Glasgow-based Sandyford clinic issues update after Cass review found ‘weak evidence’ for use to treat gender incongruence
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Who else would you give puberty blockers to 🤔
Well duh, you need to give those kids actual HRT to help them. Of course puberty blockers aren’t enough !
You’re supposed to have therapy before you start doing things you can’t undo, among other things to make sure it’s actually the child’s choice.
Which is why blockers are useful. Either way, you’ve minimized potential harm.
Do you have to get therapy before tatoos or plastic surgery
And almost all hormone effets are reversible
From experience, “therapy” is just gatekeepinghrt does permanently affect fertility in both men and women so it’s not something that can be fully undone, hence the therapy requirement.
you must be absolutely sure before committing to itWe are talking about blockers, not hrt. Hormone blockers effects are reversible, and with hrt fertility is the only thing that’s getting affected in the long run, but still you don’t need to get therapy before getting a vasectomy.
Id like to add to the original comment that my body has been destroyed by an unwanted puberty and that yes, not getting blockers prescribed has harmed me
the comment you responded specifically mentions hrt though
Oh sorry I completely misread the original two comments, sorry about that. But still, while I do agree that you usually want to minimize potential harm, I still want to insist that therapy is not a good way of knowing if a person is really sure of it and it often into an infantilizing and unpleasant experience
What about children who enter puberty too early?
uhhh read the sentence again. slowly.
if I understand correctly there’s no point in prescribing them to adults right? like irrc puberty does continue till like 18 or 19 somethines but it’s probably already too late at that point?
