Ashley is a nine-year-old American girl who was born with a brain injury that currently has a mental age of a three-month-old baby.
He has jumped into the media this year because of his parents' decision to stop his growth to facilitate his care and prevent the complications that would cause.
The treatment applied by the doctors at the request of the parents consisted of the removal of Ashley's uterus in order to prevent future menstruation and incipient breasts, so that she does not feel uncomfortable when lying on her stomach.
In addition, he has been given high doses of estrogen which, according to Gunther and Diekema "inhibit growth and rapidly advance the maturation of epiphyseal plaques, which will result in permanent attenuation of body size." Epiphyseal plaques are the growth areas of children's bones. The surgical and chemical interventions began when the girl was only six years old.
The case has aroused a controversy that has led Ashley's parents to open a blog where they tell the story of the little girl and justify the application of the treatment “To those who worry about Ashley's dignity we can tell them that she will retain more dignity in a body that be healthier, more comfortable for her and more appropriate to her state of development, "wrote the father of the child.
