Testosterone prescriptions for women soar

[lcakethereforeIam]

The Times, Scottish section

www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/testosterone-prescriptions-for-women-soar-22j6q92n0

https://archive.ph/HixNW paywall bypass

Bloody hell. Not the best colour coding but the aged 20s matches the aged 40s in orange.

@WarriorN and it's rising more steeply.
Thank you @lcakethereforeIam - hope Wes Steering is looking at this.

I hope that menopause treatment doesn't get swept up in the same backlash- as in I want it assessed correctly and separately rather than stopped.

Damn. Words aren't working again today.

I'm hoping to try testosterone at some point for energy and memory.

Joanna Cherry calling prescription of testosterone to girls/young women a medical scandal:

https://www.thetimes.com/article/1f7a5943-e8c1-4bc9-add8-a353cc352d9f?shareToken=9dceefd210fe6fda2029dd1bb188e194

Look at that chart and tell me this isn't a social contagion.

Tbf I mean just because a drug wasn't used before could mean anything - eg new research saying there's X benefits etc.

Use for young women is concerning. But for women tackling menopause - surely it depends on dose vs benefits?

If I were a GP I'd want nothing to do with it and I would expect support from my regulator body and union.

is there any way to find out about relative dosage? The young women will surely be taking far more testosterone than the menopausal/perimenopausal women?

It's been around a long time.
Its massive use in adolescent girls has come out of nowhere. There is no proper research saying that it has X benefits for them.

If there were lots of women in the 25-70 age bracket all saying, 'Huh, I always thought I was really man, gimme some of that', I'd be thinking differently. I can remember being gay becoming more acceptable and all sorts of people gradually coming out of the closet, so you'd expect to see the same here if being trans is something that endures. But you're not.

Which is why I think it's a social contagion.