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[–]Wanderingthehalls 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think the cognitive dissonance around puberty blockers is insane. I follow gymnastics and figure-skating, especially the women's fields. Both are sports where teenagers can manage feats that adult women can't because our bone density and healthy body fat/muscle ratios as adults make certain jumps, like a quad jump in figure skating, likely impossible for adult women. In February during the winter Olympics, the Russian women's figure skating team was all teenage girls doing multiple quad jumps and there was a LOT of concern from skating enthusiasts about these girls long term health, including a lot of discussion around whether or not they are being put on Lupron to slow their adult development and how that will contribute to their long-term health problems that often start for these girls in their late teens.

Every single person who commented on on the use of Lupron to delay puberty in figure-skating/gymnastics was aware of how dangerous they potentially are to the long-term health of these athletes. Yet the same posters, would often have trans banners or 'protect trans kids' in their avatars or bios. It was utterly bizarre to me to see that these people fully understand the dangers of these drugs but are still gung-ho about their use for kids who claim to be the opposite gender as their sex.