I think far more people have been immensely helped than harmed by taking puberty blockers, which is how we decide what medical procedures are worth doing.
No, though it does seem surprising. How long can kids stay on puberty blockers and have that still apply? (Perhaps a limit isn't known, but the studies must all have ended at some point.)
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Blockers only started being under fire when they started using them for this. They had been used for early puberty for decades before that. They don't make you sterile because they stop the signals that cause hormones to be made in the body, they're not sex hormones themselves
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Thanks. I nevertheless wonder how much you can postpone development and still have all the pieces work together correctly. As for the controversy, compare to human growth hormone: nobody objects to giving it to kids deficient in it, but other uses are attacked.
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