USA Govt Publishes Final Peer-Reviewed Puberty Blockers Report

And this is the ‘Peer review supplement’ which is worth reading.

https://opa.hhs.gov/gender-dysphoria-report-peer-reviews

This is the feedback from peer reviewers.

This is great news. On a lighter note, we’ve had so many threads titled or comments saying “is the tide turning?” that it made me smile (and feel relieved!) to see an actual government person saying the tide is turning.

Giving children a shot that prevents them naturally developing into adults is grotesque and makes no evolutionary sense whatsoever.

I'm very glad this madness is being exposed properly now.

Obviously RFK Jr is a dangerous nutter, but 🤣 at the huge, huge audacity and irony of a man who comes onto Mumsnet calling himself “NumbersGuy”, who responds to discussion of a peer reviewed report with an ad hominem attack based on wrong-headed views on completely separate subjects!

This is a derail and if you want to dicsuss the ins and outs of the USA medical behemoth and the crap it shoves down people's throats, maybe start your own thread on it as none of this has anything to do with the systematic creation of 'puberty' as a disease to be treated.

Vaccines are not puberty blockers.

I hope this helps you clarify things.

I've not read the report, but surely one can have low quality evidence which supports the assertion that there is no evidence to support the idea of sterilizing kids or having them undergo cosmetic surgeries related to secondary sex characteristics?

I think Trump's administration is incredibly bad in many ways, but on the other hand I genuinely don't believe that medical transition full stop - and child transition in particular - has enough credibility to warrant a report that goes further than "no transition for anyone unless someone can use existing data to prove much better outcomes for transitioners than if they don't transition, and provide evidence that transitioners still benefit even in a society that is explicitly clear - sex matters, gender never ever ever matters."

Low quality evidence isn’t no evidence, and it isn’t evidence of ‘danger’ either. They’re not going to look for any further evidence, so problem solved?

I am terrified by the idea of children transitioning physically and felt nothing but relief when the Cass review was published. But I felt that because it was a considered and expert piece of work. Both of which are dirty words to this administration.

WoW, this is shocking. As shocking as adult gender services not giving their data thé the Cass report. You have to wonder why.

’HHS invited the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Endocrine Society to contribute their evidence to this report. Both organizations declined to participate.’

Wonderful news to start the day! This trend is definitely on its way out. Thank god.

@NumbersGuy- fortunately on this issue they’re agreeing with the systematic reviews from other countries, including obviously Cass.
On other health issues Levine may have been better suited to the role but was hardly unbiased on this one. The cost to children in the US has been high.

Which part of the HHS report do you disagree with? Presumably you have read it all?

What a horrible, odious man Rachel Levine was. How such a loathsome person got into such a high office, one that requires legislative approval, I'll never know.

So you support children being given experimental treatments that cause infertility and may have other serious long term effects? Why?

Failing to actually know who prompted this paper and leads the HHS in the U.S., take a look at the link on showing how this vaccine skeptic, who doesn't believe the Covid-19 vaccines are necessary and cutting out research dollars because it causes autism, as well as those for vaccines for measles, rubella, and the mumps. Drinking raw milk is safer than pasteurized milk. Removing anyone with any type of legitimate medical background that isn't anti-vaccine from guiding the U.S. that the orange blob gave the job to in order to get his endorsement. A man with no legitimate medical educational background except for law and environmental advocacy. If you can believe this crackpot, I'm sure you would easily find someone to sell you the crown jewels too.

How RFK Jr is systematically undermining vaccines around the world

Brilliant! I believe NZ have also banned ?

Another bit of excellent news!

Thank you for sharing.