Given that 80 - 95 percent of kids with gender dysphoria outgrow it naturally without puberty blockers how is it in any way shape or form ethical to give them serious drugs that can have lifelong catastrophic health consequences?
Even for the kids that do persist with the dysphoria, the health consequences are so severe is it really worth it for mere vanity? Superficially looking more like the opposite sex is not a greater good than living a long healthy life.
Is it ethical to give people with mental health issues life altering drugs and surgery that will permanently affect their health negatively? Surely it makes more sense to solve the psychological issue instead of chasing after fools gold by changing the body. Also ethically as an individual in a society, if you cripple yourself chasing after a pipe dream and cause yourself to become a burden on others isn't that morally bad? There are disabled and sick people who would love to have a healthy body, that make the best of what they got. It's quite a contrast compared to the trans movement where people are deliberately putting themselves in harms way to change their superficial appearance.
I'm too tired to list all of terrible health consequences of many of the measures taken by people who choose to physically transition, but there are many consequences that get progressively worse the further extremes people go to to modify their body to make it look more similar to the opposite sex.
The Consequences of puberty blockers particularly Lupron
"In addition to preventing the development of secondary sex characteristics, GnRH agonists arrest bone growth, decrease bone accretion, prevent the sex-steroid dependent organization and maturation of the adolescent brain, and inhibit fertility by preventing the development of gonadal tissue and mature gametes for the duration of treatment.
Rosenthal also insists that the effects of Lupron and other such drugs are “100 percent reversible,” a claim the true believers at WPATH support. Is this true? Mounting evidence suggests the answer is no.
If this weren’t enough reason for parents to refuse such treatment for their minor children, Laidlaw says that “what parents should find truly terrifying is the psychological effect of this medication.” Under the traditional treatment for gender dysphoria, which involves “watchful waiting or pursuit of family and individual psychotherapy,” between 80 and 95 percent of adolescent patients outgrow their dysphoria naturally."
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Breast Binding
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Testosterone - Hormone Therapy
"In women, a high level of testosterone was tied to a 37% increased risk for type 2 diabetes and a 51% increased risk for polycystic ovary syndrome."
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Hysterectomy
"However, the Mayo team reported that -- compared to women who hadn't had a hysterectomy -- women who had the procedure experienced an average 14 percent higher risk of abnormal blood fat levels; a 13 percent higher risk for high blood pressure; an 18 percent higher risk for obesity and a 33 percent greater risk for heart disease.
Long-term health issues associated with hysterectomy were especially pronounced for younger women. The study found that women younger than 35 had a 4.6-fold higher risk of congestive heart failure and a 2.5-fold greater risk of coronary artery disease, or a buildup of plaque in the arteries."
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