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Pom, Cindy. "'It wasn't fair': Why an Ontario faculty is not letting a sick girl go to prom". Notable among the many morphologic adjustments in size, form, composition, and functioning of the pubertal physique, is the event of secondary sex characteristics, the "filling in" of the child's physique; from woman to woman, from boy to man. However the speed of conversion from testosterone to estradiol (pushed by FSH/LH stability) throughout early puberty is extremely particular person, leading to very various growth patterns of secondary sexual characteristics. For males, the androgen testosterone is the principal sex hormone; while testosterone is produced, all males' adjustments are characterized as virilization. Before puberty, the exterior intercourse organs, generally known as major sexual traits, are intercourse traits that distinguish males and females. Puberty that starts earlier than common is known as precocious puberty, and puberty which begins later than common is known as delayed puberty. The degrees of leptin increase with the onset of puberty, and then decline to grownup levels when puberty is accomplished. Individuals who're deficient in leptin fail to provoke puberty. Leptin has receptors within the hypothalamus which synthesizes GnRH.