Synonyms for puberty
ˈpyu bər tipu·ber·ty

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1. puberty, pubescencenoun

   the time of life when sex glands become functional

   Synonyms:
   pubescence

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1. pubertynoun

   Associated words:
   puberal, pubescence, pubescent, hebetic, impuberal

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1. Nancy Hogshead-Makar:

   USA Swimming’s eligibility policy is outstanding for biological women, first, it declares that the purpose of the evaluation is to ensure that transgender women do not have an unfair advantage over cisgender women in competitive sports. Second, it requires that transgender women must demonstrate they’ve mitigated their male-puberty advantage.

2. Ron DeSantis:

   When they say gender-affirming care, they mean giving puberty blockers to teenage girls and teenage boys, they mean doing double mastectomies on young girls, they mean chemically castrating young boys. That is wrong. We are not going to allow that to happen in the state of Florida.

3. World Athletics:

   The science shows that anyone who has gone through male puberty retains male anatomical differences that provide an athletic advantage, the World Athletics Council was unwilling to compromise the integrity of the female category without evidence that these male advantages can be ameliorated.

4. Lia Thomas:

   I'm a little bit more hopeful because I think that, at least as swimmers, we kind of realize that it's not just testosterone levels, it's testosterone levels from the last 20 years and how that affected, you know, the fact that [Thomas] went through male puberty and the way that built her heart and lungs and her hands and the way she circulates blood and the lactic acid and all that stuff.

5. Kurt Vonnegut:

   What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.