Use of puberty blockers on transgender children to be investigated - Times - 26 Jul 19

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www.thetimes.co.uk/article/experts-investigate-use-of-puberty-blockers-on-transgender-children-6l695lflf

Excerpts:

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has asked its committee of experts to look at the ethics around the rapid increase in the use of hormone blockers to treat under-16s who identify as transgender.

Blockers are physically reversible, in that natural puberty will resume if the drugs are discontinued, but their long-term effects on the teenage brain remain unknown. The vast majority of children who begin blockers go on to take cross-sex hormones, which will compromise their fertility, once they reach 16

Yeah I'm sure the 'experts' will all learn the standard script.

I love this confidence that blockers are reversible. I'm sure in 30 years the courts will take a dim view of people having said that left right and centre. You really don't go throwing statements like that around when there hasn't been lots of research done, very few people stop taking them and go about their lives as normal and you don't know what the effects will be 50 years down the line.

‘Compromise their fertility’? 😡
How about ‘render them infertile along with minimal sexual function plus moderate to severe long term health problems’.

I genuinely think this will lead to a restriction in their use. Whoever reviews this knows their whole professional reputation is at stake and the public are so much more aware about the problems of transgenderism than a few years ago. Calling people transphobic has lost some of its sting so I think the climate is right for a more evidence based review of the use of puberty blockers.

Well, that’s got it be good news.

There is no long term evidence into the use of these drugs on children, so how can they possibly conclude there use is anything but unethical?

that’s got t be good news.

Unless it's a way of removing the Blocker step completely and putting all questioning children on hormones right away.

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Imagine for a moment, your younger self, at around the age of 11 that a doctor confidently gave you pills that are powerful enough to stop you becoming a fully functioning female or male.

Children aspire to grow and mature into adults.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7290939/Senior-doctors-probe-drug-therapies-children-want-change-gender.html

The Mail version.

It appears no one is modding the comments... in The Times (just to be clear).

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Times shares are time limited. Which is why it is do useful when the Mail more or less copies them. Also useful in that the Mail has a huge readership including in North America. At one point it was the worlds most read online newspaper.

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