Children to stop getting puberty blockers at gender identity clinics, says NHS England
**Confirmation comes after public consultation and decision to close Gender Identity Development Service in London**...
Children to stop getting puberty blockers at gender identity clinics, says NHS England
**Confirmation comes after public consultation and decision to close Gender Identity Development Service in London**...
Already in place in Sweden since a few years back:
socialstyrelsen.se/…/uppdaterade-rekommendationer…
Complete insanity to subject children to life altering therapy without comprehensive evidentiary basis. It’s the right call.
Complete insanity to subject children to life altering therapy without comprehensive evidentiary basis. It’s the right call.
Says the person who clearly hasn’t looked at the safety, efficacy and reversibility of puberty blockers.
So giving the child medication that’s been comprehensively studied on an evidentiary basis and found to be safe, so that they might delay a life-altering thing until they’re old enough to decide is “complete insanity”?
But denying that safe medication to them to force them to go through a puberty that might not be in accordance with their gender identity, possibly deeply psychologically (and indirectly even physically sometimes) traumatising them. That’s “sanity”?
You know what’s complete insanity? Allowing people without any knowledge on the subject to think their opinions matter more than doctors’.
Except there is, they’ve been widely used for decades. (Mainly for precocious puberty for cis people.)
We have even longitudinal studies about the long term safety.
We also have research showing endocrine intervention is most times more effective than psychiatric medication to trans people.
That’s the medical consensus. And it’s being challenged by non-medical experts claiming they know the state of the literature without having read it or without having been educated on the subject, because they have some sort of internalised “icky” feeling towards trans people that populist politicians keep exploiting.
Wake up and read the science
They didn’t even link any science.
They linked an article in Swedish saying how the bureaucrats are afraid.
There’s nothing scientific about their link.
It’s essentially the same thing tobacco companies kept trying to do for decades “no no we don’t have enough science yet, we can’t say that conclusively, no no, the science isn’t in yet” despite mountains of evidence showing smoking is harmful.
It’s the same thing now with trans healthcare. They like to chant “There’s no evidence” while ignoring the actual evidence, of which there is a metric fuckton of