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[–]gparmesan 88 insightful - 1 fun88 insightful - 0 fun89 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The flippant way that allies call puberty blockers harmless/safe/reversible is wild. They couldn't even name the drugs being used, but they are willing to share memes and Buzzfeed articles that make these claims with no facts or evidence to back it up. It is bound to cause a backlash to some extent.. personally, it's made me lose a shit ton of respect for friends and colleagues that have abandoned common sense in order to be a better ally

[–]luckystar 40 insightful - 1 fun40 insightful - 0 fun41 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 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 -  (1 child)

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.

[–]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