I get not wanting kids to make permanent changes to their body before they're old enough to have a better sense of what they want, but aren't puberty blockers reversible? If a kid wants to transition and it can be undone if they change their mind, what's the harm?
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The judge actually goes into the extensive evidence about effects of puberty blockers in their decision: https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Bell-v-Tavistock-Judgment.pdf …
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If you manipulate hormones during puberty, all kinds of development issues can occur into adulthood which can not be reversed with current medicine.
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You’re wrong. And the medical community can’t agree on the long term affects, so how could any child give informed consent?
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My impression from reading the (incredibly politicized in both directions) research is that long-term use of puberty blockers can cause medical problems, short-term probably okay, we can almost def design better puberty blockers/vastly reduce harms if we invest there
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Also, given that going on blockers means you’re almost certainly going to benefit from HRT, it might just be best to skip the blocker stage and start on actual hormone therapy, which we know is very safe, vs the moderate unknowns of delaying puberty well into the teen years.
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Injecting artificial hormones to prevent a young person's body from developing is not reversible. Even full grown men who increase their test levels with artificial hormones (steroids) for a short time end up suffering from unbalanced hormone levels for the rest of their lives.
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No, they are not really 'reversible'. Using them as intended generally results in permanent changes and deficits, including sterility and dangerous health problems later in life.
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No, they're not reversible. Puberty won't just happen again, it's a very important and time-based developmental event. I'm not saying there will be no partial return to the innate phenotype by changing chemicals but no, development should not be thought of as something we control
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The converse is also true (or else they wouldn't be trying to block puberty)--once someone has attained secondary sex characteristics, hormone treatment and therapy doesn't literally change their sex, though it shifts what parameters it can in that direction.
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You're right. A classmate of mine was on them until 9th grade so she'd grow to be over 5 ft tall. Perfectly safe from what she told me, and not something any doc made a big deal about
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