Puberty is optional. That’s the message transgender rights activists and gender clinicians are communicating to children. If you’re going through puberty and you don’t like it, they say, just take puberty blockers and it’ll stop!
Puberty blockers, the experts tell us, are perfectly safe. The St. Louis Children’s Hospital informs children and parents that taking puberty blockers, which have not been FDA-approved for use in gender dysphoric patients, is “like hitting a pause button” on puberty. Likewise, the Boston Children’s Hospital calls puberty blockers “temporary” and “completely reversible.”
As someone who was put on Lupron, the most commonly used puberty-blocking drug, as a 15-year-old, I can say with confidence that these are lies.
Lupron is prescribed off-label and is intended to be used to treat conditions such as endometriosis or prostate cancer. The drug’s website warns of serious side effects: “Thinning of the bones … hot flashes/sweats, headache/migraine, decreased libido (interest in sex), depression/emotional lability (changes in mood), dizziness, nausea/vomiting, pain, vaginitis, and weight gain.” The American College of Pediatricians states in no uncertain terms that “transgender interventions,” including puberty blockers, “harm children” and can cause mental illness and irreversible physical harm. The list of potential side effects from puberty blockers includes “osteoporosis, mood disorders, seizures, cognitive impairment and, when combined with cross-sex hormones, sterility.”
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Given the experimental and harmful nature of puberty blockers, we ought to wonder why trans activists are pushing them onto children so aggressively. Consider the intended effects of puberty blockers: to prevent sexual maturation. When I was a 15-year-old and transitioning to female, strangers on the internet encouraged me to start puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones as soon as possible before my body was “poisoned” by puberty. I was cheered along in my transition, and the most cheers always came when I posted pictures of myself in women’s clothing — the skimpier, the better. At the time, I craved the attention. It made me feel good about myself when not much in my life did. I was exactly the kind of lonely, vulnerable boy internet pedophiles like to prey on, and I consider myself lucky I never met any of my adult “friends” in person. Their version of self-actualization was destroying their bodies for sexual fulfillment, and they wanted to convince children to do the same.
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All transition aims to warp healthy human bodies for sexual and aesthetic gratification. By relying on the fiction of gender identity , the trans movement has snuck this radical concept into the mainstream. Childhood transition, facilitated by puberty blockers, is the result. These children are being sterilized, mutilated, and sexually exploited. It needs to stop now.
R&I – TxPAT
