Comment on Puberty Blockers Temporarily Slow Bone Growth, Recovery Seen With Hormone Therap
lemmysmash@piefed.social 11 hours agoScience 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 11 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.
lemmysmash@piefed.social 3 hours 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.
ShrimpCurler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 minutes ago
Everything has side effects… It’s not your position to say weather they’re worth it or not.
All the research shows quality of life increasing with gender affirming care. So, you’re suggesting that a temporary delay in bone growth is worth a long term reduction in quality of life…