Trans youth will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers at NHS England gender identity clinics in a “blow” to gender-affirming healthcare.
  • UncleGrandPa@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    All 83 of them?

    Really that is the total for the entire country. Ya, it’s a “serious” problem. … Sure

  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Go check the UnitedKingdom subreddit if you want to see the celebratory bloodlust of the average Briton, the blatant alternative truths and so on, and this is of the young progressive sort, the average 40+ boomeroid probably no longer bothers with that mask even.

    I am so tired. I’ve fought the good fight for so long for my people but in the end it’s like it was all pointless.

  • Wanderer@lemm.eeEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Scientist have collected all the data and decided the experts on Lemmy are wrong.

    • HumanPenguin@feddit.ukEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Complete miss characterisation. It is lack of data the NHS is arguing with. Not scientific evidence.

      The article is bluntly stating that the NHS has made this choice because no evidence of the long term safty exists. Not because scientists say it is unsafe.

  • Churbleyimyam@lemm.eeEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’m not particularly well educated on the subject but according to the BBC:

    Fewer than 100 young people in England are currently prescribed puberty blockers by the NHS. They will all able to continue their treatment.

    So why such a big fuss?

      • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.caEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Can puberty blocking be reversed at a later date?

        Or can blocked puberty be reverted later?

        I could agree with a ban whole heatedly if blocking can’t be reversed and blocked cannot be reverted, but I would likely to oppose a ban it if blocking can be reversed and blocked could be reverted.

        Gets a little fuzzy if it’s one or the other though.

        Wouldn’t want someone to miss their only chance to block puberty, but also wouldn’t want someone to make a permanent choice at 13-14 which can’t be reversed if they want to later on.

        • adderaline@beehaw.orgEnglish
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          10 months ago

          puberty blockers are used explicitly to delay having to go through puberty. they are used for kids who have precocious puberty (puberty that starts too early), as well as for trans kids. there are some marginal risks associated with them, you might grow a bit shorter, or just generally develop differently that you might have if you had allowed puberty to progress on time, but there aren’t specific health challenges people who use them face. the reason you take them is to explicitly prevent somebody from going through irreversible changes they might not like before they can make an informed decision, or before it is healthy for those changes to occur.

          interestingly, most of the poor health outcomes of precocious puberty are psychological and social, not physical, which is, i think, an interesting parallel to the trans experience.