What Could Justify Physician Refusal of Puberty Suppressive Therapy?

摘要

In his commentary on Andrea's case, Alex Kon (2014) enumerates well the professional position papers that concern transgendered individuals. Kon's survey is quite useful and germane to the case, and yet, I believe his analysis misses an important element of the case that I attempt here to address-namely, the ethical status of the physician's refusal to provide hormone treatments to retard the onset of puberty. I briefly lay out why the physician's response is ethically unsupportable.