 years old when Peggy published her first case report on him. It was 11 years after he'd started blockers and six years after he'd begun hormones and had his first surgery. Peggy wrote that FG, quote, reported no gender dysphoria at all. He said that he had found the adjustment to the male role to be very easy and expressed no doubts on the adequacy of his masculine behavior.

FG was 24 years old when Peggy published her first case report on him. It was 11 years after he'd started blockers and six years after he'd begun hormones and had his first surgery. Peggy wrote that FG, quote, reported no gender dysphoria at all. He said that he had found the adjustment to the male role to be very easy and expressed no doubts on the adequacy of his masculine behavior.

He never felt any regrets about his decision and had never contemplated to live as a girl again. In conclusion, Peggy said, for certain selected cases with a lifelong, consistent, and extreme gender identity disorder, delaying puberty may be a physical and psychological beneficial way to intervene.

He never felt any regrets about his decision and had never contemplated to live as a girl again. In conclusion, Peggy said, for certain selected cases with a lifelong, consistent, and extreme gender identity disorder, delaying puberty may be a physical and psychological beneficial way to intervene.

Because of FG, Peggy thought that more kids could benefit from what had clearly been a transformational treatment for him. And she thought that the benefits of puberty blockers were twofold. They could prevent young bodies from growing in an undesired direction.

Because of FG, Peggy thought that more kids could benefit from what had clearly been a transformational treatment for him. And she thought that the benefits of puberty blockers were twofold. They could prevent young bodies from growing in an undesired direction.

They also made it possible for kids to consider, without that stress, whether they wanted to go on to the next steps, which would be irreversible.

They also made it possible for kids to consider, without that stress, whether they wanted to go on to the next steps, which would be irreversible.

But to give this treatment to more kids, Peggy felt they needed a process.

But to give this treatment to more kids, Peggy felt they needed a process.

She began to codify a protocol, what would come to be known as the Dutch Protocol.

She began to codify a protocol, what would come to be known as the Dutch Protocol.

And the critical part of that protocol was a process for assessing the kids to figure out who should receive medical intervention. which kids would benefit from it and not come to regret it.

And the critical part of that protocol was a process for assessing the kids to figure out who should receive medical intervention. which kids would benefit from it and not come to regret it.

In the early 2000s, Peggy moved her work to Amsterdam, to the biggest transgender medical program in the country. And she started to put together a team of mental health providers to assess and treat the kids coming into the clinic, including a psychiatrist named Analu De Vries. And what happened next would explain how this care that started almost by accident with this one kid

In the early 2000s, Peggy moved her work to Amsterdam, to the biggest transgender medical program in the country. And she started to put together a team of mental health providers to assess and treat the kids coming into the clinic, including a psychiatrist named Analu De Vries. And what happened next would explain how this care that started almost by accident with this one kid