Medicine is not a hard science, but the people I'm going to block aren't the people doing science, they're people spewing hateful bullshit about puberty blockers being child abuse (while denying trans people's existence at the same time) under the cover of science.
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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You don't have to wonder whether the pieces still work together properly after giving a kid puberty blockers for enough time to develop a strong sense of gender identity and decide what to do, because it's well established that they do.
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So how much time is "enough"? (I can well believe that a year of delay is fine, given that puberty varies more than that with nutrition; but I've known plenty of people to dither longer than that over much less consequential decisions.)
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