The Truth About Puberty Blockers - Gerald Posner in the WSJ

[DerekFaker]

The Truth About ‘Puberty Blockers’

The FDA hasn’t approved them for gender dysphoria, and their effects are serious and permanent.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-truth-about-puberty-blockers-overdiagnosis-gender-dysphoria-children-933cd8fb

To be precise: it's an opinion piece, not an article.

I can't read that article in the WSJ.

There's a link to an archived version in my other post.

I see from the twitter feed that some people still arent having it.

Puberty blockers must be the only medication that is risk free. We give paracetamol to 6 week old babies but we do still have to acknowledge there are many possible side effects akd possibilities of adverse reactions.

There is no substance on this earth that isn't dangerous in the wrong amounts or circumstances. Even food, water and oxygen can cause harm and we need these to survive.

Anyone with half a brain would think it odd that a medication that has such a strong effect is so risk free and safe even though it requires gloves to handle it.

Look what happened with thalidomide.

The only people I'd say who are hurting " trans kids" are those who want to have this important information withheld and any research kept quiet to stop upsetting all the middle aged males who never took it , used their fully developed bodies to father children, but want the kids to be denied the opportunity to do the same.

Research isn't there to validate choices its there to ensure we can keep track and progress .

An opinion piece is just a newspaper article which expresses the author's opinion, isn't it?

It’s not a scientific journal article outlining new research, no, but the Wall Street Journal has a big U.S. and international audience and I don’t think the substance of what he’s saying can be disagreed with on a factual level.

Who wouldn’t be outraged and use strong opinionated words about this? It’s not even ‘an experiment’.

Experiments with human subjects have informed consent, loads of official oversight, the results are followed up and published and most importantly if they cause harm to the subjects then they are stopped early.

Experiments with human subjects have informed consent, loads of official oversight, the results are followed up and published and most importantly if they cause harm to the subjects then they are stopped early

They also arent done on children.

I do wonder why puberty blockers as a treatment are held to different standards than every thing else.

If you took three patients with the same cancer. One may choose a surgical option. One may choose medical.option. amd another may choose to leave the hospital and take no treatment at all.

At no point does anyone take to twitter or TV to accuse someone who took no treatment of being offensive or advocating for withholding options from patients who do want treatment. If someone on the cancer ward started yelling abuse at someone fir invalidating their choice for surgery they'd be told to fuck off.

With this its actively encouraged

The difference between reporting and opinion is crucial.

US newspapers have op-ed pages, in which an opinion is expressed. This is different from reporting of, say, Theranos's fraud, which I believe was first exposed by a WSJ reporter.