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Puberty Blockers

Puberty blockers are safe, well-studied, completely reversible, endorsed by credible medical and endocrinological associations, and effective at reducing dysphoria, anxiety, and depression.

• Public Broadcasting Service News: Korry 16
  • Everything you need to know about puberty blockers
  • Full-blown puberty is irreversible
  • Taking a gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonist, secretion of the sex hormones can be stopped and the onset of puberty suppressed so that the body does not develop secondary sex characteristics
  • This has been done safely for decades to suppress sex hormones in children who develop too early, a condition known as precocious puberty.** Suppressors have also been used to treat endometriosis, uterine fibroids, and prostate cancer.**
  • It was only in 2008 that the **Endocrine Society approved **puberty suppressors as a treatment for transgender adolescents as young as 12 years old. The Society, with members in more than 100 countries, has since declared that the intervention appears to be safe and effective. In 2011 the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), also issued Standards of Care for the treatment of patients with gender dysphoria, which include puberty suppression.
• Vries et a. 14
  • Smaller Dutch study on puberty blockers
  • All 55 participants were on par with or better than others their age when it came to things like anxiety, depression and body image, and none of them expressed regret as adults about their transitions or the choice to delay puberty.
  • Since puberty suppression is a** fully reversible medical intervention**, it provides adolescents and their families with time to explore their gender dysphoric feelings, and [to] make a more definite decision regarding the first steps of actual gender reassignment treatment at a later age
• Human Rights Campaign et al. 16
  • BIG report on trans youth and transition
  • Endorsed by the Human Rights Campaign, American Academy of Pediatrics & the American College of Osteopathic Pediatricians which affirms the validity of transgender youth, encourages appropriate care and respect for their transness and provides resources on how to do so.
  • Outlines TYPES OF TRANSITION: hormone blockers are the ONLY treatment used on adolescents and are COMPLETELY reversible.