Posted on 03/12/2024 1:10:33 PM PDT by Olog-hai
England’s National Health Service banned the use of puberty blockers for children seeking treatment for gender dysphoria, citing limited research.
Puberty blockers, or gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues (GnRHa), is a class of drugs that suppresses sex hormones in adolescents by continually stimulating the pituitary gland. It will now only be available to children in limited ways, such as clinical trials.
The NHS’s website said, “Puberty blockers (gonadotrophin-releasing hormone analogues) are not available to children and young people for gender incongruence or gender dysphoria because there is not enough evidence of safety and clinical effectiveness.”
NHS England had previously ordered the London-based gender identity clinic at the Tavistock and Portman Trust to shut its doors amid safety concerns. …
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Mass suicide threats in 3..2..1..
Oh well.
One other thing that is wrong in the report is the statement “children seeking treatment for gender dysphoria”, when the only morally correct and ethically correct process would be “parents” seeking help for their children with gender dysphoria.
And, more to the point, it is mental health care that is needed, not radically altering the child’s biologically determind body.
Finally. Cynic that I am I think this decision was motivated by cost savings not because of the health risks of this unoroved therapy.
Oy. Now I have to look up Tanner stage 2, to find out what stage of puberty that is. Guess Jazz Jennings will never have an orgasm, although I’m pretty sure I saw his transgender plastic surgeon warn the kid. If you’ve never experienced one, maybe you won’t miss it.
“Give me what I demand or I’ll hold my breath until I turn blue... or kill myself.”
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