Posted on 07/27/2022 5:37:43 AM PDT by Red Badger
Puberty blockers, known as gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) substances, received a warning from U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials earlier this month, saying the drug could cause brain swelling, loss of vision, and serious risks for children injecting the hormone.
Officials said a plausible association between using puberty blockers and pseudotumor cerebri, which displays symptoms similar to a brain tumor, was identified in six young girls between the ages of 5 and 12.
“Five were undergoing treatment for central precocious puberty and one for transgender care,” FDA officials report. “The onset of pseudotumor cerebri symptoms ranged from three to 240 days after GnRH agonist initiation.”
Such symptoms in the patients included visual disturbances, headaches, and vomiting. Other effects GnRH agonists caused were an increase in blood pressure, brain swelling, and abducens neuropathy.
A spokesperson from the FDA told Formulary Watch the cases were considered clinically serious and determined that a warning should be added to all GnRH agonist products approved for pediatric patients.
“Although the mechanism by which GnRH agonists may lead to development of pseudotumor cerebri has not been elucidated, and patients with CPP may have a higher baseline risk of developing pseudotumor cerebri compared with children without CPP,” the spokesperson said. “This potential serious risk associated with GnRH agonists justifies inclusion in product labeling.”
Puberty blockers and hormones have come under fire again after President Joe Biden’s U.S. Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine asserted that the U.S. should not limit youth access to so-called “gender-affirming care.”
“Gender affirming care is life-saving, medically necessary, age-appropriate, and a critical tool for health care providers,” Levine said. “As a pediatrician, when it comes to making sure kids are healthy and happy, I know how important care that affirms someone’s true identity can be.”
However, Florida’s Department of Health has argued the opposite of Levine’s claims, saying that due to the lack of conclusive evidence, and the potential for long-term and irreversible effects, doctors should not prescribe children 18 years old and younger puberty blockers or hormone therapy.
“Based on the currently available evidence ‘encouraging mastectomy, ovariectomy, uterine extirpation, penile disablement, tracheal shave, the prescription of hormones which are out of line with the genetic make-up of the child, or puberty blockers, are all clinical practices which run an unacceptably high risk of doing harm,'” Florida’s Department of Health wrote in a memo.
Yet Levine claims every major medical association agrees with the comments about “gender-affirming” care saving lives, according to Fox News.
Jeremy Redfern, a Florida Health Department spokesperson, denounced Levine’s so-called data.
“It’s an appeal to authority that is in stark contrast to the best available evidence,” Redfern said.
He said while the state’s Health Department is following the evidence, the federal government is following the eminence.
Democrat Kiddie Rapers want the babies butchered and the children mutilated.
We are back in the age of Thalidomide and Lobotomies.
The treatments today are different, and the ills we are trying to mitigate are different, but the Witch Doctor approach to medicine is still the same.
Must not be getting enough kickback$ from this drug. I’m gue$$ing there’s a preferred alternative drug.
The vile schizoid “physicians” who perform these abominations and cruelities are licensed by State Boards of Medical Examiners and are often appointed professorships at American medical schools. It will take a mighty effort to root out this rot and those that support it.
Harsh, I know, but ... If death were a side effect I’d be OK with that. We don’t need these stupid people in our country. But these side effects will only serve to disable them, so that we’ll be supporting their freakish lives with our tax dollars from now ‘til Kingdom Come.
When Mom and Dad have to take their brain-dead, blind & mutilated trans-child back into the family home...in order to provide lifelong support for the he-she-it blob...maybe they’ll rethink their original decision “supporting” their child’s trans-change.
Nah...probably not.
Child abuse.
The parents of these kids need to be injected with hormones until their brains swell. Or shot. My God...a 5 year old! Who would do this to a 5 year old? What doctor forgot their oath to do no harm? I am just sickened by this.
They will be depriving the kids of wet dreams and hand held pleasures.
This is demonic & Satanic. The US has gone to Hell.
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