Gillick is for when there is a clear treatment pathway that has well-understood benefits and potential downsides. Children were being given treatment when it wasn't understood what the effects were, which impacts whether informed consent can be given.
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But, that doesn't describe PBs, which have been prescribed for decades and are well understood?
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Replying to @e_urq @AbsMcFabs and
Do children need to demonstrate Gillick competence to be treated with the same drugs at the same ages for early onset of puberty?
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Replying to @e_urq @AbsMcFabs and
Early onset puberty is totally different to gd. Children younger than 8 are prescribed pb's but they are stopped in time to allow natural puberty to proceed. Blockers are used in gd to stop puberty happening at all, therein lies the problem as its an important time for a child/1
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During puberty multiple physical changes take place as well as chemical changes in the brain.. it is during this period if left alone most dysphoric kids will come to terms with their sexuality, many realising they are lesbian or gay.. not trans/2
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Can I suggest you check out the site of the organisation that put forward a very reasoned argument at the recent HC case in the UK.. there is lots of well balanced information on there.. links to a variety of topics are in the menuhttps://www.transgendertrend.com/current-evidence/ …
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Replying to @Imagine123 @AbsMcFabs and
I'm sorry but I'm familiar with the quality of evidence on this website. Its consistentlu poor quality is, in part, what led me to give up my denial and decide to transition as someone who was once quite sympathetic to so-called "gender critical" ideas.
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Sure Evan, sure. Funnily enough, the evidence of TT shows the same as the Tavistock study showed once they finally released it, 5 years late. Their evidence was also deemed of high enough quality that they were accepted as an intervenor in the JR, unlike Mermaids & Stonewall.
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I asked above- possibly was asking someone else- what makes you think that this means puberty blockers "cause" gender transition (in GD children only), rather than the more likely hypothesis that blockers are used rarely, in cases of children who are highly likely to be trans?
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Replying to @e_urq @AbsMcFabs and
We know blockers don't cause gender transition because they don't cause it in precocious puberty. So your belief is: It's more likely that something about the blockers causes it in GD children than that the kids getting blockers are about 98% likely to be trans.
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That seems, to put it mildly, highly unlikely. But you don't have anything to support it, pointing to the numbers themselves as if they make your case more strongly than the complete opposite which is more logical and more likely.
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