Transing ChildrenNew Mayo Clinic study finds mild to severe atrophy in testes of boys on puberty blockers

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[–]Three_oneFourWanted for thought crimes in countless ideologies 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

hmm, it's almost like taking drugs that prevent sex hormones from making someone undergo puberty make them not have the changes that puberty is supposed to make happen.

Was this ever a question? This is literally the whole point of puberty blockers according to their very name

[–]PenseePansyBio-Sex or Bust 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, I don't get why this doesn't go without saying. That "blocking puberty" = locking these kids into permanent prepubescence, i.e., early childhood. Developmental disability by design. How many people (particularly parents) think that THAT sounds like a good idea?

And even beyond the damage that it does to their reproductive systems, there's my main worry: what's it doing to their brains?

[–]Three_oneFourWanted for thought crimes in countless ideologies 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah. The big argument in favor of puberty blockers is that if the child wants to go through with transition, they won't have the "damage" of having gone through the "wrong" puberty. Aside from the fact that this sounds like a conspiracy to make sure they don't develop as their sex would dictate and thus are way more likely to feel like they don't fit in as the sex they are since they missed puberty, I don't see how they can possibly hope to go through with their correct puberty after missing it. They claim that you can't undo puberty, but that would imply that you can't do puberty late either.

[–]NutterButterFlutterStill waving into the void[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

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[–]Q-Continuum-kin 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The claims of reversibility were never based on anything other than wishful thinking.

[–]automoderatorHuman-Exclusionary Radical Overlord[M] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

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