Rachel (formerly Richard) Levine suggests children should take life-altering puberty blockers and even undergo reassignment surgery. Levine thinks these are critical, life-saving tools. They are actually dangerous and extreme tools. The Levines of the world say puberty blockers are not damaging or permanent, but that isn’t what Science says.
Scientific Studies Suggest the Danger These Tools Present
Independent Sentinel In a Dec. 2 preprint of a study from the Tavistock and Portman National Health Service Foundation Trust, all but one child treated for gender dysphoria with puberty-blocking drugs went on to take cross-sex hormones to alter their sex characteristics permanently.
The study also showed that children’s bone density and normal growth flatlined with puberty blockers as compared to their peers. Also, participants reported no improvement in their psychological well-being.
The findings support a growing body of evidence showing the harm and irreparable damage of experimental medical treatments for children with gender dysphoria.
Between 2013 and June 2019, FDA recorded 41,213 adverse events, including 6,379 deaths and 25,645 “serious” reactions in patients who took the hormone blocker known as Lupron — the same drug given to children who say their gender identity is not consistent with their biological sex.
Lupron was originally Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved to treat prostate cancer, but it’s now routinely prescribed for other conditions such as endometriosis and “precocious puberty” — i.e., puberty that begins too early (generally considered under age eight for girls, under age nine for boys). Many of these patients have experienced extreme side effects that shattered their health and their lives, including severe joint pain, osteoporosis, compromised immune systems, and mental health issues such as severe depression and even suicidal ideation. The FDA has received 24,000 reports of adverse reactions, about half of which the agency has deemed very serious.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on a younger patient’s trauma after receiving Lupron treatment for precocious puberty. Now 22, Brooklyn Harbin was injected with Lupron at the age of 10, and soon found herself in such severe pain that she ended up a wheelchair while still in fifth grade.
“Lupron or any of the similar types of medications should never be used in someone under the age of 21.”
But of course, all gender dysphoric patients who might be placed on Lupron to delay puberty are years younger than 21. Plus, there’s a serious added danger to using Lupron merely to stop normal puberty in a gender dysphoric child. Such treatment is “off label,” meaning the FDA hasn’t approved the drug for this purpose, nor is there reliable research showing the safety of such use.
The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) points out that puberty blockers alter a patient’s body in myriad ways:
In addition to preventing the development of secondary sex characteristics, GnRH agonists arrest bone growth, decrease bone accretion, prevent the sex-steroid dependent organization and maturation of the adolescent brain, and inhibit fertility by preventing the development of gonadal tissue and mature gametes for the duration of treatment.
It’s a dangerous experiment on children who are too young to make these decisions. It prevents children from outgrowing gender dysphoria which most will do.
Biden’s Assistant Secretary for Health, Rachel Levine, says reassignment surgery and puberty blockers for KIDS is “lifesaving, medically necessary, age appropriate, and a critical tool” pic.twitter.com/OwSOA3cjj8
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Another marxist actor overplaying his hand. His days are numbered.
Not as long as Biden is in office.
The better the fit for a ghost train, the more appropriate for the leftie crack heads.
Same here.
Right after SCOTUS legalized same sex marriage the social, political and legal focus changed to exalting these transgender freaks as a victimized group. That was never true. Who cares if a man wants to dress as a woman or a woman as a man. It may be unconventional but one is free to dress however you want. However when you try to force others to go along with the masquerade by calling you by different pronouns that goes too far. Legally changing your name to one of the opposite sex is one thing but it does not biologically/genetically change your gender. And trying to force others to call you by pronouns of the other sex impinges upon the free speech rights of other individuals. Free people will push back. Free people will not be intimated by threats of violence from “woke” mafiosi. Big Pharma backs this woke initiative because they plan on cleaning up in business by selling these drugs. Young college educated liberals back it because they’ve been in four year re-education camps that turned them into useful idiots. The Democrat Party supports the transgender cause because it’s desperate for intersectional support as it loses its collective mind.
And next comes paedophilia acceptance.
I just have a few words to say about Rachel Levine. Barf, gag, nauseated and puke. Now I really am sick!!
This example of pure, adorable, gorgeous, feminine pulchritude ALWAYS gives l’il ol’ me a chub…that’s it, that’s all…can’t help mawwwwwself !!! I just SWOON in ecstacy every time I see this beauty…
BELOVED JESUS!!!!!
LOL! Control yourself, Amboy. It probably still has its dick.
“Puberty Blockers”…I dunno about the ones they give the girls, but I know the one for the boys is the same med given to men guilty of rape to chemically castrate them. The demonrats are just shills for big pharma, getting kids to take meds for their entire life, enriching their pockets.
And that became blatantly evident with the Covid pandemic.
cant fix stupid …or ugly
How did we get here, and what’s next on this trajectory?
Paedophilia acceptance.
That has already started. The left wants paedophiles to be called MAPs, an acronym meaning Minor Attracted People. Pelosi is always saying “it’s for the children”, she don’t care about kids, and neither do
most leftists.
“Minor attracted people?” Sheesh!
Stop the Planet… I want off….
They should shave her ass and make her walk around backwards.
We live in a very strange time of gender confusion and people believing that they can change their gender to the opposite gender. This may not be a popular view, but as far as I am concerned Rachel Levine is a man pretending to be a woman and a man who tries to identify as a woman.
Yes, he is.
Pedophile Biden’s govt is filled with rabid CHILD HATERS who want to destroy the purity, innocence and goodness of children.
The evil, perverted, demented, twisted .monsters want to destroy innocent children’s bodies, minds, souls, spirit and normal sexuality.
I was shocked and horrified when I read the heartbreaking story of a man who had been pressured into taking the hormones and surgery and of the condition his body was left in and the constant pain that he suffers.
He bitterly regrets what was done to him. He blames the wicked, evil propaganda deceivers 100%, He wants to go back to being a normal man, but he can never go back. His body is DESTROYED.
Many committed suicide and many others are suicidal. These anguished, exploited people were subjected to lies, deception and propaganda and pressured into taking the gender altering drugs and gender altering surgery.
They were never told the extreme destruction it would do to their bodies. That many would be left with constant physical pain.
When these exploited people begged the clinics and doctors who perpetrated the abnormal, unnatural horrors on them, the clinics and doctors refused to answer their calls for help.
The doctors and clinics had accomplished their sick goal: The complete destruction of the bodies and spirit of the deceived.
One Latina girl was pressured into changing her gender. This caused her to be suicidal. She eventually succeeded in committing suicide by throwing herself onto the railway tracks of a fast coming train.
R.I.P. Beautiful, innocent child.
The gender altering doctors and clinics are murderers.
The girl loved her mother with all of her heart.
This is for her mother who loved her daughter more than life itself. And for all those who loved someone more than life itself. The tears inside never stop.
Scars In Heaven – Casting Crowns (Lyrics)
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LOL! Perfect.