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Let's attempt to collect all the medfagging about troon issues in one thread. Discussion about shitty studies used to push a biological basis of gender ideology is also welcome.
To start, please accept this autistic infodump about puberty blockers.
Puberty Blockers: Harmless And Reversible, Apart From A Bit of Osteonecrosis
Some side effects from Lupron (a puberty blocker currently still in use for "trans kids"):
What Lupron does to your mitochondria:
And here is a Swedish public broadcasting documentary detailing the case of a child treated with hormone blockers who developed osteoporosis.
Doctors at the gender-pushing hospital that treated the child then tried to cover it all up. The whole documentary is worth a watch. Here's another gem they uncovered:
I suppose Swedish public broadcasting producers are all right-wing incel TERFs.
To start, please accept this autistic infodump about puberty blockers.
Puberty Blockers: Harmless And Reversible, Apart From A Bit of Osteonecrosis
Some side effects from Lupron (a puberty blocker currently still in use for "trans kids"):
Almost 20% of the women who completed the survey reported some degree of osteoporosis, and 16% reported cracking or brittle bones, 42% reported toothaches (9% severe) and 26% had cracking teeth. Osteonecrosis was reported by 3% of the respondents. Skin and hair symptoms were common and affected a sizable percentage of the respondents as well. ...
As expected by a drug that induces a rapid menopausal state, vasomotor symptoms with temperature dysregulation were prominent afflicting ~90% of the respondents. Severe hot flashes and night sweats were reported by over half of the study population... Hypoglycemia was reported by about 15% of the women, while hyperglycemia was reported by about 6%. Similarly, increased hunger and thirst were prominent at least 50% of the population, along with rapid weight gain (mild 19.2%, severe 25.9%)....
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The brain is a major target of and source for steroid hormones. ... The prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, and amygdala, responsible for regulating directed behavior, memory, and emotion, have high densities of estrogen receptors. Depleting estradiol would be expected to have a significant impact on these functions, and it did. It is here that we see some of the most troubling and least well appreciated (by the medical profession) side effects associated with Lupron. A significant percentage of women reported severe psychological disturbances ranging from depression and anxiety (>50%) to suicidality (15% severe to life-threatening). Visual or auditory hallucinations were experienced by ~12%, with >6% reporting moderate severe issues. Moderate to severe frontal cortex issues like dulled or inappropriate emotions, lack of motivation, impulsiveness were reported in 25% to over 50% of respondents. Moderately to severely altered mental states (delirium, disorientation, confusion) were reported by 6%-25% of the women. Moderate to severe diminishment in memory capacity was reported by at least a third of the women.
What Lupron does to your mitochondria:
Steroid hormones regulate metabolic flexibility at the level of the mitochondria. Estradiol, the most frequently studied among the steroid hormones, plays a pivotal role in determining how food fuel is converted into cellular fuel or ATP. When we eliminate estradiol with medications such Lupron and other GnRH agonists or antagonists, or when we remove a woman’s ovaries, depleting her primary source for estrogen synthesis, metabolic flexibility diminishes significantly.* With the lack of metabolic flexibility comes a number of health issues, some noticeable, like weight gain, and others less noticeable, at least initially, like cardiac and neurodegenerative diseases.
What puberty blockers do to your bones:When forced to finally publish some of their findings, researchers disingenuously emphasized that puberty-blocked children experienced no drop in bone density. They implied that simply maintaining density during adolescence is a good thing. It’s not.
“Bone density should NOT BE MAINTAINED during adolescence. It should be BUILDING,” endocrinologist Michael K. Laidlaw explains. “This ‘treatment’ with puberty blockers is leading these adolescents to a much higher risk of early osteoporosis and fractures.”
According to endocrinologist William Malone, “Humans acquire more than half their bone density they will ever have during their teen years. This is the most critical time for long term bone/skeletal health.”[ix]
In the Tavistock study, after two years on puberty blockers, significant percentages of children had bone density levels of clinical concern. An analysis of the data by Dr. Michael Biggs found that for the hip, one third of the children had very low bone density scores (Z-scores below -2.) For the spine, over a quarter had very low scores (below -2, with some even below -3.)
Despite the impact of puberty blockage on bones, Tavistock did not collect data on fractures for children in its care. Biggs heard of one patient who started blockers at age 12 and had 4 broken bones by age 16. If that child’s Z-score was below -2, that along with the history of fractures would meet the diagnostic criteria for pediatric osteoporosis.[x] Nor is there any tracking of long-term impacts after children become adults.
What puberty blockers do to your brain:
Researchers from Glasgow University teamed up with Norway’s leading gender identity clinic in a study that compared the performance of sheep in a complex maze which they learned to navigate in order to get food. The “teen-age” sheep who were not given puberty blockers easily found their way through the maze after an absence. Those who were given puberty blockers did not; their spatial memory was impaired.
While the researchers focused on the impacts of puberty blockers on memory, they also noticed distinct emotional impacts. Rams given puberty blockers were more emotionally reactive after blockers were stopped than rams that were not given them. The scientists concluded that “perturbing normal hippocampal formation…may also have long lasting effects on other brain areas and aspects of cognitive function.” (direct link to study) ...
Doctors in Brazil did gather cognitive data for one boy in their care who was put on puberty blockers at age 11. A reduction in Global IQ (GIQ) was observed. “At the end of 28 months of treatment, speed processing and memory remain lower than before GnRHa treatment,” they reported. The patient “presented a decrease in their overall intellectual performance after the onset of pubertal block, pointing to immaturity in her cognitive development.” (Link to original study: look how buried the IQ stuff is among notes about the boy's voice register, and how blase the writers seem to be about a kid potentially being brain damaged by pharmaceuticals. That's pretty standard for this field)
Another animal study (brackets mine): "Here, we investigated the effects of leuprolide [a puberty blocker] on reproductive function, social and affective behavior, cognition, and brain activity in a rodent model. Six-week-old male and female C57BL/6J mice were injected daily with saline or leuprolide (20 μg) for 6 weeks and tested in several behavioral assays. We found that leuprolide increases hyperlocomotion, changes social preference, and increases neuroendocrine stress responses in male mice, while the same treatment increases hyponeophagia [reduced eating in new environments, a common anxiety symptom in rodents] and despair-like behavior in females. Neuronal hyperactivity was found in the dentate gyrus (DG) of leuprolide-treated females, but not males, consistent with the elevation in hyponeophagia and despair-like behavior in females. These data show for the first time that GnRH agonist treatment after puberty onset exerts sex-specific effects on social- and affective behavior, stress regulation, and neural activity."
And here is a Swedish public broadcasting documentary detailing the case of a child treated with hormone blockers who developed osteoporosis.
Doctors at the gender-pushing hospital that treated the child then tried to cover it all up. The whole documentary is worth a watch. Here's another gem they uncovered:
I suppose Swedish public broadcasting producers are all right-wing incel TERFs.
