Date of Award
5-2025
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Leadership Studies
First Advisor
Dr. Jessica Flanigan
Abstract
In this paper, I give an overview of the varying perspectives on gender affirming care, which disagree on who has the right to decide for the adolescent. I offer the psychological model as the perspective providers should take to avoid imposing their own morals on the patient. Next, I explore adolescent wellbeing and determine that since no adolescent specific goods exist, we should treat adolescents by child or adult wellbeing if you believe child wellbeing exists). I find that with these arguments, physicians should prescribe puberty blockers to adolescents as it gives more access to wellbeing. Finally, I explore objections on each premise and respond.
Recommended Citation
Konigsberg, Alexander, "An Ethical Defense of Puberty Blockers as Gender Affirming Care for Adolescents" (2025). Honors Theses. 1830.
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/honors-theses/1830
