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Puberty blockers stopped for under 18s in scotland

New prescriptions only while they review the Cass findings, existing trans children currently benefiting from this treatment are unaffected.  I expect they will follow NHS England and just move all new patients onto an organised trial. 

NHS hasn't blocked prescriptions, just required them to be part of a clinical trial.  It was in the BBC article on it, look it up you wassik

Isn’t the whole point from CASS that ‘benefitting’ is not confirmed?   

No, it was concern about the long-term side effects. Cass does not suggest kids shouldn't get blockers, it's obvious how beneficial they are to trans children, just that more rigour needs to happen with monitoring progress and potential effects, hence the clinical trial requirement    

  • The rationale for early puberty suppression remains unclear, with weak evidence regarding the impact on gender dysphoria, mental or psychosocial health. The effect on cognitive and psychosexual development remains unknown.
  • The use of masculinising / feminising hormones in those under the age of 18 also presents many unknowns, despite their longstanding use in the adult transgender population. The lack of long-term follow-up data on those commencing treatment at an earlier age means we have inadequate information about the range of outcomes for this group.
  • Clinicians are unable to determine with any certainty which children and young people will go on to have an enduring trans identity.
  • For most young people, a medical pathway will not be the best way to manage their gender-related distress. For those young people for whom a medical pathway is clinically indicated, it is not enough to provide this without also addressing wider mental health and/or psychosocially challenging problems.
  • Innovation is important if medicine is to move forward, but there must be a proportionate level of monitoring, oversight and regulation that does not stifle progress, while preventing creep of unproven approaches into clinical practice. Innovation must draw from and contribute to the evidence base.

Cass does not suggest kids shouldn't get blockers

She says there is insufficient evidence of benefit.  This is the foundation for any medical treatment with associated risk and harms you mad khvnt.

it's obvious how beneficial they are to trans children, just that more rigour needs to happen with monitoring progress and potential effects

So obvious that 6 gender clinics refused to provide the necessary data to establish patient outcomes.  You'd have thought if the data was so conclusive they would have been falling over themselves to hand it over.

 

Sex is attributed at birth by our visible bodily differences. Clarity is achieved when needed looking at hormones, internal physiology. There are three sexes male, female and intersex (those whose bodily/hormonal variation means they are neither fully male/female). 

...and then:

Sex – the chromosomal, physical and biological characteristics that distinguish males from females. There are two biological sexes – male and female. Intersex is a term used for disorders of sexual development (DSD). 

It would be funny if children weren't having healthy breasts cut off and weren't being sterilised because the same people doing this training are telling them it'll make them feel better, without any evidence base whatsoever to mean they are confident it will.

The LGBT+ LibDems’ damning condemnation of the Cass review, which blasts the “conclusion which infantilises autistic people and is undeniable transphobia”,  has mysteriously disappeared from the official LibDem website to be replaced by… nothing.

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