I welcome conclusive evidence that puberty blockers are catastrophically harmful and do not address gender incongruence. I would be very confused since it would not in any way match my own experiences, but if those turn out to be the findings then something must have caused them.
Your discrepancies in your accounts of having a condition that meant you didn’t progress through puberty and also received puberty blockers at a late age, 17, mean your individual experience counts for little in terms of confusion in relation to outcomes of children puberty blocked earlier, at the ages of 12 or so.
And even despite that, in practically every clinical trial there are outcomes that aren’t the same. It’s not “confusing” it’s part of the evidence. If only 0.1% of children out of puberty blockers are helped, congratulations on being that 0.1%, but the other 99.9% weren’t. This isn’t “confusing”, is it?
What we do from there is important. Saint Cass herself said we should not consider trans and non-trans outcomes in a biased fashion and people should get treatment if they need it.
”Saint Cass.” Pathetic. Biased fashion. What treatment? What treatment do they need? Watching and waiting and supporting through difficult times is treatment. It has better outcomes.
If it is not safe to completely suppress puberty then we may still be able to gain some beneficial effects from partial suppression using a specific medication profile.
This isn’t possible.
It may strengthen the case for earlier interventions with CSH for patients who have a clear clinical need and where PB's aren't with a safe window.
Yes, of course, while all the focus is on puberty blockers, let’s just ignore the incredible harms from wrong sex hormones and pretend putting children on them earlier isn’t also going to cause massive problems 🙄.
There is no safe window for wrong sex hormones either. Cancer, heart disease, liver disease, early death. Given you have a myriad of health problems you’ve admitted to, you’re not naive to the fact that you’re on a pathway to significant morbidity and a shortened lifespan as a result of decades of wrong sex hormones, so why are you so desperate to get kids on them sooner?
At the end of the day, this is about safety and the best possible individual outcome isn't it?
The best individual outcome is for a person to receive therapy for their body dysmorphia, come to terms with the fact they can’t change sex and they have to deal with the body they have, and accept that body modification doesn’t help and risks a myriad of health problems. To anyone sensible, this is win-win for everyone. And it’s achievable. Because it’s happened. It’s just that too many clinicians have taken the easy way out and foregone appropriate treatment because it’s in the too hard basket.
Instead, let’s commit children to a lifetime of medical misery instead🙄