Repackage the social and gender problems typical of young people on the autism spectrum as #WrongBodyism, and puberty blockers/Lupron make a magical reappearance as the cure for what ails ya. Where's the @chicagotribune now? (This article: May 2009.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/health/chi-autism-lupron-may21-story.html …
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Something else hasn't changed: "It works" testimonials. "Several parents of children on Lupron told the Tribune it works, saying their children are better-behaved & show cognitive improvement. 'It was an obvious, undeniable result.'" Yet the Trib still called it "junk science."
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Some parents weren't so sure: "We all want our children to get better. We love our kids so much, & you want to believe the interventions are making a difference...a lot of these therapies have no science behind them. You are using your child as a guinea pig." Guinea pigs.
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That’s shocking - we are treating children as lab rats
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Given the high incidence of those with autism being put on Lupron it's hard to see it as anything other than eugenics.
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It's the new lobotomy.
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Let's not forget how the godfather of puberty blockers, Dr. Norman Spack, was still selling the myth in 2012, something that helped to suck me into a medical transition. https://web.archive.org/web/20130324102716/http://thephoenix.com/Boston/life/142583-how-norman-spack-transformed-the-way-we-treat-tran/?page=8#TOPCONTENT …pic.twitter.com/jXSGJtYWDZ
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The very idea that one's own body (after all, we ARE our bodies, not disembodied gender wraiths) should be endorsed as "alien"....
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