Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK

• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The forty years worth of proof you are referring to is in almost all cases where the use was to block early puberty and then allow it to take it’s course at a normal age.

  Which is what would happen if they decided not to go thru with transitioning as an adult…

  Which is what you said you’re worried about.

  Like, you’re still talking about something besid s puberty blockers:

  How much proof I would need is a tough question because it obviously requires testing on children and it’s an ethical issue.

  Lots of children go on puberty blockers, the reason they’re going on them doesn’t change how safe they are.

  At the end of the day, I’m not pretending to be an expert in puberty blockers,

  I’m saying you don’t seem to know what they are. The temporarily block puberty. That is it. You keep wanting to take it to a possible surgery later as an adult, and claim the blockers are a permanent and irreversible step towards that

  When that is just factually incorrect.

  It is not an opinion we disagree on. It is a fact and you are wrong.

  I’m saying that sometimes children need to be protected from themselves.

  Literally what puberty blockers are…

  So children don’t have to prematurely choose if they want to transition they take blockers until they are sure and mature enough to make that decision, which is almost always when they’re over 18.

  If they change their mind, they just stop taking blockers.

  I legitimately have no idea how to state it any plainer than this.

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  • 13esq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Which is what would happen if they decided not to go thru with transitioning as an adult…

    That is quite obviously an assumption. You are extrapolating data and although I see the logic of your statement, it’s bad science. The rest of your comment is based on this premise.

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    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      What?

      You said:

      The forty years worth of proof you are referring to is in almost all cases where the use was to block early puberty and then allow it to take it’s course at a normal age.

      And I replied:

      Which is what would happen if they decided not to go thru with transitioning as an adult…

      If someone goes on puberty blockers, decides not to transition…

      Then that is:

      where the use was to block early puberty and then allow it to take it’s course at a normal age.

      You keep saying your issue is with puberty blockers, but the only complaints you have is minors transitioning.

      Since that doesn’t happen, you seem to be mad at blockers

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      • 13esq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I’ve said everything I have to say and I can see trying to explain myself further will be fruitless.

        If you honestly think that a child could block puberty up to the age of 18 or further and then change their mind and go through a normal puberty like nothing ever happened, then good for you, personally, I’m doubtful.

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