Blocking Puberty Blockers

In a better world Leor Sapir’s takedown of what is called gender medicine would put an end to the practice of mutilating children. And yet, we do not live in a better world and gender medicine is a highly lucrative sub-speciality, especially when it can begin its devilish actions on prepubescent children. 

It all begins with puberty blockers. When physicians discovered that adults who transitioned were unhappy with the outcome of their mutilations, they decided that if only they could stop puberty, those who were gender-confused would have a better chance of changing sexes. 

Sapir explains how it works:

Across the United States, thousands of parents have consented to having their children’s puberty stopped with a class of drugs called gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists. Known colloquially as “puberty blockers,” these drugs overstimulate the pituitary gland to the point of preventing it from sending signals to the ovaries or testes to start producing the hormones responsible for puberty.

Parents who have consented to these drugs for their children love their kids dearly, but they’ve consented under entirely false pretenses. The doctors who’ve advised them say that puberty blockers are known to improve mental health — that they are even life-saving — and that they are fully reversible and just give kids “time to think.” None of this is true.

Far too many medical professionals have bought this fraud. And you have been told to trust the science. If not the science, at least the men and women of science.

Do they realize that they are compromising the reputation of medical professionals?

As for the truth about puberty blockers, Sapir lays it out:

Imagine if American doctors told parents the following truths. The mental health benefits of puberty blockers are highly uncertain, according to multiple systematic reviews of the evidence, the bedrock of evidence-based medicine. The World Health Organization says the evidence is “limited and variable.” There is no research into long-term harms, but some evidence suggests decreased IQ and brittle bones. Permanent sterility is guaranteed for minors who go through full hormonal “transition.” Sexual dysfunction appears to be extremely common as well. Over 93 percent of kids who take these drugs go on to cross-sex hormones, which lead to permanent physical changes including excruciating genital growth, vaginal atrophy and tearing and much higher risk for cancer and cardiovascular disease.

More than a few physicians tell parents that if they do not consent to put their children on puberty blockers, said children will commit suicide. To call this science is an obscenity:

There is no credible evidence that puberty blockers function as suicide-prevention measures. Finland’s top gender clinician has called the suicide narrative “purposeful disinformation” and “dangerous.” For all these reasons, health authorities in a growing number of countries, including some of the most LGBT-friendly, are now prioritizing talk therapy.

In those countries that have overcome the urge to mutilate children in the name of an ideology, counselors and therapists are now offering therapy.

As for the biology of puberty blockers, one neuropsychologist offers a sobering assessment:

Blocking puberty,” writes Sallie Baxendale, a professor of neuropsychology and author of an important new study on puberty blockers, “prevents the critical rewiring in the brain that underpins the ability make complex decisions. Puberty blockers may give children time to think but they simultaneously rob them of their developing capacity to do so.”

The problem is a youth mental health crisis. Given that they have been clueless about the cause or the best treatment, some therapists and counselors have chosen to believe that the root of all these problems lies in misgendering. And that it admits of an easy fix:

What is likely happening is that an ongoing youth mental health crisis whose origins predate and have little to do with gender is being misdiagnosed and mistreated with harmful and experimental drugs. 

As Sapir concludes:

Pediatric gender medicine is an industry built on fraud.

Dare we add, as others have, that gender dysphoria is a social contagion, one that certain physicians and counselors, to say nothing of politicians, are exploiting. 

In the U.S., the drugs are being prescribed at numbers far exceeding anything the Dutch could possibly have imagined. Most adolescents referred to pediatric gender clinics are teen girls who have no history of dysphoria in childhood but who do have other mental health challenges that predate their distress with their bodies.

Worse yet, Sapir explains, is that gender transitioning has become a civil right. If you do not accept it, you are a bigot:

What makes pediatric gender transition unique is that it has been framed as a nonnegotiable civil right and defended by powerful civil rights groups, the Democratic Party and their ideological allies in the mainstream media.

It’s a big lie, repeated by people who should know better:

Puberty is difficult for all teens, and it is not a disease. Puberty blockers offer teens in distress — especially girls with history of sexual abuse, autistic kids and gay kids — false hope by casting puberty as optional.

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