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New Study Shows Puberty Blockers May Cause Permanent Harm
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<blockquote data-quote="ThatRobGuy" data-source="post: 77650300" data-attributes="member: 123415"><p>Certain ones are intended "life changing alterations" the other ones are not.</p><p></p><p>One of the big ones they're looking into is impacts on bone density.</p><p>There are others</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gender-dysphoria/in-depth/pubertal-blockers/art-20459075[/URL]</p><p></p><p>If it turns out the person wants to continue with affirming treatment, then the life-long drugs taken at that point can have a pretty substantial risk profile with regards to how they impact certain internal organs like the liver and cardiovascular health. (including elevated cholesterol and increased risk of blood clots)</p><p></p><p>And that's something that needs to be considered as well, as part of this whole risk calculation.</p><p></p><p>While the defense usually given is "for the quality of life improvement, it's worth allowing people to make those risk calculations for themselves", people need to consider that within the context of what we know about people in the 15-24 age range.</p><p></p><p>Despite the 18-24 subset technically being adults, when it comes to that 15-24 age range, regardless of whether or not not it's a person with gender dysphoria or just your average young person, risk considerations and "thinking about the long term" isn't typically the strong suit of people in that age range (especially with regards to considering health risks). Virtually no 15-20 year old is thinking about "increased risk of liver damage and blood clots when I'm 40". I've never heard a high school sophomore utter he words "I shouldn't eat that, I've got my cholesterol to think about".</p><p></p><p>If you ask me now, as an adult in their 40's, "do you want to smoke cigarettes", my answer would be a definitive "no". However, the 16 year old me thought it was an okay idea, and continued to smoke until I was in my mid-20's despite it having a label on the box saying "this can give you cancer" because it gave me some sort of "social connection" I was looking for and the threat of "these health risks could pop up when you're in your 50's" was so far down the road that it wasn't even a blip on my radar.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ThatRobGuy, post: 77650300, member: 123415"] Certain ones are intended "life changing alterations" the other ones are not. One of the big ones they're looking into is impacts on bone density. There are others [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gender-dysphoria/in-depth/pubertal-blockers/art-20459075[/URL] If it turns out the person wants to continue with affirming treatment, then the life-long drugs taken at that point can have a pretty substantial risk profile with regards to how they impact certain internal organs like the liver and cardiovascular health. (including elevated cholesterol and increased risk of blood clots) And that's something that needs to be considered as well, as part of this whole risk calculation. While the defense usually given is "for the quality of life improvement, it's worth allowing people to make those risk calculations for themselves", people need to consider that within the context of what we know about people in the 15-24 age range. Despite the 18-24 subset technically being adults, when it comes to that 15-24 age range, regardless of whether or not not it's a person with gender dysphoria or just your average young person, risk considerations and "thinking about the long term" isn't typically the strong suit of people in that age range (especially with regards to considering health risks). Virtually no 15-20 year old is thinking about "increased risk of liver damage and blood clots when I'm 40". I've never heard a high school sophomore utter he words "I shouldn't eat that, I've got my cholesterol to think about". If you ask me now, as an adult in their 40's, "do you want to smoke cigarettes", my answer would be a definitive "no". However, the 16 year old me thought it was an okay idea, and continued to smoke until I was in my mid-20's despite it having a label on the box saying "this can give you cancer" because it gave me some sort of "social connection" I was looking for and the threat of "these health risks could pop up when you're in your 50's" was so far down the road that it wasn't even a blip on my radar. [/QUOTE]
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