Comment on Trans youth will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers, NHS England says

• Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But they don’t do it for everything because things they did use it for they found out were bad, just like puberty blockers.

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  • BolexForSoup@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It was a dumb comparison and as others have pointed out, giving people mercury was not evidence-based treatment. Comparing half a century of data using quality methods and testing to mercury chugging centuries ago is profoundly ignorant.

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    • Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The evidence is not there for puberty blockers and it isn’t there for mercury.

      Either way the medical professionals have worked out what is best for the patient based on all the information and they have decided no to puberty blockers. No point talking about it anymore, the experts have spoken and neither of us has more data than them.

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      • BolexForSoup@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Which br8!(/ back to my original question of why two countries suddenly closed the matter. What is your bar for who gets to decide what the truth is? Is it based on the size of the population they serve? GDP? Years as a country?

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