“Parents say to us, ‘What do you really know about the long-term effects of puberty blockers? Who has really studied the children for 20 years?’” said Diane Ehrensaft, the UCSF clinic’s mental health director. “We say, ‘That’s what we plan to do.’”https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/03/big-gaps-in-transgender-research-a-team-at-ucsf-is-working-to-change-that/ …
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No big deal about destroying fertility for an identity--an identity that may be only temporary. Ehrensaft goes on to say that this group of kids (pre-puberty kids) are incredibly altruistic. They are happy to give up fertility in order to adopt a child in the future.
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It's a common theme with some of these activists that trans-identified middle schoolers are MORE mature than their "cis" counterparts--even when their puberty has been blocked (also possibly delaying brain maturation).pic.twitter.com/MWiPwHAG7O
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