The no harm, reversible messaging came from medical educators. Do not know if they have changed their tunes of late, but perhaps this should be considered.
I don’t find this report particularly amazing, but it at least it gives it an authoritative spin.
The purpose of “puberty blockers” is to “block puberty”.
Puberty is the period when your sexual organs mature.
Therefore the sex organs remain immature.
Forever.
I’m not sure this is remarkable.
Devoid of all hGC, the organs atrophy, which is already well-understood in endocrinology. It happens to bodybuilders taking Steroids, because the excess testosterone shuts off hGC.
However, they have fully mature penises, and can orgasm.
As 95%+ go on to estrogen which is expected to sterilize them in a few years, according to the consent forms, this is an added worry but they are already on a conveyor belt for lifelong sterility once they take the puberty blockers.
Why there weren’t tests like these done before these drugs were handed out like candy, with adherents giving statements that had no bearing on any factual data available to them or anyone else that the drugs effects were reversible.
All of the preliminary studies on puberty blockers used to halt normal-timed puberty remind me of the Rely tampon and the Dalkon Shield IUD. Both were supposed advances that were FDA-approved in their day — GNRH(a) blockers in children with normal development are not even that! I think we are on the upslope of the same roller coaster ride with puberty interventions. We don’t have to play along that novel experimentation is settled science, or that there are no recent examples to learn from.
Rely was a super-absorbent tampon that caused serious bacterial infections, killing 88 American women. Dalkon Shield killed at least 18 American women, and after it was pulled from the US market, the remaining stock was sold at a discount to developing nations as a cheap birth control option, whose use worldwide then went unstudied, so we don’t know how many more women it injured. Both of these were in the 1970s-early 80s.
so not reversible?
But they said! No harm! No problem!
The no harm, reversible messaging came from medical educators. Do not know if they have changed their tunes of late, but perhaps this should be considered.
Puberty blockers should be outlawed except for use In precocious puberty .
These kids are guinea pigs.
I don’t find this report particularly amazing, but it at least it gives it an authoritative spin.
The purpose of “puberty blockers” is to “block puberty”.
Puberty is the period when your sexual organs mature.
Therefore the sex organs remain immature.
Forever.
I’m not sure this is remarkable.
Devoid of all hGC, the organs atrophy, which is already well-understood in endocrinology. It happens to bodybuilders taking Steroids, because the excess testosterone shuts off hGC.
However, they have fully mature penises, and can orgasm.
That’s the rub, so to speak.
As 95%+ go on to estrogen which is expected to sterilize them in a few years, according to the consent forms, this is an added worry but they are already on a conveyor belt for lifelong sterility once they take the puberty blockers.
Why are you obsessed with the genitals of boys?
Why there weren’t tests like these done before these drugs were handed out like candy, with adherents giving statements that had no bearing on any factual data available to them or anyone else that the drugs effects were reversible.
It's not their children being harmed so what's the harm? Bastards. The lot of them.
Puberty saved this queer child's life, puberty blockers repeatedly labeled covert conversion therapy.
All of the preliminary studies on puberty blockers used to halt normal-timed puberty remind me of the Rely tampon and the Dalkon Shield IUD. Both were supposed advances that were FDA-approved in their day — GNRH(a) blockers in children with normal development are not even that! I think we are on the upslope of the same roller coaster ride with puberty interventions. We don’t have to play along that novel experimentation is settled science, or that there are no recent examples to learn from.
Rely was a super-absorbent tampon that caused serious bacterial infections, killing 88 American women. Dalkon Shield killed at least 18 American women, and after it was pulled from the US market, the remaining stock was sold at a discount to developing nations as a cheap birth control option, whose use worldwide then went unstudied, so we don’t know how many more women it injured. Both of these were in the 1970s-early 80s.