Gender Dysphoria thread: At the same time(2017) that American medical societies were presenting pubertal blockade(PB) as settled science and the preferred management of GD, many legitimate concerns regarding PB were being raised in the medical literature. >>
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Here is an article from the medical literature (2017)summarizing some of those concerns. >> https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2444866417301101 … >>
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1- use of PB has only recently begun so many questions are still unanswered. 2- many professionals remain critical about the PB regimen 3- teams embracing the Dutch PB protocol expressed a general sense of unease due to lack of long term outcome studies. >>
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4- in early puberty the individual is not sufficiently mature or authentically free to make such a decision. 5- it is not possible to make a certain diagnosis of GD in adolescence, b/c in this phase gender identity is still fluctuating. >>
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6- PB may inhibit “spontaneous” formation of a consistent gender identity, which is described. 7- considering the high percentage of desisters, early medicalization may be premature and inappropriate. >>
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8- research on the effects in bone, growth and brain development is limited so don’t know long term effects. 9- impact on sexuality not studied; PB may prevent adolescents from having age appropriate socio-sexual experiences. >>
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10- early interventions may interfere with the patients exploration of sexual orientation. 11- suppression of puberty suggests the patient is deprived of adolescence, the crucial time to deal with identity issues. >>
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12- PB freezes youngsters in a prolonged childhood, secluding them from certain aspects of reality and isolating them from peer groups. >>
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The above are all excerpts from this paper, published in the medical literature. >>
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The management of adolescents with GD is not settled science. All have a right to be concerned about the science, alarmed at the suppression of further research, and outraged at the application of this unsettled science to children. ///
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