The lying 'experts'
A paper on puberty blockers, published in the journal Plos One and covered this week in The Times, has found that they stunted height and impaired the bone mass density of children wishing to change gender.
The study, which began nine years ago, followed 44 children, aged 12-15, who were treated for gender dysphoria at England’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), which suspended the practice in November.
By the time the children had finished their stint on puberty blockers at the age of 16, researchers found “reduced growth” in height and bone strength.
The researchers also found that puberty blockers brought no improvement in psychological function, quality of life or gender dysphoria.
At the very least this means the claims that puberty blockers have no adverse or irreversible effects cannot be accurate.
However, for months there have been a group of people trying to tell you, and your children, otherwise.
There’s the lawyer with more than a quarter of a million followers on Twitter.
The inspirational trans influencers.
The mothers of ‘trans children’.
The fathers of ‘trans children’.
The trolls.
But perhaps the most chilling advice comes from GenderGP, which provides these drugs. Here’s what its founder said about them last year.
And here’s what its ‘lead counsellor’ said.
And this is GenderGP’s social media manager Taryn de Vere, the hub for the distribution of these drugs to children in Ireland, laughing with trans-identified male Katy Montgomery about the drugs they’ve been providing.
I can't believe how often the comparison to abortion is trotted out. If carried out safely an abortion, while having life altering impact, should not damage or alter the body in any significant or lasting way. And the reason most people would have concerns about a 13 year old having a child is that they possibly won't, by dint of being 13 and all that comes with that, be equipped to care for it. The decision to have an abortion takes the foreseeable future of two lives into account.
To make comparisons to anorexia or bulimia, as often is done by GC folk, is closer in accuracy given the psychological and physiological damage they can have, all in the pursuit of trying to feel happier in oneself.
This has made me feel really sick. The comparisons made. . . how is self mutilation (or mutilation sanctioned by the very adults who are supposed to protect children) anything like abortion? The throw away language about irreversible damage being done to children's bodies, minds and lives. The stuff of nightmares. And everyday I think about parents who are trying to coax their kids out of their teenage angst and through puberty safely while the insane trans lobby screams TERF and 'child abuse' at them. A true nightmare scenario.
How can anyone thinks this is OK, let alone argue (aggressively and blindly) for it. The skull surgery thing. . . what? I wish these people would all get in the bin.