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Friday 26 March 2021

Puberty Blockers and Child Transition

Child Transition, Affirmative Approach, Detransition & Puberty Blockers - Counter Narrative and Evidence

*We also have a second blog of various links to information and stories on detransition Detransitioners - the struggle and the hate



Fertility - for some children, their potential for having children is left to rest on the vicissitudes of gamete preservation. The risks are many, most notably children who have not gone through puberty will not have mature gametes, and the highly complex lottery of this treatment.
It has led to a slightly more successful option - zygote freezing - being recommended. Meaning adolescent girls are actually asked to select from catalogues of sperm donors.

Puberty Blocker and Aging Impact on Testicular Cell States and Function

Geneticist Nagarajan Kannan: “At the tissue level, we report mild-to-severe sex gland atrophy in puberty blocker-treated children.” 

“We provide unprecedented histological evidence revealing detrimental paediatric testicular sex gland responses to the drugs,” 

Jamie Reed on her time working in a child gender clinic: I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I'm Blowing the Whistle 

Reliable sources:

Gender HQ

Transgender Trend

The Tavistock's Experiment with Puberty Blockers, Prof Michael Biggs

Lupron is a hazardous drug

Lupron, puberty blocker for children causes health problems 

Lupron, a nightmare produced in Abbvie

Medical Industry 

Drug company drop cheaper drug, leaving patients stuck with pricier one - drug costs EIGHT TIMES as much when prescribed to children

The Lupron money trail 


Hannah Barnes on X
"Extraordinary details in this case from the family court, highlighting just how badly gender-questioning young people are being let down: lack of NHS provision has led them to private providers. 
Here there was no physical examination before prescribing… 
“Dr Hewitt's principal criticism of Gender GP's intervention, however, relates to the dose of testosterone that was prescribed….[it] was at the level that one would administer to an adult only after a course of treatment … built up …over the course of two or three years.”"


The 'Conversion Therapy' Argument

Lesbians face extinction as transgenderism becomes pervasive, campaigners warn

Kai Shapley, of The Baby Sitters' Club and numerous campaigning roles, comes from a strict religious background. 

Kai's mother in the documentary following the family:

At age 4 we though he was gay, we thought that cannot happen, that will not happen, we started spanking him, hard, & googling conversion therapy & how to implement it at home


● Psychotherapists avoid children who want to be transgender as they fear conversion therapy accusations

● Transgenderism is a form of gay conversion therapy

● It feels like conversion therapy for gay kids say clinicians

● Meet Alex Berty, the transgender poster boy

Desistance & Detransition 


88% of dysphoric natal boys desist by adulthood 

The de-transitioners - what happens when trans men want to be women again 

The ranks of de-transitioners are growing. We need to understand why 

● Gender dysphoria in adolescence: current perspectives: 

"Evidence from the 10 available prospective follow-up studies from childhood to adolescence (reviewed in the study by Ristori and Steensma 28) indicates that for ~80% of children who meet the criteria for GDC, the GD recedes with puberty. Instead, many of these adolescents will identify as non-heterosexual" - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5841333/

Gender reassignment- I'm man enough to admit that it was a mistake 

Sex change sorrow 


^
Young Man Has Testicles Removed & Becomes Suicidal After Only Three Months 

Post transition regret 

• https://twitter.com/BlanchardPhD/status/1373741892400189445?s=19



Testimony in Support of House Bill

"These drugs halt the development of the reproductive organs, interfere with bone maturation, and may permanently stunt brain development (1-4). Marci Bowers, president-elect of , has admitted that every male child they have treated with puberty blockers suffers from permanent sexual dysfunction" (5).24 Jan 2023


Consequence of early intervention puberty blockers 


🧵Mediocre Druid

"I definitely now see blockers as something that actually help cause suffering. I already had low mood and body issues (including relating to weight in "womanly" areas) when I started at the tavistock, and guess what blockers did? It made both of those things worse"

🧵 https://twitter.com/bloominanna/status/1074222025558900736?s=19

Reddit

GenderGP

12 year old on cross sex hormones following three years of puberty blockers, UK: Helen Webberley, a GP in Wales, has set up a private gender clinic and recently started treating children, a “handful” of whom she has started on cross-sex hormones, including a 12-year-old.

“He had been on puberty blockers since the age of nine,” said Webberley. “He would have to now wait until 16 to get testosterone. This child has always been a boy, never worn a dress, always played with boys. He was so ready, his mates are starting puberty and he’s desperate to start puberty"

Husband Mike WebberleyA "reckless" doctor who wrongly prescribed puberty blockers to a transgender nine-year-old child after a ten minute chat on Skype has been struck off.

Michael Webberley’s treatment of 24 patients was deemed a "catalogue of failings"

..."the teenager was immediately prescribed levels of testosterone that would normally be administered only to an adult, after a period of steady escalation over the course of two or three years.

“Not only did GenderGP prescribe this top-end dosage to a testosterone-naive child, but they did so by directing a ‘loading’ [double] dose at the commencement of the treatment,” 

The "“dangerously high” levels of hormones could have resulted in sudden death

"One teenager was prescribed testosterone without any consultation of medical records. They took their own life a few months later."

'But No One Does Surgery On Children!'

Susie Green, formerly of Mermaids, sent her child, Jackie, to Thailand for 'sex reassignment' surgery as a 16th birthday present
After a child announces they are trans and soon after has a mental health crisis resulting in an overdose, the mother seeks out a therapist who reassures her "“Look, basically this is so easy to address. We just get him into counseling. We start him on hormones. You get your mind around the fact that you’ve always had a boy; you just didn’t know that you had a boy.” She helped us see that this, actually, even though we were in crisis, it wasn’t a crisis."
"He finally began T when he was around 12½. But the [chest] binders that worked when he was 9 are not working anymore when he’s 12. He got some kind of a skin infection"
"he was wearing multiple binders, multiple shirts, a hoodie on top, and he was at a point where he was not coming out of his room..."

Sounds like affirmation and a performance enhancing steroid was not fixing everything, but whatever, the kid had a radical mastectomy.

"Dr Fischer performed my son's top surgery when he was 12!"

Jazz Jennings:"Jennings' use of puberty blockers meant doctors had to be innovative "So there wasn't enough tissue to work with when it came to the surgery, it was very challenging to find a doctor, a surgeon who was willing to perform the operation on me just 'cause I'm such a difficult case. They’re using the tissue I have, the peritoneum, and also, they may take a skin graft as well," she explained. "I say it's going to be like a patchwork vagina, Franken-vagina. So yeah, as long as it's functional, that's all that matters."

Jazz's surgery took three surgeons nearly five 
hours. "There was just an unfortunate event and setback where things did come apart, and there was a complication," she said. "I had to come back in for another procedure, but it was just all part of the journey. The good thing though is that it was only cosmetic and external so it wasn’t too dramatic." 


📽Jazz Jennings discussing this on T.V. https://youtu.be/ifAR_hXNxp0

● https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/05/openly-support-maiming-children-lgbt-activists-claim-criticizing-kills-trans-people/


● https://www.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/79i5q5/i_have_no_clue_what_to_do_daughter_cant_get_the/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share


🧵
● https://www.kelseycoalition.org/pubs/Lupron-Victim-Advocate-Issues-Urgent-Warning

Detransitioning & the Censoring of James Caspian's study of it



we often hear that puberty blockers are always completely reversible, when that simply isn't true."

● https://www.peaktrans.org/psychotherapist-blocked-from-studying-trans-regret-takes-case-to-the-european-court-telegraph-05-02-21/


● https://www.peaktrans.org/fifty-trans-people-tell-therapist-of-regrets-the-sunday-times-10-02-19/

● https://twitter.com/ScottNewgent/status/1359145343263387652?s=19


Detransitioners and trans people's thoughts on childhood transition;

When sons become daughters - parents of transitioning boys speak out on their own suffering

● https://twitter.com/mothergender/status/1391847314898120707?s=19

https://twitter.com/FtMdetransed/status/1388441441341526017?s=19

● https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00918369.2021.1919479

● https://twitter.com/elegationvain/status/1377747445745025024?s=19

https://twitter.com/ImWatson91/status/1341136351719284742?s=19

● https://twitter.com/detransgayguy/status/1370527910633869321?s=19

● https://hormonehangover.substack.com/p/top-surgery-regret-part-1?r=7bjvz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter

● https://youtu.be/fDi-jFVBLA8

● https://youtu.be/1bV8AaeYKjQ

● https://youtu.be/7FRUDwDmkm0

● https://youtu.be/hXE8AZZJaj0

● https://www.thestranger.com/features/2017/06/28/25252342/the-detransitioners-they-were-transgender-until-they-werent

● https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct0hyx

● https://thecritic.co.uk/the-detransitioners/

● https://www.transgendertrend.com/detransition/

● https://www.piqueresproject.com/

● https://youtu.be/OsPsKt-zW2U

● https://youtu.be/JmUnO_40U7c

Or see the #detrans on Twitter 

The Tavistock scandals and resignations

● https://www.peaktrans.org/governor-quits-blinkered-tavistock-clinic-the-times-23-02-19/

● https://www.channel4.com/news/children-have-been-very-seriously-damaged-by-nhs-gender-clinic-says-former-tavistock-staff-governor

● https://www.peaktrans.org/therapist-raised-alert-at-troubling-practices-at-tavistock-clinic-the-times-12-10-19/

● https://www.peaktrans.org/therapist-raised-alert-at-troubling-practices-at-tavistock-clinic-the-times-12-10-19/

● https://www.peaktrans.org/therapist-raised-alert-at-troubling-practices-at-tavistock-clinic-the-times-12-10-19/

● https://www.bbc.com/news/health-47359692

https://www.peaktrans.org/children-misled-at-gender-clinic-the-times-20-07-19/

● https://www.peaktrans.org/why-i-was-right-to-blow-the-whistle-on-the-tavistock-clinic-over-puberty-blockers-jo-bartosch-telegraph-05-12-20/

● https://www.peaktrans.org/nhss-tavistock-clinic-in-court-battle-over-gender-transition-the-times-08-10-20/

● https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/feb/23/child-transgender-service-governor-quits-chaos

● https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338885615_Why_I_Resigned_from_Tavistock_Trans-Identified_Children_Need_Therapy_Not_Just_'Affirmation'_and_Dr

Mermaids 

● https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3883880/Parents-bitter-battle-child-s-gender-Father-brands-controversial-transgender-charity-meddlers-case-mother-dressing-son-pfive-girl.html

● https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/07/03/mermaids-leading-children-up-the-trans-path/

● https://metro.co.uk/2017/10/08/charity-advised-mum-to-force-her-son-7-to-live-as-a-girl-6984649/

● https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4960080/Transgender-charity-banned-contacting-family.html

● https://panoramicgutterviews.blogspot.com/2021/03/mermaids-uk-charity-ban-as-boy-forced.html 

● https://www.transgendertrend.com/analysis-mermaids-press-statement/


Mermaids and suicidal ideation 


These claims regarding the weekly suicide of children who identify as trans are entirely fallacious 

● https://www.transgendertrend.com/suicide-by-trans-identified-children-in-england-and-wales/


● "Puberty blockers used to treat children aged 12 to 15 who have severe and persistent gender dysphoria had no significant effect on their psychological function, thoughts of self-harm, or body image, a study has found. However, as expected, the children experienced reduced growth in height and bone strength by the time they finished their treatment at age 16" https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n356

How to get puberty blockers, by Dr Wallace Wong

● Gender Therapy Doctor Admits to Advising Kids to Fake Being Suicidal to get Transgender Treatments 

Dr Wong (psychologist, not endocrinologist) on the number of trans children from the foster care system

● https://vimeo.com/326339802

Parental input overruled / grooming

Reddit moderator u/Drewiepoodle, a transwoman, is being called out for inviting 13 year old users to 'her' apartment to take drugs and hormones without medical supervision or their parents knowledge.

Reddit moderator offering hormones to 13 yr olds. https://t.co/oCYctOatTp

 https://twitter.com/Slatzism/status/1375946314278653952?s=19

● https://youtu.be/QAMar22S0ck

● https://www.bioedge.org/mobile/view/should-governments-overrule-parents-who-oppose-transgender-puberty-blockers/12975

● trans-child-taken-into-care-after-parents-refused-to-acknowledge-their-gender-13675749/

● https://www.lotuseaters.com/canadian-father-arrested-for-referring-to-14-year-old-biological-daughter-18-03-2021

https://www.transgenderabuse.org/post/do-you-think-you-re-trans-better-stop-talking-to-your-hateful-parents

https://www.peaktrans.org/scots-council-referral-for-parents-who-fail-to-support-trans-child-the-sunday-times-24-01-21/

But no one does surgery on kids!

● "At the time of survey, the mean (SD) age of postsurgical participants was 19 (2.5) years (range, 14-25 years)." https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2674039

● https://thevelvetchronicle.com/double-mastectomy-at-15-detrans-16-year-old-now-seeks-reversal/

● https://www.bioedge.org/mobile/view/13-year-olds-given-mastectomies-at-california-clinic/12816

https://twitter.com/transwomyn/status/1367947538385547272?s=09

● https://4thwavenow.com/2017/03/20/age-is-just-a-number-when-it-comes-to-genital-surgeries-on-minors/

● https://thepostmillennial.com/young-canadians-are-being-sold-gender-affirming-top-surgery-on-instagram









https://twitter.com/ImWatson91/status/1367277042111250432?s=19

https://www.peaktrans.org/children/

https://twitter.com/ScottNewgent/status/1367245263430057985?s=19

Phalloplasty ; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33663938/

Medical ethics





● "In recent years, the issue of transgender identity in children has leapt from the periphery of public consciousness to centre stage of a cultural drama played out in the media, courts, schools, hospitals, families, and in the minds and bodies of children. It is a kind of utopian religion with committed believers"

● Marcus Evans (formerly of the Tavistock)

● Puberty blockers do not alleviate negative thoughts in children with gender dysphoria https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n356



●  GENDER DYSPHORIA ENDOCRINE SOCIETY & PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINE SOCIETY GUIDELINES INTENTIONALLY HIDE RISK & HARM - an open letter https://www.genderhq.org/blog



The pressure on parents:

DO NOT DELAY. You have a moral responsibility as a parent to ensure the safety and happiness of your child as they grow up. If you allow them to go through their genitical puberty, you could very well end up with a dead child. Transgender people under the age of 25 are 5x more likely to commit suicide than their non-transgender peers, according to official statistics. This is directly related to trauma brought about by their puberty (if they went through their self-mutilating genetical puberty), and abuse that they might receive because of that, especially if they start *not passing as their desired gender* as a result.

courtesy of Transit ^^

Child Transition 

Vulnerability of 'looked after children' again - https://www.peaktrans.org/the-tangled-case-of-the-brothers-who-became-girls-aged-seven-and-three/

https://www.peaktrans.org/review-ordered-into-rules-on-child-gender-transition-the-times-10-02-20/

Top trans doctors blow the whistle on 'sloppy' care

The Bell case / Puberty Blockers 

● Dr David Bell reviews Tavistock data https://www.transgendertrend.com/tavistock-experiment-puberty-blockers-update/

● Puberty blockers draw further criticism https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l5647

● https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2020/12/11/puberty-blockers-consent-treatment-analysis-high-courts-ruling/

● https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9130157/The-physicians-testimony-led-High-Court-judge-ban-child-puberty-blocker-drugs.html

● https://www.transgendertrend.com/tavistock-experiment-puberty-blockers/

● Bone growth

https://www.peaktrans.org/puberty-blockers-stunt-bone-growth-of-children-the-times-03-02-21/

● Fact checking Jack Turban https://twitter.com/will_malone/status/1339107238372229122?s=19

MailOnline :

  • Puberty-halting drugs can harm a patient's brain and bone development;
  • Clinics are urging gender-changing teen girls to choose sperm donors to fertilise eggs before freezing them;
  • Medics are failing to warn about the infertility risks posed by puberty blockers;
  • Children who regret treatment find themselves 'locked' into new bodies;
  • Internet sites persuade autistic children they are transgender when they simply have 'identity issues'.

● Prof Levine, an American expert in the field of gender treatment, said puberty suppression medicine – also used for infertility, prostate cancer and to 'chemically castrate' violent sex offenders – was 'experimental' and the injections had not been scientifically established as a 'safe and effective intervention in the short or long term'.

● Medics warned there was a 'disproportionate number' of children across the world claiming trans identities who were in care, adopted, autistic, anorexic or had psychiatric or mental illnesses.

● He said 'there was no other field of medicine where such radical interventions are offered to children with such a poor evidence base'. And warning of 'life-long consequences', he said the vast majority of females on puberty blockers for two years had lower bone density than their peers.

● Prof Levine also said there were reports of impaired brain development and 'negative effects on IQ for gender-dysphoric children'.

● Nearly 100 per cent of children treated with puberty blockers, he claimed, went on to take cross-sex hormones, which trigger 'irreversible changes' such as hair growth and a deepening voice in females and the growth of breasts in males.

●Recent studies, he added, pointed to serious cardiovascular risks, including a four-fold increased risk of heart attacks in biological females and three times the risk of deep-vein blood clots in biological males. Prof Levine's submission said some fertility treatments on offer were 'highly experimental' while teenagers often did not want to go through invasive procedures such as egg freezing.

● 'Another complicating issue is the fact that freezing unfertilised eggs has a low rate of success,' he said. 'For this reason, certain practices are now asking minors to choose sperm donors to fertilise the eggs prior to freezing them. 'The ethics of asking a child to choose the genetic father for their future child (and creating and storing embryos) pose a host of highly problematic ethical issues.'

● Prof Levine said the medical treatments were taking place in such a 'toxic and febrile context that critical and cautious voices are shouted down as transphobic, hateful and engaging in conversion therapy'. 'Such a climate has created an intimidating and hostile environment where silence and acquiescence are the inevitable consequence. It is left to those of us at the end of our careers, who have nothing to lose, to voice our concerns.'

● Prof Levine said modern approaches to dealing with gender confusion were based on a 'cultural fashion' rather than science. And there had been no 'controlled clinical trials' – the gold standard of scientific testing – for puberty blockers. 'Scientific requirements for establishing an intervention's utility are well known in medicine,' he said. 'Advances are undertaken through carefully controlled clinical trials. Why should gender problems be considered an exception?'

● Prof Scott added: 'I am concerned that the current treatment regime practised by the Tavistock is exposing young people to significant risk of harm.'

● Prof Gillberg also criticised the practice of giving puberty blockers to the many autistic youngsters who are now presenting as transgender.






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