Puberty Blockers - impact on the brain

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Hi all

I'm well aware about the arguments about lack of evidence re. long term effects of PB on physical health / infertility etc, however I never see any discussion of how they may impact brain development.

Part of my PhD was looking at issues affecting specific teenagers and I found the research on cognitive development during puberty really interesting (Sarah Jayne Blakemore has published a lot and there is a TED talk here www.ted.com/talks/sarah_jayne_blakemore_the_mysterious_workings_of_the_adolescent_brain)

Have any cognitive neuroscientists or biologists studied this - are there implications for cognitive development / ability? I would assume that the PBs also inhibit cognitive development related to puberty, but is this true or does it only impact physical development?

It literally does. A trans girl is effectively in the same situation as a hypogonadal cis girl, or a cis girl with severely delayed puberty. In all cases, puberty is induced with the appropriate hormone regime.

I'm guessing the logic is along the lines of if I take an aspirin for a period pain, and my brother takes one for a headache, it's the same problem.

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I have recently wondered this myself. It also gives us ample opportunity to point out the obvious male bias and to repeat how the female body is different (hint: it isn’t really about boobs and full bottoms), I now feel I have to give this definition because at least 3 if not more times, an answer to a in-depth post comes back with one line about males now being able to be females.

Ridiculous to think this is 2021.

But it does make the threads that much more clear and informative. I still learn a lot from them, anyway.

I feel like I should go up and pull the mask off Scooby-Doo style and we can all gasp in shock as it's revealed which long-lost FWR poster it really is

🤣 Shiz is LangCleg and I claim my five pounds!

It literally does. A trans girl is effectively in the same situation as a hypogonadal cis girl, or a cis girl with severely delayed puberty. In all cases, puberty is induced with the appropriate hormone regime.

Oh my god could you stop with saying that females who have medical conditions or abnormal development are basically just male. It's so offensive!

There are many reasons that a female might not go through female puberty as she should, and all of those reasons require investigation and hopefully a diagnosis of something meaning that female can get medical treatment to allow her body to develop as it should as far as it can.

There is only one single reason why a trans girl doesn't, and would never, go through a female puberty.

Examples of correct use of the word literally

There is literally a literal difference between someone who is expected to have female puberty and someone who isn't. And literally it does not depend on what the person thinks or feels and literally depends purely on measurable observable biology

It actually means something and it's not "someone wrote "

@Sophoclesthefox...and she would have gotten away with it if it were not for you pesky women

It actually means something and it's not "someone wrote "

Yeah, cos that's literally literary