Transing Children"Hormone blockers are fully reversible" says Mermaids while linking to the NHS statement who says that the effects of hormone blockers are not known.

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[–]Smolders1Cock is god's greatest gift. 38 insightful - 2 fun38 insightful - 1 fun39 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

I'm honestly beginning to think that these medical corporations are downplaying the sometimes disastrous results that stem from the utilisation of these hormone blockers because people experiencing dysphoria will pay insane amounts to solve a problem that could be cheaply solved with actual therapy.

TRA's constantly bring up the argument: "oh transitioning is therapy, shut up!" No, it isn't. This 'therapy' they speak of is just filled with constant reminders that transitioning is available.

Hormone blockers are dangerous as fuck. People need to do research before going through the procedures that use them, because people's lives are being destroyed as a result of them.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

From the perspective of speculators and investment, a therapeutic drug is far more valuable than a cure or talking to a therapist because they can't extract money from those solutions. Hormones and hormone blockers are the ultimate S+ type of medication for the Wall St side of the pharma industry. There is no research cost and they are cheap to make and the customers must take the drugs indefinitely to maintain the desired results.

The indicated use for Lupron is to be given as a single dose in an entire lifetime due to side effects but the gender clinics are prescribing it off label as a therapeutic type drug where the children take it for years. That's like a thousands or millions % increase in profit for a drug which is otherwise only given once in rare edge cases.

[–]kwallio 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Therapy isn't cheap tho. $120 per session, 1 session per week for a year is $6240. I doubt a years supply of Lupron costs that much. On the other hand you don't have to pay for therapy for your whole life.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

yeah but that money goes to a doctor and their staff instead of being filtered through some Wall St stock dividend.

[–]kwallio 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I guess thats true, you can't patent and corporatize ppl talking to each other.

[–]reluctant_commenter 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm honestly beginning to think that these medical corporations are downplaying the sometimes disastrous results that stem from the utilisation of these hormone blockers because people experiencing dysphoria will pay insane amounts to solve a problem that could be cheaply solved with actual therapy.

There is already proof of this happening. Lupron is a good example. Doctors get kickbacks and incentives for recommending "off-label" drugs.

https://www.statnews.com/2017/02/02/lupron-puberty-children-health-problems/

[–]fuck_reddit 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's technically a "therapy," but in the other sense of the word... So they're being willfully obtuse and deceitful when they say "it's a therapy"...