UK's National Health Service changes trans guidance to reflect reality

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[–]greenbeans[S] 21 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 0 fun22 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Basically, the NHS is no longer telling parents and children that puberty blockers are harmless. They now admit that they can cause lasting physical and mental harm.

The article rightly points out that this is going to be pretty upsetting news for children and parents who were previously told the drugs were a consequence free 'pause button'.

[–]Omina_Sentenziosa 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Their previous stance was completely idiotic.

Without bringing my personal feelings on blockers in the conversation, let's be realistic for a second: every single medicine in existence has possible secondary effects. Every single one, even the ones that are considered the most harmless, let alone the ones that change your physiology and stop functionality and the ones that are still very much experimental.

But for some reasons, blockers were totally safe and there was no chance in Hell they were going to bring long-lasting problems to developing children? It's exactly like taking candies!!!

Give me a break.

[–]wicklesnarf 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You're so right. Even the most natural medicines. A friend of mine was trying to eat healthier and started making fresh smoothies every morning for breakfast. She ended up having horrible light-headedness/dizziness, eventually one day fainted and slammed her head into her bathroom counter on the way down. Lots of tests trying to figure out why her blood pressure was so low. It turned out to be the GINGER she was putting in her breakfast smoothies. She was just buying ginger root from the produce section of her grocery store, along with her fruits and veggies. It never crossed her mind it could hurt her, it even took her doctors weeks to consider it could be the cause.

How can anyone think these powerful drugs aren't having serious effects on their kids' bodies? It feels like the over-prescription of psych meds like Ritalin 10-20 years ago, over again. All to line the pockets of the pharmaceutical industry.

[–]0BCB9A795AE259 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I am glad that NHS changed the description to more accurate. I bet that in 10 years or maybe even sooner, there be a massive wave of claims against the trust from the grown up transitioners. The damage has been done, and I can imagine that many parents took their kids for treatment in good faith and just by having trust in NHS stuff.

Underfunded mental health services + "simple" answer to complex mental health and socioeconomical problems = increase in adolescent transitioners.

Medicalisation of issues must be giving young people the feeling of their problems viewed as serious enough. Transition is also giving them the sense of community, the general aim of all actions and the falsely stable sense of identity. No doctor will ever put "societal misogyny" as a diagnosis. It will always be hysteria, anorexia nervosa, BPD, depression, or now transgenderism.

Visits in gender clinics should be prefaced with compulsory module on gender dynamics throuought the history with an assessment. Not to mention company of the usual CBT and family therapy etc, but as far as I know that was one of the problems in Tavistock, the clinicians were making decisions straight after first visit.

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Why doesn't the link work for me?