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The biggest medical scandal of our lifetime is the “gender transition” of children. It is easy to debunk claims that GnRH agonists (puberty blockers) are “reversible”. Here are counter-arguments to some other talking points presented by trans activists:

The RAND Report is definitive evidence that children benefit from GnRH agonists and cross-sex hormone therapy.

Utter nonsense. The report states clearly “all outcomes were rated as having very low or low certainty of evidence.”

GnRH agonists are used to treat “cisgender children”. Therefore, it is acceptable to prescribe them to “transgender children”.

The approved uses (indications) of any drug can be found on its labeling information. When it comes to children, GnRH agonists such as Lupron are only approved (indicated) for the treatment of Central Precocious Puberty. They are not approved for treatment of children with Gender Dysphoria.

Even for its approved uses, patients prescribed GnRH agonists as minors report irreversible side-effects (see Further Reading).

Other off-label drugs are prescribed to minors.

Two wrongs don’t make a right.

While cases of regret or complications exist, these do not justify banning child “gender transition”, because other cases do not regret it.

The reason we have modern drug safety practices is due to a dark moment in history called The Thalidomide Scandal.

From https://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/thalidomide/first.html:

Thalidomide first appeared in Germany on 1st October 1957. It was marketed as a sedative with apparently remarkably few side effects. The Drug Company who developed it believed it was so safe it was suitable for prescribing to pregnant women to help combat morning sickness.

It was quickly being prescribed to thousands of women and spread to most corners of the globe. Nobody had any idea of what was to follow. Drug testing procedures were far more relaxed at this time, and although tests had taken place on thalidomide, they didn't reveal any of its tetragenic (roughly meaning causing malformations) properties. In most countries, drug companies were not required to submit testing results to the appropriate government agencies. The tests on thalidomide were conducted on rodents which metabolise the drug in a different way to humans. Later tests on rabbits and monkeys produced the same horrific side effects as in humans.

Towards the end of the fifties, children began to be born with shocking disabilities. It was not immediately obvious what the cause of this was. Probably the most renowned is Pharcomelia, the name given to the flipper-like limbs which appeared on the children of women who took thalidomide. Babies effected by this tragedy were given the name 'Thalidomide Babies'.

Not everyone who was prescribed thalidomide developed these severe complications. In some cases, it successfully treated morning sickness without any negative side-effects. These cases do not negate the anthropogenic harm caused by the prescription of thalidomide to pregnant mothers. The same can be said of puberty blockers.


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