The Truth About Puberty Blockers - Gerald Posner in the WSJ

'Gender-affirming care for children is undoubtedly a flashpoint in America’s culture wars. It is also a human experiment on children and teens, the most vulnerable patients. Ignoring the long-term dangers posed by unrestricted off-label dispensing of powerful puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, combined with the large overdiagnosis of minors as gender dysphoric, borders on child abuse.'

Good to see this stated so clearly, in the WSJ.

I don't know of Posner but Abigail Shrier calls him "one of the most rigorous and respected investigative journalists working today". He's been looking into the subject for at least six months and there is more to come apparently.

It's an horrific experiment, held in plain sight of us all.

I often wonder how future generations will look back on the things that are happening now. Perhaps they will share how we now feel about sending children up chimneys or believing you can cure TB by blood- letting.

It is all mad ... completely mad. How anyone can justify putting children on these drugs is incomprehensible.

I am not unsympatheitc to those who feel they would like to look/ dress/behave as the opposite gender ... two of my DDs did exactly that when they were small. We treated it in a matter of fact way and went with the flow. It passed. I also have a very close near- adult relative who identifies as a different gender ... I love them dearly.

I have no problem with grown adults making reasoned choices about their lives, but damaging children breaks the prime rule of medecine: first do no harm.

It seems to me that people simply want the freedom to break out from stereotypes ... my observations suggest that this is all about a way of life rather than sex. Who puts what where seems to be bottom of the list.

Let us fight to protect our children.

Who guessed it would be the Wall Street Journal leading the attempt to move back to sanity and evidence-based medicine in the US? It's an excellent article.

That's a good article - great that this stuff is finally getting out there in the US.

Not a subscriber so I can't read very far, but that intro doesn’t hold back, does it?