Morning Star: Doubt cast on Tavistock gender clinic's puberty blockers trial

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Not for the first time, The Morning Star shows the Left isn’t an entirely lost cause on trans issues:

morningstaronline.co.uk/article/doubt-cast-puberty-blockers-trial

Thank goodness for the Morning Star, who've been consistently sounding the alarm around safeguarding issues and analysing transgenderism in the context of class and sex based oppression.

I find it fascinating that the Mail and the Times are both in agreement with such a left wing paper.

Bring Back The Communist Party!

(Chorus: 'Which one? CPGB? BCP? RCP? People's Judean Popular People's Front, etc.)

It’s quite a useful resource if you are arguing with those who categorically won’t follow links to the Mail or Times.

I think that's the best newspaper article I've seen on this subject, it's very well written. Let's hope we start to see changes in how gender confused children are supported. We may not be able to undo the harm already done but we can prevent more children undergoing untested and irreversible treatment with unknown long term consequences.

A really very good article.

The conclusion of an analysis by Professor Carl Heneghan (2019) of all published studies of “gender affirming” hormone treatment was: “The current evidence base does not support informed decision making and safe practice in children.”

I wonder howhow much the far right paid them to publish this

Great article and yes helpful do those who won't read the times or mail.

Excellent article - thank you for posting it.

Plain summary of ethical and clinical concerns.

Great article. Pulls everything together.

Where it mentions the sheep trials (re puberty blockers) - am I right in thinking that when they talk about a critical window being missed, they mean for kids who go on blockers from say age 12-16 then stop, that they will miss puberty completely?

I know they say 100% of the cohort on blockers then go on to cross-sex hormones, but do they honestly not know what would happen if say a 16 year old girl decided to stop blockers and also not go on to male hormones?

Tell me they know what will happen...

Great article, well done again Stephanie!

Macaroon I don't believe they know at all... They have some data on what happens when blockers are used for precocious puberty and then stopped at the normal age of puberty; but there can't be any meaningful data on this sort of use when people just don't come off them in any of the trials.

Tell me they know what will happen

Nope. Since 100% of children in all 3 studies went on to X sex hormones they have literally no idea. It’s batshit.

I’m glad there is ONE scientist actually doing animal studies but really I have no idea how good a model sheep are in this regard. I would think a primate model would be more suitable.

Any case it’s insane to me that the human studies pass ethics review - in terms of both COI and informed consent they are all deeply, fatally compromised.

An excellent article from the Morning Star.

I could cry for those kids. They have been let down so badly.

Who is Stephanie Aria? Is she gender-critical?
I'm trying to pick things up as I go, sorry.

Who is Stephanie Aria? Is she gender-critical?

Stephanie is award-winning (literally) and GC with superb work on a schools resource pack:

conatusnews.com/stephanie-davies-arai-transgender-trend-john-maddox-prize/

A very useful, well sourced article. The GIDS is not fit for purpose.

Reading just how appalling the medical ethics of the research are makes me wonder how many of the Tavistock's patients will be able to sue on the basis that they weren't told the truth about puberty blockers. In fact it reads as if it was worse than not being told the truth. They are being actively misled.

Thanks ArranUpsideDown.

She sounds wonderful, and very committed to saving kids from this madness. The article is really helpful in laying things out in detail, but easy to follow.

Where it mentions the sheep trials (re puberty blockers) - am I right in thinking that when they talk about a critical window being missed, they mean for kids who go on blockers from say age 12-16 then stop, that they will miss puberty completely?

I read it as suggesting that certain things that normally happen might not, but not necessarily that nothing will happen. So, perhaps once they were stopped and the body started producing its own hormones, you'd get secondary sex characteristics, but the brain maturation element would not happened - whatever triggers that would have been interrupted and won't restart. Or something else similar, that's just a guess.

Thanks for this :)