Ban on children’s puberty blockers to be enforced in private sector in England

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1. At present rate of seeing new patients trans children can expect a first appointment in 37 years. Good job they are banning alternatives.

   Say what you want about Viktor Orbán, at least he has the decency to be honest about his revulsion towards us and his desire to oppress. This? Destroying trans kids lives whilst shedding crocodile tears? It’s pathetic.

   Germany, Austria and Switzerland have just reviewed healthcare for trans youth and have come to the polar opposite conclusion to Cass. This is what happens when you don’t disregard all research that acknowledges the impossibility double blinding puberty.

   Edit: not feeding the sealions today.

2. You can tell when reddit isn’t as big as it describes itself to be when you see the same usernames on these threads demanding children become involved with this issue. 

3. F in chat for the mods who’ll have to supervise this thread.

4. Is being exclusively wielded as a hammer to take away minority groups healthcare not bothering any of the bureaucrats in these institutions?

   I had to get my hrt from DIY places 2 years ago due to them doing similar things, apparently in the name of “safety” too lol.

5. This is unsurprising if they’re deemed to be dangerous due to not being fully reversible, etc.

   Ultimately we should trust the science. The [Cass report](https://cass.independent-review.uk/home/publications/final-report/) is a start on that.

6. It’s so weird that in real life people seem to have rational conversations about this and common sense prevails. But if you come on reddit and read the comments on a post like this, it looks like the world is upside down.

7. Does anyone actually care that this leads to these children becoming prepubescent adults with the brain development of a child? How could they possibly make an adult decision when their brain has not matured?

8. Black market has been the way to go for a very long time. Hate to see safety is being thrown out of the window. Good job UK gov, living up to the tale as old as time. We’re scum.

9. Glad it’s blocked. One of the youngsters in my family has been going through a tough time with this sort of thing lately.

   From the ages of 14-17 she wanted to be a boy, dressed, acted, even changed her name (not legally but to family and friends). She refused to be acknowledged as a female/woman in any shape or form. Then since she was 18 to present (she’s 20 now), she’s rediscovered herself hence me referring to her as a she/her. She’s more accepting of what she is, which is basically a very tomboy women. You’ll never see her in a dress or have hair anything longer than basically a crew cut but she still has that femininity way. Most people looking at her would call her a butch lesbian type even though she is very slim but I can see why. Why she changed her mind is something she will only know but how many kids go through this as well?

   Imagine what would have happened if she were given puberty blockers and the troubles that would have caused for her?

   So for me puberty blockers shouldn’t be given unless there’s really a need for them and should be a case by case basis.

10. The way that people say it’s so easy for children to transition shows easily scaremongering lies about the trans community have spread around our society.

11. This Cass saga has shown the arse of those very specific people who were pretending their gender skepticism allegedly started and ended with minors. The “*don’t care what you do, just don’t involve kids*” crowd. Turns out they do care because they’re treating this like the death knell for “the trans ideology” en masse. [We already have politicians now repealing support for trans people at large](https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/04/11/wes-streeting-labour-trans-women/).

12. The contradictory, categeorically asserted statements in this thread strongly suggests that puberty blockers really are still an experimental treatment whose effects aren’t fully known.

13. People looking to transition will illegally obtain the meds, without medical supervision / support.

    A rise in trans suicides a people can’t get what they need.

    Fucking clown show.

14. Oh boy, I hope there’s no boys or girls who go through a spot of precocious puberty at the age of 6 or something because we invented a really good hormonal blocking medication to help with that.

15. There was a famous American transgender woman whom went on puberty blockers extremely early. This meant her penis remained small and she never developed a libido. When it came to surgery she had such a little penis for surgeons to work on that the construction was botched. 

    So even if you’re quite pro trans healthcare puberty blockers have to be smartly prescribed otherwise you might induce ordeals like the one above.