"potentially irreversible medical interventions that may have unknown lifelong consequences and efficacy"
The known consequences (sterility, destruction of functioning body parts, growing a beard, heart, bone, etc...associated harms) are already pretty bad. And the studies telling us how they are doing long term have either not been done …
"potentially irreversible medical interventions that may have unknown lifelong consequences and efficacy"
The known consequences (sterility, destruction of functioning body parts, growing a beard, heart, bone, etc...associated harms) are already pretty bad. And the studies telling us how they are doing long term have either not been done and/or are not being released. There were over 17,000 minors started on these treatments in 2017-2021 according to Reuters, here in the US. Where are they now?
One thing might be to track the hormone prescriptions. People are expected to take these hormones for life. Having a national registry to keep track of who is getting them every 3 or whatever months would give us information about who is getting them, who is staying on them, for how long, and who is prescribing most of them. For 18 and up, given the executive order. Right now they are just being given out and then, as Dr. Metzger (I think it was him) said in those videos of WPATH conversations, it is expected they'll just live happily ever after.
Maybe we owe it to these people to tell them what the outcomes actually are. And the young people who were told that these drugs are medically necessary even though no one seems to be able to show this. Even though the original Dutch protocol group is now saying this:
"potentially irreversible medical interventions that may have unknown lifelong consequences and efficacy"
The known consequences (sterility, destruction of functioning body parts, growing a beard, heart, bone, etc...associated harms) are already pretty bad. And the studies telling us how they are doing long term have either not been done and/or are not being released. There were over 17,000 minors started on these treatments in 2017-2021 according to Reuters, here in the US. Where are they now?
One thing might be to track the hormone prescriptions. People are expected to take these hormones for life. Having a national registry to keep track of who is getting them every 3 or whatever months would give us information about who is getting them, who is staying on them, for how long, and who is prescribing most of them. For 18 and up, given the executive order. Right now they are just being given out and then, as Dr. Metzger (I think it was him) said in those videos of WPATH conversations, it is expected they'll just live happily ever after.
Maybe we owe it to these people to tell them what the outcomes actually are. And the young people who were told that these drugs are medically necessary even though no one seems to be able to show this. Even though the original Dutch protocol group is now saying this:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39716168/ .