A new treatment halts the onset of puberty for children "born in the wrong body."

Teen angst is hard enough—add to the mix not being fully committed to your biological sex, and you’ve got one confused and unhappy kid.A Time magazine article says children who are at odds with their gender, called gender variants, are twice as likely to try to take their own lives. But a controversial new procedure is attempting to make transition to puberty easier—by delaying it. An experimental approach involving hormone treatments that delay the onset of puberty until the children can better deal with their bodies is posing ethical questions about the altering of normal development.

It’s no surprise that this treatment has its detractors. In the article, Kenneth Zucker, a child psychologist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, says that “comparatively few" gender-variant children grow into transgender adults.

Is it right to administer a treatment for a symptom that might sort itself out over time?