who would have thought shortening puberty could have been detrimental….
This is good news, no child should have this pushed onto them until they are 18 and can properly decide for themselves.
For cis children too or just trans children?
Given how long the queue is to even get into the gender clinic i don’t think this will affect many people, at least not before the Cass report is thrown out like the shit that it is.
Going through puberty can be very distressing for trans children experiencing dysphoria already, and it makes later transition much more difficult. Imagine for a moment, you’re a young man, you’ve spent years living as a boy, all your friends and peers at school know you as a boy. Then you start growing breasts suddenly. People are asking questions. The bullying starts. Your entire world is turned upside down.
If you were a cis child, you’d be able to get hormone treatment from your GP, and nobody would bat an eye. In fact, if your GP refused your care it’d probably be a minor scandal. But because you’re trans, you’re now banned from receiving that exact same medicines.
This can literally kill them, these blockers are life saving.
I tired to kill myself at 15, at 16, 17, 19, twice at 21 and self harmed constantly before I got Gender affirming care.
I cannot express how heart ripping having your own body work against your identity is, it’s like having your parent cut off your fingers, it’s wrong, it’s like my body shouldn’t be like this why is it doing this to me.
Whatever you do definitely do not check who Dr Cass follows on twitter.
It is very painful having to see this being discussed constantly. Reliving the trauma of the childhood closet and the waiting list over and over again
No-one is giving kids treatment at this age without their fucking consent.
If you ask them what they want to be when they grow up, their goals aren’t a career, it’s just Alive.
That’s it, that is were we fucking are aim for now, because alive is no-longer a fucking guarantee.
I don’t see how this helps Trans Kids. The vast majority of studies report that puberty blockers and gender affirming care caused more help than harm to Trans Kids.
This is the same environment of fear and biased reporting that led to section 28. I fear the same will come for Trans Kids.
Common sense, they can’t consent to sex, drink, adopt, drive, etc and people actually think they should be able to make a life altering decision when their brain isn’t even remotely close to fully formed. Clown world.
Edit: To those who struggle with reading in the replies the title very clearly says children not teenagers. How any rational adult can think critically for even 5 minutes and reach the conclusion that this isn’t a good change is astounding. This’ll be looked back on just like lobotomies, Reddit is truly something. I’m referring to children only, teenagers are a desperate issue. Should’ve made this clear.
It’s honestly a difficult thing to get right. I do believe in caution so long as that caution is endorsed by the medical profession. But if we are pausing something like this, we NEED to invest much more in support services like counseling. At the end of the day, irrespective of what you believe, we’re talking about vulnerable kids who are at a much higher risk of depression, self harm etc.
Very sensible. Testimonial from people who’ve endured this treatment should be enough to cause even the most ardent advocate of this treatment to pause.
Good. It’s absolutely wild this was happening in the first place.
The trans issue is so insanely politicised that medical safeguarding has basically gone out the window the last few years. Seems like common sense is finally starting to prevail.
Seems sensible, if more research is needed, then this makes sense.
God forbid kids go through something natural
The Cass report is a watershed moment for childrens gender care.
It was always going to be impossible to justify Sandiford continuing as it was after Cass- until quality research backing puberty blockers is conducted.
The amount of lies about the Cass report spread by activists on reddit and twitter have been frankly shocking- but in the real world you can’t smear an objective and high quality clinical review.
It has the backing of the BMJ and the RCP. The methodology is sound.
It will have ripple effects far beyond the borders of the UK.
I do wonder if suicide and self harm increases as a result, if the people who pushed for this to happen will be campaigning to help those children.
What? Why would someone want to prevent their kids from going through puberty?
For children is the part that should be focused on.
Is that just for transgender children or also for precocious puberty? Article doesn’t really say.
In any case this is something the country will come to regret and, no doubt, act like it never happened in a decade or so. This determination to make the lives of vulnerable children worse by cutting off their access to life-saving medication is just cruel.
Biggest pot country gonna talk about puberty blockers l o l
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who would have thought shortening puberty could have been detrimental….
This is good news, no child should have this pushed onto them until they are 18 and can properly decide for themselves.
For cis children too or just trans children?
Given how long the queue is to even get into the gender clinic i don’t think this will affect many people, at least not before the Cass report is thrown out like the shit that it is.
Going through puberty can be very distressing for trans children experiencing dysphoria already, and it makes later transition much more difficult. Imagine for a moment, you’re a young man, you’ve spent years living as a boy, all your friends and peers at school know you as a boy. Then you start growing breasts suddenly. People are asking questions. The bullying starts. Your entire world is turned upside down.
If you were a cis child, you’d be able to get hormone treatment from your GP, and nobody would bat an eye. In fact, if your GP refused your care it’d probably be a minor scandal. But because you’re trans, you’re now banned from receiving that exact same medicines.
This can literally kill them, these blockers are life saving.
I tired to kill myself at 15, at 16, 17, 19, twice at 21 and self harmed constantly before I got Gender affirming care.
I cannot express how heart ripping having your own body work against your identity is, it’s like having your parent cut off your fingers, it’s wrong, it’s like my body shouldn’t be like this why is it doing this to me.
Whatever you do definitely do not check who Dr Cass follows on twitter.
It is very painful having to see this being discussed constantly. Reliving the trauma of the childhood closet and the waiting list over and over again
No-one is giving kids treatment at this age without their fucking consent.
If you ask them what they want to be when they grow up, their goals aren’t a career, it’s just Alive.
That’s it, that is were we fucking are aim for now, because alive is no-longer a fucking guarantee.
I don’t see how this helps Trans Kids. The vast majority of studies report that puberty blockers and gender affirming care caused more help than harm to Trans Kids.
This is the same environment of fear and biased reporting that led to section 28. I fear the same will come for Trans Kids.
Common sense, they can’t consent to sex, drink, adopt, drive, etc and people actually think they should be able to make a life altering decision when their brain isn’t even remotely close to fully formed. Clown world.
Edit: To those who struggle with reading in the replies the title very clearly says children not teenagers. How any rational adult can think critically for even 5 minutes and reach the conclusion that this isn’t a good change is astounding. This’ll be looked back on just like lobotomies, Reddit is truly something. I’m referring to children only, teenagers are a desperate issue. Should’ve made this clear.
It’s honestly a difficult thing to get right. I do believe in caution so long as that caution is endorsed by the medical profession. But if we are pausing something like this, we NEED to invest much more in support services like counseling. At the end of the day, irrespective of what you believe, we’re talking about vulnerable kids who are at a much higher risk of depression, self harm etc.
Very sensible. Testimonial from people who’ve endured this treatment should be enough to cause even the most ardent advocate of this treatment to pause.
Good. It’s absolutely wild this was happening in the first place.
The trans issue is so insanely politicised that medical safeguarding has basically gone out the window the last few years. Seems like common sense is finally starting to prevail.
Seems sensible, if more research is needed, then this makes sense.
God forbid kids go through something natural
The Cass report is a watershed moment for childrens gender care.
It was always going to be impossible to justify Sandiford continuing as it was after Cass- until quality research backing puberty blockers is conducted.
The amount of lies about the Cass report spread by activists on reddit and twitter have been frankly shocking- but in the real world you can’t smear an objective and high quality clinical review.
It has the backing of the BMJ and the RCP. The methodology is sound.
It will have ripple effects far beyond the borders of the UK.
I do wonder if suicide and self harm increases as a result, if the people who pushed for this to happen will be campaigning to help those children.
What? Why would someone want to prevent their kids from going through puberty?
For children is the part that should be focused on.
Puberty blockers save lives.
[https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116284/documents/HHRG-118-JU10-20230727-SD020.pdf](https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116284/documents/HHRG-118-JU10-20230727-SD020.pdf)
[https://www.thepinknews.com/2020/01/23/puberty-blockers-decrease-suicide-mental-health-problems-transgender-teenagers/](https://www.thepinknews.com/2020/01/23/puberty-blockers-decrease-suicide-mental-health-problems-transgender-teenagers/)
[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32345113/](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32345113/)
[https://www.apa.org/monitor/2023/07/psychologists-preventing-teen-suicide](https://www.apa.org/monitor/2023/07/psychologists-preventing-teen-suicide)
Transphobic science.
Is that just for transgender children or also for precocious puberty? Article doesn’t really say.
In any case this is something the country will come to regret and, no doubt, act like it never happened in a decade or so. This determination to make the lives of vulnerable children worse by cutting off their access to life-saving medication is just cruel.
Biggest pot country gonna talk about puberty blockers l o l