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Hormone Therapy

A 2010 study showed that 23 percent of black girls, 15 percent of Hispanic girls, 10 percent of white girls and two percent of Asian girls had started developing breasts by the time they were seven. 
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Hormones in food may lead to early puberty

Katti Gray
theGRIO REPORT - The pediatrician’s first reaction to then second-grader Kayla Haye’s budding breasts—a sign of the child’s premature puberty—was to consider placing her on therapeutic hormones...
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Caster Semenya of South Africa

Athletic organization forces masculine women to take hormones

Frugivore Magazine
FRUGIVORE - Ever since Caster Semenya, 21, made waves in South Africa by winning the 800-meter world championship, the idea that women with traditionally masculine characteristics were not feminine enough to compete...
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