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She's full of shit.My moneys on she is confusing puberty blockers with hormonal birth control, which IS sometimes prescribed to regulate and lessen the severity of some periods.
...Wait holy shit i wonder how many people are also making that mistake/poor association. "well hormonal birth control is safe therefore hormone blockers probably are too"?????
True! But at least hormonal birth control has had decades of study and refinement under its belt and for most people it is safe and effective. Hormone blocking drugs are quite new to the pharma world and are already proving the side effects from being on them often outweigh the help for the serious medical conditions they were developed for.
I was a teen in the 90s. I only knew of one young woman-- African American-- who was on puberty blockers at one point. She said they gave her stress fractures in her teens. Knew a ton of girls who were on the birth control pill-- many for menstrual problems.
Perhaps it was prescribed for some children in the black community if there is any truth to her claim, because I've heard that precocious puberty is more common in that population, but who knows.