I always thought it was basic common sense that giving a child puberty blockers would cause a plethora of health issues. I have even had to explain this to certain people. It’s amazing how literal false information permeates society and is presented as fact.
Something I find fascinating is the gap between USA & Canada vs. everyone else on the topic of trans treatments, and there's yet another gap between the Anglosphere and the rest of the world. The further you get from an english-speaking country, the more conservative and cautious countries are about the entire topic. You'd never know it if you just asked US/Canadian media though.
I remember reading a headline that South Dakota banned gender affirming care for minors, and people were flipping out acting like South Dakota is "Literally Hitler!!!"
Googled out of curiosity, and the entirety of Europe agrees with South Dakota. There's only like 3 countries in all of Europe who might allow gender affirming care between the ages of 13-18 under very specific circumstances, with heavy peer review by leading health institutions of each specialty case.
The most interesting case is Sweden. Sweden actually supported trans rights long before everyone else and has been at the forefront of trans treatments since the 1970's. However, as of one year ago, Sweden noticed an anomaly with their statistics that led them to slam on the brakes with everything.
Look into Sweden's Karolinska Institute and basically they saw two shifts happen that alarmed them:
1) The number of requests for trans treatments spiked, going from 8900 cases over 23 years, to 820 cases in one year alone. This is despite the fact that politically, Sweden has always supported such treatments, so there was no political or cultural shift within Sweden that could possibly explain this spike.
2) The main demographic seeking trans treatments shifted. It used to be men from varying ages, and then suddenly, teenage girls were the primary demographic requesting treatments. They cite a
1500% increase in the amount of teen girls seeking such treatments. Either Sweden's collective drinking water is fucked or teen girls are being teen girls and conforming to whatever stupid shit their friends like.
So here we have a European country that looks at the data, sees an alarming shift that they can't explain, and they decide the best course of action is to put the brakes on any treatments for minors until they've come up with an adequate explanation as to what's going on. After all, the previous stats about what percent of the population was trans were so obscure and minor that you could have entire cities devoid of a single trans person, so odds are that if they start passing out treatments left and right, they're likely to misdiagnose and mutilate the genitals of the majority of those patients. Seems reasonable on Sweden's part to respond this way, right?
The moment you go to the USA or Canada though, a similar act by South Dakota is treated like it's pure evil and should be shunned. For whatever reason, perhaps because of the influence of groups such as WPATH, the Anglosphere in general is more unanimously supportive of trans treatments, without any concern or consideration that these treatments might actually be fucking people up, with USA and Canada being the worst about this.
USA and Canada will often spout that "
all the leading experts agree with this treatment so you're transphobic if you're against it!!" This leaves out two important details though:
1) This is only true if we restrict the research solely to USA and Canada. Yes, research fairly unanimously pushes for gender affirming care and the like in these two countries, but that unanimous finding dies the moment you leave these two countries, with the rest of the world expressing deep concerns about all kinds of treatments.
2) Don't know if any of you have ever bothered digging up a research paper on gender dysphoria, but it's similar there: the research papers themselves tend to frequently include disclaimers at the end asserting that this is all new research, should be approached with caution, that further research is necessary or that repeat experiments would be ideal, but then by the time these research papers reach the journalists, all of those cautionary measures and concerns expressed by the researchers are spontaneously missing from the headlines.
All it takes is comparing USA and Canada to the rest of the world and it becomes blatantly clear that the two are being bombarded with a lot of propaganda on this topic. Why? Fuck if I know. Maybe some powerful senator has a femboy fetish or some shit.
