Yoko's Asterisk 🏳️‍⚧
"These medications are well studied and have been used safely since the late 1980s to pause puberty in adolescents with gender dysphoria. They have been used routinely for even longer in children who enter puberty too early and in adults with a range of other medical conditions."
May 5, 2023 at 1:13amWeb
Show threadYoko's Asterisk 🏳️‍⚧May 5, 2023

"But despite the evidence for the safety and efficacy of puberty-delaying treatments, some lawmakers across the U.S. have spread false claims about the drugs and other gender-affirming treatments as part of their efforts to ban or severely restrict access to health care for transgender people."

- Scientific American spreading some facts: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-are-puberty-blockers-and-how-do-they-work/

What Are Puberty Blockers, and How Do They Work?

Decades of data support the use and safety of puberty-pausing medications, which give transgender adolescents and their families time to weigh important medical decisions

Scientific American
Show threadDavid Fi&erMay 5, 2023
@charliejane one of these days some idiot is going to fuck up their restrictions and ban all hormone therapies, including insulin and synthroid.
Show threadAbe DraytonMay 5, 2023

@djfiander @charliejane

They're OK with that, because they don't intend the law to apply to everyone equally.

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds, but does not protect."

-Frank Wilhoit, composer

Show threadDudley of Yesterzine May 5, 2023
@djfiander @charliejane Given the uk government semi recently suggested banning all encryption. (Yes, literally) then I would bet on you being right.
Show threadGraveScarecrowMay 5, 2023
@charliejane This is excellent. Of course, the bigoted aren't going to listen to any actual facts, but this may sway the merely ignorant.