Trans youth will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers at NHS England gender identity clinics in a new “blow” to gender-affirming healthcare.
Puberty blockers are a type of medicine that prevent puberty from starting by blocking the hormones – like testosterone and oestrogen – that lead to puberty-related changes in the body. In the case of trans youth, this can delay unwanted physical changes like menstruation, breast growth, voice changes or facial hair growth.
On Tuesday (12 March), NHS England confirmed the medicine, which has been described as “life-saving” medical care for trans youth, will only be available to young people as part of clinical research trials.
The government described the move as a “landmark decision”, Sky News reported. It believed such a move is in the “best interests of the child”.
Whoever decided this can shove a cactus up somewhere.
Fuck you for hurting the most vulnerable;
disgusting decision by disgusting people.You might wanna rephrase your second sentence
Just needs a semi-colon instead of a comma.
As a non native speaker the honest question, why?
Fuck you for hurting the most vulnerable, disgusting decision by disgusting people.
Kann übersetzt werden zu:
Fickt euch dafür die verletzlichste, abscheulichste Entscheidung von abscheulischen Leuten zu verletzen. (weird weil wörtliche Übersetzung; kann auch Beschädigen o.ä. nutzen. Geht mehr um den Sinn als das Wort)
Ist vermutlich gemeint:
Fickt euch dafür die Verletzlichsten zu verletzen; Abscheulische Entscheidung abscheulicher Leute.
Ah danke, habs geändert.
Die meisten Menschen kriegen Semikolons eh nicht auf die Reihe, weder beim lesen noch schreiben.
That said I had to really try hard to deliberately missunderstand it.
But well, we seem to have the same native language and therefore maybe intuitively misstranslate it the same way? ^^
Christo-fascists run too many gov’ts
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I don’t know what I want for dinner and that never stopped me from identifying myself.
You know puberty blockers aren’t permanent right? Stop taking them, and then puberty happens. But once you’ve gone through puberty, there’s no undoing that. That’s where the harm is, in forcing someone to undergo changes they know they don’t want.
This is only true of GnRH related medications. Use of hormones as well as more effects. Just to be clear.
Anti-trans people will not be swayed by facts, they want their hated other and they’ve made their choice.
The only thing we can do is try and limit their damage
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We know so little about the actual process of gender dysphoria. Hormone blockers don’t solve or fix anything, but have been used simply because it’s the only thing that does something. Essentially bringing a blunt instrument to the problem.
Considering the harmful nature of hormone blockers, I’m for not prescribing puberty blockers to youth. However, only so long as more research is put into it.
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Hormone blockers are generally used because it’s far easier for people to transition if they haven’t already been smacked around by puberty and it ends up giving a healthier result.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/24/texas-transgender-kids-transition-related-health-care/
(I KNOW, right? “Texas Tribune?”)
"Studies have found that transgender youth who take puberty blockers are significantly less likely to experience lifelong suicidal ideation than those who want the care and don’t get it. And studies show psychological trauma is reduced and life satisfaction increases when people who want transition-related hormone therapy get it.
Major medical associations support transition-related care. They include the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, the Endocrine Society, the World Medical Association and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health."
All right wingers want for Christmas is increased suicidality of anyone unlike themselves
Or probably more accurately if you look at right wing scandals, people that think similarly to them but are brave enough to live their truth and not try to hide behind a bible and pay their reality away.
Conservatives are cowards. They mainline fear 24/7, they feel list without it.
Conservatives are cowards. They mainline fear 24/7, they feel list without it.
Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
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It’s all part of the NHS War On Mental Health. The plan is remove treatments that conservatives don’t believe in because they can’t see them. They will take those savings and use them to extend the lives of terminally ill people in persistent vegetative states because life is sacred and needs to be protracted and painful.
I thought quackery was illegal, but apparently not when it’s *fundamentalists in politics.
*Fundamentalists as in fundamentally sociopaths.
Another Tory L as usual.
Can’t wait till the day comes when they’re out of the gov for good.
You confident that blue Labour will reverse this policy?
Prob not tbh but since how bad everything is atm, any change at this point is better than none at this rate.
TERF island strikes again
Great Britain should be renamed as Terf Island. Make it descriptive.
This has nothing to do with the will of the people
Sure. Voting isn’t a thing in the UK
You probably wanted to be ironic, but the irony in this case is misplaced :D
Nah, they prefer prescriptivism. Actually, Terf Island still makes sense from that lens.
I’m not sure, but there’s a descriptivism/prescriptivism joke in there somewhere.
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this is why i haven’t taken my kid to get his supposed ‘broken leg’ fixed. sorry kiddo but i have thoroughly inspected it and determined that the bone angles are within tolerance
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I’ve asked like ten 10 year olds and none of them want me to break their legs; that’s ridiculous.
You’re not going to get any sympathy here, but for what it’s worth I agree with you. Some children may be entirely convinced that they know exactly what they want, and two years later they may find out they were completely wrong. I’m a trans ally, but I think children should require the explicit informed consent of their parents for any and all medical treatments including hormone therapy.
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Good thing puberty blockers are completely reversible should the child end up being wrong. But if they are not wrong they are spared living through their body changing further into the opposite of their gender.
As I understand it, the rate of post-hormone regret for these kids is extremely low. Like, single or double digits low.
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I did not say hormone replacement therapy. I said hormone therapy, which is exactly what “pausing puberty” involves.
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Do you think it would be important to understand the clinical requirements, outcomes, and medical consensus of the previous policy vs a blanket ban before endorsing a ban? Isn’t the point of blockers to slow development so informed consent about transitioning can be made?
Right wing conservatives can go pound sand. Talk about the government pushing itself between a doctor and patient care.
A landmark bullshit decision.
Oh, great. Vulnerable children and desperate parents searching for prescription medication on the black market. What could go wrong?
Mission accomplished.
Right wing twats trying their best to destroy as many children as they can
