“…Issues of autonomy include youth rights to privacy and confidentiality, arbitrary age requirements to access care, and emerging capacity to consent to care (Giordano, 2007(Giordano, , 2013Milrod, 2014;Stein, 2012;Swann & Herbert, 2009). Benefits of endocrine care include relieving psychological suffering and preventing the development of unwanted secondary sex characteristics, which, coupled with the low risk of harm from this treatment and the potential risk of causing harm by withholding care, make a compelling case in support of endocrine care for trans youth (Antommaria, 2014;Baltieri et al, 2009;Giordano, 2007;Holman & Goldberg, 2006;Stein, 2012;Vrouenraets et al, 2015).…”