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[–]luckystar 40 insightful - 1 fun40 insightful - 0 fun41 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Yeah, we actually have a ton of people who were harmed by Lupron used for precocious puberty, endometriosis and other conditions.

The other thing is that the blockers can't be taken indefinitely, it's just used to "kick the can down the road" for a few years. These kids end up taking cross sex hormones at 13~16, and they're permanently sterile (since they never develop the gametes their body was going to produce naturally). It still boils down to chemically castrating children.

[–]Radfem_the_Hun 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The other thing is that the blockers can't be taken indefinitely, it's just used to "kick the can down the road" for a few years.

And yet the BMJ's Journal of Medical Ethics (lol?!?!) are writing hypothetical case studies for non-binary adults who would want to take puberty blockers indefinitely: https://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2020/07/24/medethics-2019-106012

When I started reading that case study, I thought it was about a real person and couldn't believe there hadn't been more fuss over this in GC spaces before. Thankfully it's just a hypothetical case, but the fact that they're writing hypotheticals like this in favor of keeping someone permanently prepubescent is just sickening. "Medical ethics" my toe.

[–]PlayCardsNotPeople 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

How can we get people to take unnecessary medicine for the rest of their lives?
- Love, the pharma companies

[–]MonstrousRegiment 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"Medical ethics" my toe.

Hilarious. And I love your username!

[–]blahblahgcer 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

When I thought I was nonbinary, this would've been my dream... So glad I got out of that insanity