article_snippet.sent: A 16-year-old who was born a girl but identifies as a boy has been granted the opportunity to go through male puberty after years of living in misery.
article_snippet.sent: The transgender boy, who has felt as though he is living in the wrong body since he was a child, has been given permission by a Brisbane-based judge to receive testosterone injections, the Courier Mail reports.
article_snippet.sent: Queensland teen has been taking puberty blockers for a year, has worn a boy’s uniform for two years and most of he friends are male.
article_snippet.sent: A 16-year-old who was born a girl but identifies as a boy has been granted the opportunity to go through male puberty thanks to hormone treatment .
article_snippet.sent: Queensland teen is just one of many young Australians who have to seek permission from Family Court and prove they are making an ‘independent’ choice before they can be granted second-stage gender-changing hormones.
article_snippet.sent: Currently a child wishing to change gender has to apply to Family Court for this second stage of treatment after Family Court have first taken puberty blocking hormones.
article_snippet.sent: An official diagnosis of gender dysphoria, which describes people who are significantly unhappy with the sex and gender they were assigned at birth, also needs to be given by psychologists and physicians.
article_snippet.sent: Family Courts then assess the extent to which a child’s wishes “reflect true, stable and independent choices” – using the Gillick competency test - before Family Courts grant permission for gender-changing hormones.
article_snippet.sent: A child wishing to change gender has to apply to Family Court for the second stage of gender changing treatment .
highlights_snippet.sent: Queensland teen was born a girl but wears a boy's school uniform .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: a dude'
  Teens can  ask for hormone jabs .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: The injections are the second stage of gender changing treatment .
  