{"id":55957,"date":"2024-08-02T11:40:35","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T15:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=55957"},"modified":"2024-08-02T11:40:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T15:40:35","slug":"follow-the-money-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=55957","title":{"rendered":"Follow The Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/federal-agencies\/fda-knew-gender-affirming-puberty-blockers-increase-suicidality-2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just the News<\/a> posted an article about the safety of using puberty blockers on children.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Five months before the <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/federal-agencies\/biden-administration-divided-gender-affirming-care-minors-other\">Food and Drug Administration issued a health warning<\/a> on puberty blockers widely used off-label to treat minors with gender confusion, undermining a Department of Health and Human Services office that claimed <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220506090615\/https:\/opa.hhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-03\/gender-affirming-care-young-people-march-2022.pdf\">&#8220;early gender affirming care is crucial to overall health and well-being,&#8221;<\/a> an FDA leader acknowledged other health concerns.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Pediatric patients exposed to &#8220;gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists,&#8221; most with central precocious puberty (CPP) and &#8220;a handful \u2026 transgender kids using the drugs off-label,&#8221; had an &#8220;increased risk of depression and suicidality, as well as increased seizure risk,&#8221; Division of General Endocrinology clinical team leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/shannon-sullivan-02550919\/\">Shannon Sullivan<\/a> told colleagues.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The 2017 safety review by the FDA&#8217;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 &#8220;suicide prevention,&#8221; as the government&#8217;s highest-ranking transgender official said at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/about\/news\/2022\/04\/30\/remarks-by-hhs-assistant-secretary-for-health-adm-rachel-levine-for-the-2022-out-for-health-conference.html\">2022 Out For Health Conference<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Telling parents that if they don&#8217;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&#8217;s blackmail of their parents. If you child came to you and said, &#8220;If you don&#8217;t buy me a BMW, I am going to commit suicide,&#8221; 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&#8217;t give in, the child&#8217;s suicide will be the parents&#8217; fault.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s entire life. With any luck at all, the patient&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Just the News posted an article about the safety of using puberty blockers on children. 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