But while treating gender incongruence with puberty blockers is a relatively recent application, these drugs have been used onchildrensince the 1980s for slowing down puberty if it happens too early or too quickly. Currently, there's sufficient evidence to show the drugs are safe and well-tolera...
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In this essay, we consider the clinical and ethical implications of puberty blockers for pediatric gender dysphoria through the lens of “the child’s right to an open future,” which refers to rights that children do not have the capacity to exercise as minors, but that must be protected, ...
How Do Puberty Blockers Work? The most common medication for this process is gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) analogues. These drugs suppress your child’s sex hormones (testosterone and estrogen) during puberty. The most common puberty blockers include: ...
The evidence on the use of puberty blockers and hormones for children and young people experiencing gender related distress is wholly inadequate, making it impossible to gauge their effectiveness or their impact on mental and physical health, find two systematic reviews of the available research, pub...
blockers on sexual function, have “shaken up” many in the field. Yet she notes some doctors are responding by talking about how they might control or slow treatment, without mentioning the role mental-health professionals should play in all this. That they are discussing the risks at all ...
Since rapidly pro- gressing central precocious puberty may cause psychologi- cal stress and early epiphyseal closure and hence a compro- mised final height, early diagnosis is essential for timely treatment with puberty blockers. Therefore, differentiating incomplete precocious puberty and slowly ...
GIDS toldMedscape News UKit moved to offering puberty blockers from Tanner stage 2 after nearly a decade of consultation with international experts. It said the research protocol was designed at the same time to increase the growing international evidence base. ...
Teen Suing Doctors For Removing Breasts At Age 13, Putting Her On Puberty Blockers: Letter | Eastern North Carolina Now "...presenting Layla’s parents with the false dilemma that: 'would they rather have a live son, or a dead daughter?'" ...
The Court of Appeal in London on Friday ruled that doctors can give puberty blockers to children under 16 who wish to undergo gender reassignment, provided they believe adolescents are in a position to consent. The ruling overturns a decision in the High Court last year that said it was "...