Looks like you have no idea what gender dysphoria is or what the current science says about handling it.
Comment on Puberty Blockers Temporarily Slow Bone Growth, Recovery Seen With Hormone Therap
lemmysmash@piefed.social 1 month agoSo the plan is:
- delay depression / mask mental health challenges
- fuck up physical health
- wait until depression comes back, multiplied by the poor physical health
- “you’re adult now, darling, deal with it as you wish”
Yeah, this makes perfect sense.
ShrimpCurler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
lemmysmash@piefed.social 1 month ago
Science was once using this:
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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 1 month 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.
lemmysmash@piefed.social 1 month ago
That’s my point, I don’t see a benefit of solving one thing at the expense of another to be strong enough, because in the end both suffer anyway.
This is very common treatmemt in modern medicine — not just for this particular case, but in general, e.g. a very simplified case: let’s kill your liver a little with the pill to treat your headache a little.
And with hormonal things it’s just the next level of messing up with your body — simply because of the sheer amount of different systems affected by a simple hormonal shift. And again, it’s not specific to this particular topic, something like hormonal contraception, for example, is another case from the same cohort. Does it prevent unwanted pregnancies? — Yes, it does. Is it worth messing up with your body to avoid some other kinds of contraception? Eeeh… up to you, up to you.
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 1 month 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
lemmysmash@piefed.social 1 month ago
Whatever, block me.