We Know But They Don’t

We know the Standard of Care and what puberty blockers do but the general public doesn’t have a clue and because of their ignorance we are being persecuted and sadly I feel that stopping trans children from taking puberty blockers.

Puberty blockers linked to lower suicide risk for transgender people
The finding suggests that a major — and politically controversial — aspect of trans health care for minors could help reduce the community’s disproportionate suicide risk.
NBC News
By Tim Fitzsimons
January 24, 2020


Transgender individuals who received puberty blockers during adolescence have a lower risk of suicidal thoughts as adults than those who wanted the medication but could not access them, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Pediatrics.

“These results align with past literature, suggesting that pubertal suppression for transgender adolescents who want this treatment is associated with favorable mental health outcomes,” the study states.

The finding suggests that a major — and politically controversial — aspect of transgender health care for minors could help reduce the trans community’s disproportionate risk of suicide.

“Puberty blockers” are a type of reversible medication injection or implant that pause puberty. These drugs are prescribed to children who experience early onset puberty and for transgender youth experiencing gender dysphoria. Natural puberty resumes when the injection wears off or the implant is remove.

That message is not being spread cisgender people think that they are reversible and they have no idea the Standard of Care requires hormones to be held off until they are old enough to make an informed consent.

What we need is education.

What you should know about puberty blockers, a standard treatment for trans youth
Insider
By Canela López
December 10, 2020


[...]
On December 3, the UK's High Court ruled that children under 16 are not old enough to consent to medical treatments such as hormone blockers – a common gender-affirming treatment for trans youth.

The landmark ruling came after Keira Bell, a 23-year-old patient, was prescribed hormone blockers for her gender dysphoria, and later changed her mind.
[…]
What are puberty blockers?
Puberty blockers are a medical procedure used to delay puberty traditionally prescribed to pre-teens at ages 10 to 11, per the Mayo Clinic.

While everyone is born with primary sex characteristics like sexual organs, secondary sex characteristics including body hair, breasts, and a deeper voice all develop after puberty.

Transgender kids who do not want to go through the "wrong puberty," but are too young to start hormone replacement therapy* (HRT) to change their primary sex hormone, are typically prescribed puberty blockers.

Notice, “but are too young to start hormone replacement therapy,” why are they to young to start hormones therapy? It is because they are too young to give an informed consent.

Puberty blockers do not cause permanent changes to an adolescent's body
Puberty blockers, unlike HRT, do not cause permanent changes. They instead give a child, guardians, and their medical provider time to come up with a plan of action for their treatment.

Essentially, these blockers press a pause button on puberty, a transition period which can be a traumatic experience for trans youth to go through.

We need to educate the public the difference between hormones and puberty blockers, so I charge you to educate the public every chance you can. I know for many of us we hide in the shadows and rightly so avoid coming out but if we really care for the new generation of trans children we will speak up for them… their lives depend upon us.

I urge you to contact your legislators if a bill is introduced in your state legislature, write letters-to-the-editor, and speak up when you hear mean.

*Okay this is another one of my pet peeves.
There is a very big difference between Hormone Replacement Therapy and Hormone Therapy or Cross-gender Hormone Therapy.

Suppose you are rushed to an emergency room with very painful leg pain and you say that you are on Hormone Replacement Therapy, well the healthcare providers are thinking micrograms (0.0001 grams) verse milligrams (0.001 grams) or a thousand times less than the doses that we are taking.

So they would not be thinking deep vein thrombosis (DVT) right off and part of the clot could break off and kill you.

If you read any medical journals or research papers you will see that they either use hormone therapy or cross-sex hormone therapy and there is a reason for that, to avoid confusion.

I know a lot of us don’t like admitting that we are trans but we have to be truthful to our healthcare providers.