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All puberty blockers do is pause puberty. Once you stop taking them, puberty resumes.
They are used on children for reasons other than the child being transgender. For example, precocious puberty where a child starts developing before a standard puberty age.
Should we not allow kids at that critical stage of development have their hormones messed with?
Should we also not be trying to prevent child suicide?
I know you didn't read the article, but that's still allowed and the 100 kids on this treatment will continue to do so.
I came to Lemmy to get away from people going off titles alone. You're automatically arguing in bad faith if you don't even read What's being changed.
And don't give me this bullshit of "it just resumes!" Because that's not how bodies work. There's a reason puberty should happen at the right age, the entire reason for this medication btw.
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt here. So don't waste it by coming back and shouting nonsense about medical research, something neither of us is qualified enough to understand. (And I worked for nhs mind you)
Hmm...
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Seems like you think you're qualified enough...
I'm not qualified but I know when I don't know everything and can smell bullshit from people underplaying a serious aspect.
The first step to knowledge is realising you don't know anything as they say. As i said, i used to work for nhs and my parent comes from a medical background. To say anything they deal with is simple or easy to understand is laughable.
"I know when I don't know everything but I know this is bullshit" is not an especially scientific attitude when approaching a scientific subject.
I lack the words to sift out emotional responses.
Is the meaning of my words truly lost?
I would say declaring something to be bullshit without evidence and while admitting it is not your area would be the emotional response here.
Then my point has indeed been missed. Feel free to discard it as it hasn't come across as intended.