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Tavistock’s Experimentation with Puberty Blockers: Scrutinizing the Evidence

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Pimmsnlemonade · 05/03/2019 22:51

www.transgendertrend.com/tavistock-experiment-puberty-blockers/

"To summarize, GIDS launched a study to administer experimental drugs to children suffering from gender dysphoria. Between 2010 and 2014, puberty blockers were given to 50 children. This study yielded only one published scientific article on outcomes. It showed no evidence for the effectiveness of GnRHa: there was no statistically significant difference in psychosocial functioning between the group given blockers and the group given only psychological support. In addition, there is unpublished evidence that after a year on GnRHa children reported greater self-harm, and that girls experienced more behavioural and emotional problems and expressed greater dissatisfaction with their body—so puberty blockers exacerbated gender dysphoria. Yet the study has been used to justify rolling out this drug regime to several hundred children aged under 16. Almost five years after the last patient was enrolled in the experiment, there is no evidence to substantiate Carmichael’s claim ‘that the results thus far have been positive’."

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HopeMumsnet · 06/03/2019 12:51

Hi all. We have made some deletions on the thread now (some of which were predicted in the posts, some not...) and we're hoping just to remind you that the reason we feel able to continue to host such an important discussion is because we have our guidelines and (we hope) a commitment from our users to oblige us in sticking to them.
As a parenting forum we truly understand the strength of feeling about this subject, but can we ask once again that before pressing 'post' you're just checking for generalisations and conflations, as doing so will vastly reduce the deletions that we are having to make.
Much obliged to you.

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HopeMumsnet · 06/03/2019 13:59

Hi all,
We'd like to clarify that we have applied our own guidelines here, as we do every time we read through threads.

As to the silencing of discussion - MN has long been one of the few places that will allow this conversation to take place, and we don't feel that two deletions (plus three more for repeating the deleted posts and two posts withdrawn at the poster's request) is excessive, or worthy of being told we are complicit in "perpetuating harm" against children.

We do completely understand that feelings are running high, and we have no wish to be the focus of this conversation, but we did want to take this opportunity to clarify, so as to avoid further speculation and derailing, that we moderate according to our own guidelines re civility and generalisation.

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HopeMumsnet · 06/03/2019 14:14

No problem, Datun - if you check back you'll see we were clear about which posts were being removed for guideline breaking, repeating posts or were just being withdrawn when the poster requested (although to be perfectly honest it's not something we always have the (wo)manpower to do, but we did it today so as to be as clear as possible).
We do appreciate not everyone looks at the messages, though, so it might have appeared at first that there were a real crop of deletions, when in fact there were only a couple.
And yes, we agree, the many posts that remain on this thread attest to the fact that the majority of people can get their point across fine. We'd rather interfere as little as possible, please believe us!

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