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
Looked at without the politics, gender dysphoria is an amazing success story. From the early days of psychiatry when it was assumed to be curable by talk therapy, through early experiments in transition (leasing to the knowledge that transition is a successful treatment)...
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...to today when it can be successfully diagnosed at younger ages, preventing nearly all of the negative social and emotional effects, it's just a miracle of evidence based medicine advancing and helping patients.
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All I want is for GD to be held to the same standards of any other medical condition, and its treatments evaluated in the same way other treatments are. I am willing to be wrong, and to change my mind, but it has to be based on evidence, not prejudice.
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