Warnings of impact on height and bone strength prompt calls for review into prescribing puberty blockers for children

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From today's Sunday Times.

"A warning over the health impacts of giving puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to young people struggling with gender identity has prompted a call for a review of their use in Scotland.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) said that existing studies of the drugs were small and “subject to bias and confounding”.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a79b75dc-94ca-11eb-8d6e-90b9b6b1f793?shareToken=4f718a9a4682151a9d9bcdf92ec554d7&fbclid=IwAR2OM0M3eEc917XNf9GoEi1XnT1AMhA0GeYuPsSaXJdJHEsFOC3CStXcTJs

Perhaps they have an open mind to the benefits rather than a messianic zeal to make life harder and nastier for trans folk.

@RobinMoiraWhite
What benefits would you be talking about? Genuine question as even the head of the Tavistock admitted under oath in court that their is no psychological benefits and we know the physical harm they cause including the consequences to brain development, so I'm really curious about what these benefits are

Thanks Lion, that's an excellent example of how difficult it is as a Democrat in the US querying this stuff.

It's quite scary how little gatekeeping and so safeguarding there is for these teens who suddenly thing changing sex is the answer.

@HermitsLife

Why has it taken this long for an organization to figure out something that is basic common sense?

Yeah, who could have figured out that stunting a child’s growth would stunt its growth.

The first part of that was going to be forgiving myself. I started by trying to honor myself for what I was trying to do with transition. It was an attempt - an extreme attempt - to improve my life. Yes, it was ill-advised, and yes, maybe I should have known better.

But I can’t deny that in the distorted frame of mind I was in, I thought I was making a good choice for myself. I even suspected that the operation was a necessary part of a life-affirming, even life-saving transition. Was I wrong? YES. But I had been supported in my belief by several nurses, two doctors, and my therapist.

I had a cadre of credentialed medical professionals telling me that this was the sort of thing that WAS likely to help me.

And, of course, I was frightened by slogans like “better to have a happy son than a dead daughter,” which made me think I might be likely to commit suicide if I didn’t transition.

Where was the gatekeeping here?

hormonehangover.substack.com/p/top-surgery-regret-part-2-healing

It's a familiar narrative, isn't it?

In what kind of twisted brain does allowing a child to grow up healthy, strong and with full capability of making their own descisions about how to live their adult life messianic, hard and nasty?

This child is so young.

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"I do not like spending my free time asking adults to make good choices."