Lupron, a popular puberty blocker.
A puberty blocker (1971- ), aka hormone blocker, is a medicine which blocks the hormones in the body that turn girls into women and boys into men. They greatly slow down, but do not completely stop, changes like girls growing breasts and wider hips or boys getting deeper voices and a more manly face.
Pause button: Puberty blockers allow those confused about their gender identity to put their puberty on pause, generally for six months to a year, while they make up their mind about whether they are transgender and want to transition to the opposite gender. Those who decide that they are not transgender simply stop taking puberty blockers and their puberty will resume where it left off.
Blockers have been in use since the late 1980s and are regarded as being pretty safe. They are mainly used not on transgender people but to prevent an early puberty, as early as age five in girls. They are also used to treat prostate and breast cancer and endometriosis. They are even used on dogs and horses. Only when used on transgender people do they suddenly cause a moral panic:
State bans on proper health care for transgender youth in the US as of April 16th 2023.
Moral panic: They are suddenly in the news in the US after more than 30 years of use because Republicans are spreading fear and disinformation about transgender people, their latest boogeyman. Already 13 states have outlawed doctors from using them on transgender patients under age 18 – you know, those with an actual puberty to block. That despite the medical consensus, despite what the American Medical Association, the American Psychological Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Endocrine Society say, despite what doctors themselves say.
Side effects: All medicines have possible side effects. The main one for puberty blockers is lower bone density. But even that is unclear: as it turns out, transgender people have lower bone density even when they do not take puberty blockers! Doctors weigh this risk against the high rates of suicide that untreated transgender people experience. Half of transgender people ages 13 to 24 have seriously considered suicide in the past year. Rates of self-harm and thoughts of suicide can be reduced by 73% with proper medical care. (Family support also makes a huge difference.)
Gateway drug? Some argue that puberty blockers are a gateway drug to the hard stuff: cross-sex hormones. These are what they give you if you decide to transition. Nearly all transgender people who go on puberty blockers do decide to transition, with very few regretting it. Presumably because doctors, in the main, are giving puberty blockers to the right people. If it were the puberty blockers themselves that make people transgender, then you would see those who take them to prevent an early puberty also becoming transgender at high rates. But you do not.
In truth puberty blockers work all too well. If you take puberty blockers early enough, most people will never be able to tell you were ever anything else after you transition. Just ask Janet Mock (pictured below) who went on puberty blockers in the 1990s. That turns traditional ideas about gender upside-down. And that is what scares people.
Janet Mock: assigned male at birth.
– Abagond, 2023.
Sources: Scientific American (May 1st 2023).
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Abagond 
Wow, you don’t even exercise any independent critical thinking on stuff like this, abagond. There’s no medical consensus that puberty blockers are fully reversible and that’s certainly not the effect for many people. https://wng.org/roundups/study-effects-of-puberty-blockers-can-last-a-lifetime-1617220389. Saying these kids would have bone density problems anyway is ridiculous and doesn’t pass the smell test (did all the tomboys you grew up with have bone problems?). This is basically sterilizing young kids before they could consent to sexual activity. You reference that 50% of “transgender” people have seriously considered suicide in the last year, which is insane. Have suicide rates come down since the advent of these puberty blockers? Not at all. Actually just the opposite. Do you remember, when you were young, gender dysphoria being a leading cause of suicide? For the most part, it wasn’t a thing. It’s all ridiculous if you think about it. These are recently manufactured issues that are degrading society. I’m eagerly awaiting the inevitable piece from you explaining and sympathizing with “minor attracted persons”.
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Anti-trans sentiment is not a “new moral panic.” It’s the continuation of the underlying concern when society was debating whether or not homosexuality should be socially acceptable. The mainstreaming of transgenderism is the next notch on the slippery slope.
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A male cannot be a woman and a female cannot be a man. If I decide to start sexually identifying as black, can I then say the n word?
MtF transexuals have a Y-chromosome in every cell of their body, and are incapable of producing eggs or carrying a fetus.
FtM transexuals have no Y-chromosome in any cells of their body and are incapable of producing sperm or fertilizing an egg.
Transexual ideology is just a more perverted version of astrology.
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@paul kruger
Well then I guess two gay men will never become parents then.
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@biff
A source that is “grounded in facts and biblical truth” isnt valid.
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Harry, you don’t like facts and truth, huh? How about anti-Christian globalist propaganda–probably more your style. MSM so reliable. They’ll tell you we’re going to win in Ukraine any day now.
And yes two gay men become “parents” only by getting a woman involved–not by fertilizing a man’s @$$#*!~.
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@biff but only one of them donates gametes. lol swing and a miss.
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@biff only one of them donated gametes. And you still need an egg. So no.
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but you still require an egg….
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