Comment on UK government bans private puberty blocker prescriptions for trans youth

• Streetlights@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They aren’t banned for use as a treatment for precocious puberty, which presumably is something anyone can suffer from trans or otherwise.

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  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah but they’re banned for use for kids who suffer from gender dysphoria, which is a condition that by definition only trans people have, so it’s absolutely restricting access to them based on them being trans.

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    • Streetlights@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They aren’t banned for kids who suffer from dysphoria. They are banned from being used as a treatment for dysphoria. Important difference.

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      • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That is a pointless difference in practice, because kids who suffer from gender dysphoria would use these meds for treatment of said dysphoria and do in the rest of the world that follows the expert guidance from WPATH, and now they can’t, and the kids will suffer as a result. But hey at least the transes will be mad innit.

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