Belgium and Netherlands call for puberty blocker restrictions following Cass Review

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/04/13/belgium-netherlands-puberty-blocker-restrictions/

by Noura_Fatnasi

25 comments

  1. All the while the author of the report is backpedaling fast on the report she led, but the damage has been done. This will hurt so many people… 😭

  3. Can we please stop using vulnerable minorities as scapegoats and political pawns? So many people would be harmed if they stopped offering care.

  4. Can we please stop posting news from this anglo shitrag which is always trying to start the next culture war.

    I mean, honestly, after their abysmal brexit coverage and culpability in spreading their big lie day after day I’d think people here’d be done with it.

  5. Great. So they went for immigrants first, now trans are up for harassment, gays rights are probably next, then women back into the kitchen, and finally it’s the handicapped, atheists, and anyone else who is “dangerous to children and family norms” whatever that means to the populist idiots trying to distract from their incompetence.

  6. Blocking the natural growth of children is bad, who would have thought? And they needed studies to realise that lol

  7. I just don’t understand how come the same people who want to raise the age of consent from 16 to 18 also support giving puberty blockers to 14-16 year olds.

    Maybe I’m just an old disgusting boomer, but this seems contradictory to me.

  8. Cass Review was commissioned for a political goal and is full of scientific half-truths, cherry-picking evidence and presents arbitrary criteria for admissible science.

    To give an example: More than 95% of studies of a certain category were dismissed, because they were not double-blind, i.e. have no patient control group that, e.g.:

    1. expresses gender dysphoria

    2. is not given real HRT/puberty blockers

    3. neither the scientists nor the patients know whether the group gets a real medication or placebo

    But you cannot **fake** the results of HRT or puberty, or lack thereof. Breasts grow, voice lowers, changes to the body happen – and so does the mental well-being of the patients. Besides, **any** transition-related study that would have a placebo group would be horrendous from an ethical perspective, since we already know from non-double-blind studies that HRT and puberty blockers lower the experienced distress and gender-dysphoria levels and have a positive influence on the patients’ mental state. Denying this is akin to refusing cancer treatment medication to cancer patients.

    Any meta-analysis that makes that arbitrary cutoff of hard-earned medical knowledge like this is not worth the paper it was written on and certainly not the money spent to prepare the report.

    Ultimately, It seems to have achieved its goal and I guess bigoted people who pretend they care about kids’ health will be happy – it will serve as a basis of attacks against trans people by morons left and right in the political spectrum Europe-wide.

  11. Eh, sounds like a lot of outrage for no reason. I wouldn’t exactly consider myself progressive these days, but I still don’t see a good reason to make things more difficult for trans people.

    Puberty blockers seems like a good way of avoiding the moral dilemma of children making irreversible decisions about their body. Forcing them to go through puberty also isn’t a good idea because that just makes it more difficult for everyone to accept them once they do transition.

    Personally I would be much more willing to accept someone who actually looks like who they want to be instead of… well, you know what I mean.

    edit: formatting

  12. When has this sub become such an alt-right misinformatiry shithole? Shut the fuck up about puberty blockers, let people be people, PROTECT TRANS KIDS!

  13. there is this trend in the west where people will not believe very obvious things that are obviously true without there being at least 100 peer reviewed studies on the topic

    you could tell someone that the sky is blue and they’d ask for a source. same with this thing. every reasonable human on the planet knew that prescribing puberty blockers to kids was idiotic immediately but apparently we needed “the science” to catch up

  14. As others have already pointed out with a lot of detail the report is an insult to proper academic work and Cass has already walked back many of the prescriptions the report made it’s truly pathetic any politician that uses this junk as a justification should get reprimanded by the voter, clearly they lack the discernment to notice when they are being manipulated or they are just bigoted losers waiting for an excuse both of which should be exclusion criteria not that there’ll ever be consequences but a man can dream

  15. The title of this article is infuriating. As if 3 doctors from 1 university doing a paper represents a whole country.

  16. Overall I think europeans have a more balanced view. They are testing and genuinely try to find optimal outcomes to the patients. (They are patients, it’s not a lifestyle —those who know, know)

    The cultural discourse around the topic doesn’t do anything for those people. It just opens up the topic to the worst possible people and exploses people that are already highly neurotic to feelings and attitudes that confirm their worst ideations.

    There’s also a massive cultural push to use anything and anyone who deviates from the standard view on gender, for the sport of it. These are the “allies “ that use the topic to rile up conservatards for the brownie points. You are not helping and by bringing mentally ill vulnerable people in the public discourse you are just deepening their dysfunction and isolation.

    But you don’t care do you? It’s about changing society after all. All the frustrations and conflicts will just end with one final victory and bringing the new society upon us.

  17. Ah, the Torygraph, peddling reactionary cherry-picked ‘science’ that is blatant politically/economically-driven garbage. Never change.

  19. children under the age of 60 shouldnt be allowed to know what sex is

  22. But a biased study conducted by transgender advocates showed that puberty blockers are safe and the effects reversible

  23. Important to know before you form an opinion on this is how puberty blockers work. Taking them won’t just stop your puberty forever. It “blocks” the puberty for as long as you take it. As soon as you stop the puberty will continue. It’s best compared to the anti conception pill, which only blocks your ability to get pregnant for as long as you take it.

  24. I love how you can make decisions that change your whole life, like which career you study for or change the outcome of a country by voting on an election but the right of having control over your body has to be locked all the way up to your twenties.

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