It’s always easy to “fix” something you’re struggling with at the expense of something that’s pretty good. But it always bites you back. Always.
It’s not easy (not easy at all!) to stop, and start working on the main thing, but that’s the only way to deal with it — otherwise you fuck both things beyond repair.
And I’m not talking just identity and puberty, I’m talking all kinds of mental problems, relationship problems, family problems etc being solved at the expense of physical health (and for some people the other way around — physical problems being solved at the expense of mental health).
There resiliency margin of your “good” part is not that huge, and once it’s exhausted (and be sure the life will exhaust it even without your “help"), they both start hammering you.
lemmysmash@piefed.social 14 hours ago
So the plan is:
Yeah, this makes perfect sense.
Where are your first, 3rd and 4th point coming from? You don’t delay depression. You try to give them time to figure which the right puberty for them is to avoid depression of going through the wrong one. You don’t give puberty blockers to then let them go through their chromosomal puberty anyways.
lemmysmash@piefed.social 10 hours ago
Yes, but then you go through the depression of fucked up hormonal system, fucked up bones (as we see now), and fucked up shitton of other organs.
Yeah nah that’s not how it works, troll
ShrimpCurler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
Looks like you have no idea what gender dysphoria is or what the current science says about handling it.
lemmysmash@piefed.social 10 hours ago
Science was once using this:
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Look: instantaneous cure! For sale by all druggists!
You obviously can do whatever the fuck you want with your body. But the OPs article proves once again that one must think with their own head before pumping their body with “the current thing”.
ShrimpCurler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
That’s the beauty of science, it’s self improving…
This article specifically, is a meta review of studies that have already been available and all experts in the field should already know (I’m no expert and I’ve known about this for years) that puberty blockers do this. As with pretty much everything anyone does, there’s always a cost and a benefit and you should always weigh them up carefully with big life altering decisions. For people with gender dysphoria some delayed bone growth is no big deal compared to being allowed to be themselves.