Great Britain has been edging toward this moment for months, but the government has made it official: children will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers as a treatment for gender dysphoria.
Period. End of story. Not gonna happen.
This is perhaps the most dramatic about-face in European medical treatments of so-called "transgender" children, as until a couple of years ago puberty blockers were distributed like candy to children in the good old UK, and the NHS was all-in on what was once called the "Dutch Protocol," only moreso.
Dutch government to research physical & mental health outcomes of puberty blockers:
— TransgenderTrend (@Transgendertrd) March 4, 2024
"The fact that the Dutch are now having doubts about a practice they effectively exported to the rest of the world has obvious implications, not least for the NHS."https://t.co/txpMU5w4k1
Of course the Dutch and the Swedes have been moving in this direction as well, given that recent research indicates that the medicalization of gender dysphoria has been a huge mistake, creating massive harms to children with no discernable medical or mental health benefits.
Puberty blockers aka sterilization drugs will no longer be prescribed to children in Britain, due to potentially severe negative effects
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 12, 2024
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A study was just released demonstrating that mental health crises and suicidality increase dramatically after "gender-affirming" surgeries--by a factor of two in male-to-female surgeries.
Study finds that the attempted-suicide rate among transgender women who received a vaginoplasty in California was twice as high during the period after the surgery compared with the period before the surgery.
— Benjamin Ryan (@benryanwriter) March 11, 2024
The investigaotrs analyzed data on all 868 people who received a… pic.twitter.com/RO6zKC7Xt3
Puberty blockers have their own massive problems, as I have outlined countless times in articles. Children who receive them develop osteoporosis, often become sterilized, and recent research indicates that their mental development and IQ are negatively impacted.
That puberty blockers, hormones, and surgery have been routinely used on children is an unfolding scandal for many reasons, not the least of which is that practically no research has been done to demonstrate costs and benefits. This simply isn't done with medical care--calling an untried, untested, and potentially lethal procedure on people without experimental evidence.
Commentary: Cognitive, Emotional, and Psychosocial Functioning of Girls Treated with Pharmacological Puberty Blockage for Idiopathic Central Precocious Puberty. #lowerIQ https://t.co/vniBTzxqvY
— Tania Marshall 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿Psychotherapist Author (@TaniaAMarshall) August 15, 2021
I should say it simply isn't done if the intention is to heal people rather than push an ideological agenda regardless of the consequences.
As things stand, the United States is the last bastion of "gender-affirming" medicalization, and I have to say that there are two primary reasons for this: 1) the power of alphabet ideology in the Democrat Party, and 2) the great profitability of gender treatments for doctors, hospitals, and the pharmaceutical industry.
"It's completely wrong to refer to a child as a "transgender child" - David Bell challenges Evan Davis and says "You should not start them on this medical pathway."
— TransgenderTrend (@Transgendertrd) March 12, 2024
NSHE confirms that puberty blockers will not be routinely prescribed, listen from 17.05 https://t.co/k1x9FVWDMz
Prior to COVID-19 I often said that one of the reasons why the United States is so exceptional is that we have a CDC that is mostly driven by science and evidence. But, as with my once-naive faith in FEMA, I have learned a very harsh lesson about just how corrupt these agencies have become.
What were once great, if flawed, institutions that ensured the resilience of our society in the face of unavoidable ills such as disease and disasters are now mainly politically-driven money machines.
The evidence has been out there for years, for all who were prepared to open their eyes. https://t.co/bm209jvh6e
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) March 12, 2024
Perhaps this is the fate of all institutions, good or ill. Success breeds complacency, which breeds modest corruption, which breeds institutional collapse into cronyism and complete self-dealing.
We are at that last stage, I am afraid, although what we are seeing in Europe should give us some hope that things can be reversed. If the Dutch, the Swedes, the Norwegians, and the Brits can reverse course, perhaps it will be possible here as well.
On the other hand, the alphabet ideology zealots are much more politically powerful here than in Europe.
Time to pray.
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