An increasing number of kids are experiencing gender confusion. Gay Rights advocates say transitioning to their perceived gender will solve the problem and have been pushing puberty blockers and corrective surgery. However, many physicians and therapists oppose puberty blockers, even ones that are strongly pro-gay. Gay Rights advocates have been pushing legislation to prevent parents with interfering with the child’s decision to transition and some schools are refusing to notify parents when their child wants to transition. The treatment must begin around age eleven but kids that age are too young to understand implications of it. Time is required for maturity and hormones play big part of that. Puberty blockers prevent normal sexual development, causing sexual dysfunction and often permanently sterility. England has been more aggressive in the use of puberty blockers, however there is an increasing backlash against the use. Workers have become upset with the fact that counselors do not adequately screen children for emotional problems and are pressing for use of puberty blockers with very little understanding of the potential effects and very little follow-up to see if the treatment has been effective. In addition, children are beginning to realize the outcomes from the use of puberty blockers and are beginning to file lawsuits claiming they were misled by counselors. The courts are beginning to agree. Hopefully other countries like the United States will begin to seriously question the practice and it will lead to serious investigation of the use.