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[–]iamonlyoneman[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I never heard of that person and the fluff piece you linked says nothing about his medical history. I also had a quick search and found nothing about it affecting boys so that it increases their height (girls though for sure it does*n't). I found one thing on a zoo website talking about possibly affecting long bone end closure in cats and that it may vary by species.

I actually looked for a few minutes and found nothing related, and it's also counterintuitive, which sets off my BS detector. Unless you can find something better than a picture of a crazy person standing next to a crazy person, I'm gonna have to throw a flag on that claim.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Lol, you think you'll find anything helpful on google about this?

https://genderanalysis.net/2019/12/recent-progress-in-height-management-for-trans-adolescents/

You are wrong about girls.

Previous studies were all on kids with precocious puberty (before the age of 9) and blockers do work to increase height in those kids as stunted growth is one of the outcomes of that conditions.

In older girls who decide they are trans, and would have had normal puberty and height, growth is stunted. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9218463/Puberty-blockers-impair-height-growth-bone-density-data-reveals.html

The fact is these kids are being experimented on and the results are only just starting to come in.

Right now the best way to see what the effects are is to find kids who have been through the protocol and judge it with your own eyes.