This past month the Nemours/A.I. duPont Hospital for Children has opened a facility that will help transgender teens.
The Wilmington News Journal reports that the Gender Wellness Clinic is part of a national effort among pediatric hospitals to help transgender and gender-nonconforming youth.
The clinic’s help involves not only surgery and hormonal therapy but programs to help transgender youth both medically and psychologically.
Dr. Evan Graber, director of the clinic, told the paper that he saw his first transgender patient around three years ago and now has 50.
A UCLA study last year found that around 150-thousand young adults in the country identify as transgender.
In Delaware there are an estimated 400 teens between the age of 13 and 17 who the study found say they are transgender.