Delaying puberty in boys with LFA

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Is it possible to delay (or even entirely avoid) puberty in boys ?

There are ways to delay puberty and a way to prevent it entirely. However, it would need to be approved by a medical ethics board and depends on the level and type of disability. Delaying it is more likely to be approved than completely preventing it. Hormone therapy can be used to delay it. For example, Lupron, which has been used on classically autistic children (low and moderate functioning) in the past. This is only a means to delay puberty, which would occur if the Lupron stopped being administered.

As for preventing it entirely, that would also involve your child remaining child-sized forever, which is much more controversial than simply delaying puberty with hormone therapy. The first known case was a profoundly disabled girl in 2004 so the treatment is named after her. It is called the Ashley Treatment (or Growth Attenuation), although GA is only part of it, particularly for girls. It can be done on boys as well. To date, there are 65* known cases of children who have gone (or are undergoing) this treatment - two are boys, three are girls and the genders of the others are unknown. For boys, it involves the administration of high-dose estrogen over a 2-4 year period in order to close the growth plates prematurely and the treatment is typically started by the time the child is 8 years old. This treatment completely prevents puberty and growth past the age at which the treatment is complete.

Growth attenuation has only been approved for children who are severely cognitively and physically disabled.

*http://pillowangel.org/Arch%20Dis%20Child-2015-Pollock-archdischild-2015-309130Press.pdf

Short answer is, "no, you can't just stop puberty". The only tools available at the present are exceedingly blunt and over time cause far more serious issues than they can possibly resolve or prevent. We're only just realizing the what and how of the gene expressions that get triggered along the way that eventually result in our bodies becoming far more sex dimorphic in adulthood. And considering that there are at least twenty such sites in the brain identified so far, and dozens or more in the endocrine and skeletal systems, it'd be an incredibly risky and irresponsible experiment.

Why.....so we can have forever children? Well I suppose one could find a vampire to change their kid into one since vampires don't age past the point where they became a vampire. But then you'd be stuck with a LFA vampire child.

OP where did you learn of this, what did you learn (specifically benefits), and do you want to do this to your kid?