Mayo Clinic experts say puberty blockers can lead to withering testicles, fertility problems and even cancer among the trans kids who take them, in the latest study to raise alarm about transgender medicine.
The findings cast doubt on the 'reversibility' of puberty blockers — a key claim of the trans activists who promote the drugs, saying they only 'pause' puberty and buy time for trans kids to make decisions about their gender.
Instead, researchers say puberty blockers hurt the development of testicles and sperm production in ways that are not fully reversible and could affect users' ability to have children when they grow up.
'At the tissue level, we report mild-to-severe sex gland atrophy in puberty blocker-treated children,' the geneticist Nagarajan Kannan and others wrote in the 33-page study.
'We provide unprecedented histological evidence revealing detrimental pediatric testicular sex gland responses' to the drugs.
The study has not yet been peer-reviewed, but has been endorsed by Genspect, a global advocacy group against medical transitions, 'Harry Potter' author J K Rowling, Benjamin Ryan, a prominent science writer, and others.
It takes aim at one of the most controversial issues of our time — whether to provide drugs and surgery to kids who experience gender confusion or 'dysphoria' and ask their parents or doctors for help.
Puberty blockers were originally developed to suppress the hormones of minors who started puberty too early.
They are nowadays prescribed off-label to a fast-growing number of trans children.
Advocates of gender-affirming care, as it is known, say it's life-saving for a suicide-prone group, and that puberty blockers help pre-teens 'pause' their puberty and buy time to weigh life-altering decisions.
Critics warn of surging numbers of young people who identify as trans, and say puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries are often unnecessary and likely dangerous when counselling gets better results.
@GarlicTrinityRepublican1mo1MO
Woah the transgender hormonal drugs cause cancer? Why didn't anyone tell us this?!?
We've known for over a decade that women who take estrogen & other hormones to combat menopause symptoms are more likely to develop uterine, ovarian, and breast cancer.
Why wouldn't developing teenagers be at risk?
These evil child mutilators and abusers knew this all along, they've just chosen to fall down and worship the heathen god of political correctness and sacrifice innocent children on the alter of the Marxist gender cult. This is the slippery slope we conservatives told everyone about when the pagan federal government forced States to recognise homosexual sodomists as married couples, against the First Amendment and the Tenth Amendment. Being proven right has never felt worse.
“Medicine” I believe you meant to say child abuse.
@GorillaClaraUnity1mo1MO
Lobotomies used to be championed back in the day as well. I look at what they're doing to kids today as even more evil than that, due to their innocence.
@ISIDEWITH1mo1MO
Considering the debate around puberty blockers, where do you think the line should be drawn between immediate emotional relief and long-term physical consequences?
@9LD253L1mo1MO
Under the age of 18 no medical intervention with transition
@ISIDEWITH1mo1MO
If you're surprised at this piece of news, you've been brainwashed. No normal person even raises an eyebrow at hearing this.
@IngeniousL1ber4lForward1mo1MO
Is this what they refer to as "gender affirming HEALTHcare"?
@PolicyLilyForward1mo1MO
SOOOOO, do they want it approved or nah? I'm confused. No pun intended
@Partis4nGarlicForward1mo1MO
Well, they don't cause cancer. They do make you more susceptible to it as your immune system is depressed. This is all in the documents that onenmust sign in order for the doctor to get informed consent for the meds and any procedures.
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