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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

NEW STUDIES SHOW SERIOUS RISKS OF GENDER TRANSITION

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, News, Society & Culture

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

New studies are highlighting the potential serious permanent harms from using puberty blockers and cross sex hormones for those suffering from gender dysphoria. The push to put minors on a fast course to gender transition appears to be coming to an end as the public, legislative, and medical bodies are all reversing course.

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0:00.0

In the transgender conversation this is where the highway really jumped in the idea of giving minors

0:05.6

Medications that have no long-term track record of safety when it comes to what they're being used for often against parents' wishes and behind parents backs.

0:15.2

This is a conversation that since about this past month, the KAS report came out in the UK and what

0:20.8

did that do?

0:21.8

That said there needs to be an extremely cautious approach in giving kids these drugs because of the lack of the scientific literature.

0:29.4

And there's been a huge back off after that report and it continues this is the hill this is their

0:34.8

op-ed in the hill and they're starting to sound like this the reckoning over

0:38.0

puberty blockers has arrived and you go into this article and it says parents who have consented to these drugs for their children love their kids dearly,

0:46.3

but they've consented under entirely false pretenses.

0:48.8

The doctors who've advised them to say that puberty blockers are known to improve mental health, that they are even life saving, and that they're fully reversible and just give kids time to think.

0:59.0

None of this is true.

1:01.0

So this is what they're, this is

1:03.4

I mean these are strong words here and so the puberty blockers there's the

1:06.8

doctors are saying this on the pretense well we just give kids time they're

1:10.5

having you know they're wrestling with this this these things right now these

1:15.0

puberty blockers will give them time to think about what direction they want to go

1:18.0

well the science is saying different here's a study is looking at are these reversible and so they this is called

1:25.2

puberty blockers and we want to look this up puberty blocker and the aging impact of

1:28.8

testicular cell states and function and it says in there, here in we report the largest clinically

1:35.3

annotated juvenile testicular bio repository with all children with gender

1:39.6

dysphoria on chronic puberty block or, highlighting shifts in pediatric patient

1:45.0

demography in the US.

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