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[–]INeedSomeTimeAsexual Ally 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The most bizarre thing about puberty blockers is instead of testing it properly until using it without giving it too much thought, they just rolled with it and if anyone had objections you were called a hateful transphobe.

Honestly, I was thinking about this shit a while ago and concluded that experimenting on people, who are considered to be trans, is hateful and transphobic itself! Regardless if these people are actually trans but somehow it's super acceptable to experiment on mentally vulnerable people. It's so sick.

[–]reluctant_commenter[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Honestly, I was thinking about this shit a while ago and concluded that experimenting on people, who are considered to be trans, is hateful and transphobic itself!

Yup. One of the #1 rules of human subjects research is that the participants need to be fully informed about the risks of participating. That principle was completely, flagrantly disregarded in the case of puberty blockers. I know there is a lot of talk about how children can't consent to puberty blocker experimentation because they're minors, which is true, but more generally, people can't consent to puberty blocker studies regardless of their age because these studies-- the vast, vast majority of them, if not all-- do not inform participants about the risks of the drugs they're taking. I mean, we've known for years that Lupron chemically castrates adults... there's no excuse to not inform participants of that. But so many detrans people said they were never informed, and so many trans people either never heard of it or deny it-- and I'm sure it's tempting to deny because it's horrifying to imagine that that could have really happened to you!

Regardless if these people are actually trans but somehow it's super acceptable to experiment on mentally vulnerable people. It's so sick.

And yeah that's all the more reason. Shit's heartbreaking.