I thought you just agreed that we shouldn't be giving these medicines to kids. Did you suddenly change your mind?Why are we suddenly afraid of “making mistakes” in the medical field?
In my mind it’s worse to have a treatment and withhold it than it would be to administer “treatment” that seems to be efficacious for a significant percentage of “sufferers”, but has drawbacks and ethical mineflieds.
The time of doing nothing more than hand them a mirror and a box of tissues, might come again, but it is not that time at present.
Secondly, the medical field knows the problems with these medicines. They also should know that there isn't any evidence that these medicines actually help the so called sufferers. So they are prescribing harmful medications that do nothing to actually help anyone. They are doing more harm than good. You might as well be describing opioids to kids for their mental health issue for all the good puberty blockers do and all the harm they cause.
And yes the present is the perfect time to stop medicalization and start therapy instead.
Upvote
0