On Thursday, Just the News posted an article about the safety of using puberty blockers on children.
The article reports:
Five months before the Food and Drug Administration issued a health warning on puberty blockers widely used off-label to treat minors with gender confusion, undermining a Department of Health and Human Services office that claimed “early gender affirming care is crucial to overall health and well-being,” an FDA leader acknowledged other health concerns.
Pediatric patients exposed to “gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists,” most with central precocious puberty (CPP) and “a handful … transgender kids using the drugs off-label,” had an “increased risk of depression and suicidality, as well as increased seizure risk,” Division of General Endocrinology clinical team leader Shannon Sullivan told colleagues.
The 2017 safety review by the FDA’s Division of Metabolism and Endocrinology Products (DMEP), cited by Sullivan, contradicts claims by American medical groups and Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine that gender affirming care is “suicide prevention,” as the government’s highest-ranking transgender official said at the 2022 Out For Health Conference.
Telling parents that if they don’t allow their child to submit to puberty blockers the child will commit suicide was always a lie. It was the medical complex participating in the child’s blackmail of their parents. If you child came to you and said, “If you don’t buy me a BMW, I am going to commit suicide,” would you give in? I doubt it. So why are parents giving in on the puberty blockers issue? Possibly because there are those in the medical profession telling them that if they don’t give in, the child’s suicide will be the parents’ fault.
The think to keep in mind here is that a transgender patient is a patient for life. Their body is continually trying to switch back to where it started, so continual drugs and hormones are needed for the patient’s entire life. With any luck at all, the patient’s health insurance pays the bills, but in many circumstances, the taxpayers pay the bill. There are other less permanent ways to help adolescents get through puberty.