reversible /rɪˈvəːsɪb(ə)l/ adjective able to be turned the other way round. "a reversible pushchair seat" (of the effects of a process or condition) capable of being reversed so that the previous state or situation is restored. "potentially reversible forms of renal failure"
A year ago, My daughter asked for PBs, claiming “they are reversible, why wont you let me have time to think about this?”I brought her highlighted published papers on the side effects and risks (instant menopause:, hot flashes, worsening depression, irritability, bone development, sexual development, brain/emotional development and high correlation to CSH) After our talk, she said “i didnt know”. She never asked for them again.
Now a year later she questions of she really feels like a boy. Or maybe I wont forever, maybe Im just scared to be in the world as a woman. What a difference a year of real development makes.
I have gone over and over this issue in my head, wondering how it was possible that the medical community could be so disingenuous in the face of such potential harm to children and the lack of a rational basis for their use. We received the standard "pause button" line from the gender clinic after they prescribed blockers following a 1-hour Zoom call with my son, plus the words of concern about the difficulty passing if we didn't act immediately. He was 14 at the time, and so unstable that they subsequently recommended a neuropsych evaluation and a mood stabilizer. We originally consented, but I didn't feel comfortable and started the lonely and distressing research path that all parents who question seem to find themselves on. Getting answers from the clinic about the safety of blockers, the evidence, the logic, was impossible. It took almost a year to get my child off of them — partly because I couldn't get my husband to agree and partly because the clinic put him on a 6-month dose when they ran out of the 3-month. Ultimately, his own behavior and my relentless hounding got him booted from the clinic until he was stable and "re-evaluated," rather than any acknowledgment from them or epiphany on the part of our son. Despite my complaints, they continue to provide the same misinformation to parents — nothing mentioning concerns or even the slightest controversy. I requested that they test my son's FSH and LH levels to see if his system was recovering but they refuse to do so before June 2023 — a full year and a half after he was due for the next dose. I'll need to have the tests done at an outside clinic once my son is more stable. Then we'll have a bit more information about just how reversible this "treatment" is. It sickens me to think that we may have unknowingly consented to serious, permanent harm to our child. No parent should have to live with this regret.
Heres something a bit tangental to the subject. I promise, this will go somewhere. I was talking to a colleague yesterday who was informing me he would be coming in late to take his dog in to be spayed. I said “she isnt spayed yet, isnt she about a year old?” He said, “yeah, shes about a year. They recommend waiting until after their first heat cycle. There have been a lot of demonstrated health benefits of allowing them to mature first. Especially for their bones and joint”.
Let that sink in. We allow DOGS to fully mature before sterilizing them.
Thank you for speaking out. For a future topic, I would like to know how you and your colleagues interpret this phenomena of the medical community so blindly following the affirmative care pathway, and how all of the major medical associations could be so on-board with so little apparent internal conflict. This goes beyond the laziness and greed that brought us the opioid epidemic. The information is out there in plain sight now and yet there's no backing down in much of the world.
Gender ideology propaganda is widespread through public high schools. I’ve seen it plastered on the walls of the guidance officers who counsel troubled children. When I asked one guidance officer about puberty blockers she said they were totally safe and 100% reversible. There is a very high mountain to climb in pushing back against this insanity. Thank you for your contribution Dr Wilson.
Thank you Dr Wilson. I sent your Open Letter to my MPs, both state and federal, and to a radio station and my GP. I was excited to hear your letter mentioned on a UK YouTube channel I follow. Thank you for your work, it is much appreciated.
So powerful. Clinic should go on to say that it is better for these children to have a future where they can fully pass as the opposite sex they were born as, so that they can live a lie their whole life with their sexual partners while being infertile and unorgasmic. What a happy future that will be! But at least their selfies will look great and they won’t be outed!!!
I have hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, which is a naturally occurring pituitary issue that Lupron causes when given to adolescents. I wrote about my experience and the data I gathered on giving your child this condition under the assumption that they will figure out what gender they want to be when they grow up??? https://jameslinehan.substack.com/p/i-went-through-gender-affirming-care?s=w
Thank you so much for discussing this issue. Please, please continue to do so. Most people have no idea of what is happening and would be horrified if they knew. An ever increasing number of young people will suffer lifelong consequences, and their parents, siblings and other family members suffer with them.
Good news - A new report into childhood gender transition from Florida Dept of Health will be a useful resource. They conclude "that several services for the treatment of gender dysphoria – i.e., sex reassignment surgery, cross-sex hormones, and puberty blockers – are not consistent with widely accepted professional medical standards and are experimental and investigational with the potential for harmful long term affects." Full report available here: https://ahca.myflorida.com/LetKidsBeKids/
Considering this study, wouldn’t it mean that (unless diagnosis in children is incredibly superior) ‘at least’ 30% of these children would detransition. So either these detransitioners are deluding themselves when they say they were never trans, or a big percentage of the these children were not ‘born’ trans, but ‘made’ trans and medically harmed for no reason? And how do we know who they are?
Love how you blatantly spread the idea that "puberty blockers aren't reversible" by bringing absolutely no statistics on it to the table and instead "pointing out" that they tend to not be reversed. Which proves, in absolute, nothing about the actual status of PBs. This is the most disingenuous article I have read in years, sheesh.
I hope this question hasn't been asked already, but I had this conversation with a very Left-wing, "trans affirming" type friend recently (who also happens ton be a Biochemistry graduate) and she insisted that in the case of trans kids, the PBs work as a pause as they do in CPP cases, and asserted that an individual who takes them and then elects to continue life as the opposite sex to their birth sex and take CSH treatments etc. will then go on to experience the puberty of their *chosen* sex.. This does not seem to be readily apparent in the discussion as it stands, and I was curious. Do the 98% of PB 'customers', let's say, who go on to receive CSHs also stop taking the PBs, or do the PBs continue to be part of their "treatment"; and if they do cease to take the PBs, does taking the CSHs lead to them experiencing the puberty of their chosen sex??
A year ago, My daughter asked for PBs, claiming “they are reversible, why wont you let me have time to think about this?”I brought her highlighted published papers on the side effects and risks (instant menopause:, hot flashes, worsening depression, irritability, bone development, sexual development, brain/emotional development and high correlation to CSH) After our talk, she said “i didnt know”. She never asked for them again.
Now a year later she questions of she really feels like a boy. Or maybe I wont forever, maybe Im just scared to be in the world as a woman. What a difference a year of real development makes.
I have gone over and over this issue in my head, wondering how it was possible that the medical community could be so disingenuous in the face of such potential harm to children and the lack of a rational basis for their use. We received the standard "pause button" line from the gender clinic after they prescribed blockers following a 1-hour Zoom call with my son, plus the words of concern about the difficulty passing if we didn't act immediately. He was 14 at the time, and so unstable that they subsequently recommended a neuropsych evaluation and a mood stabilizer. We originally consented, but I didn't feel comfortable and started the lonely and distressing research path that all parents who question seem to find themselves on. Getting answers from the clinic about the safety of blockers, the evidence, the logic, was impossible. It took almost a year to get my child off of them — partly because I couldn't get my husband to agree and partly because the clinic put him on a 6-month dose when they ran out of the 3-month. Ultimately, his own behavior and my relentless hounding got him booted from the clinic until he was stable and "re-evaluated," rather than any acknowledgment from them or epiphany on the part of our son. Despite my complaints, they continue to provide the same misinformation to parents — nothing mentioning concerns or even the slightest controversy. I requested that they test my son's FSH and LH levels to see if his system was recovering but they refuse to do so before June 2023 — a full year and a half after he was due for the next dose. I'll need to have the tests done at an outside clinic once my son is more stable. Then we'll have a bit more information about just how reversible this "treatment" is. It sickens me to think that we may have unknowingly consented to serious, permanent harm to our child. No parent should have to live with this regret.
Heres something a bit tangental to the subject. I promise, this will go somewhere. I was talking to a colleague yesterday who was informing me he would be coming in late to take his dog in to be spayed. I said “she isnt spayed yet, isnt she about a year old?” He said, “yeah, shes about a year. They recommend waiting until after their first heat cycle. There have been a lot of demonstrated health benefits of allowing them to mature first. Especially for their bones and joint”.
Let that sink in. We allow DOGS to fully mature before sterilizing them.
Thank you for speaking out. For a future topic, I would like to know how you and your colleagues interpret this phenomena of the medical community so blindly following the affirmative care pathway, and how all of the major medical associations could be so on-board with so little apparent internal conflict. This goes beyond the laziness and greed that brought us the opioid epidemic. The information is out there in plain sight now and yet there's no backing down in much of the world.
Gender ideology propaganda is widespread through public high schools. I’ve seen it plastered on the walls of the guidance officers who counsel troubled children. When I asked one guidance officer about puberty blockers she said they were totally safe and 100% reversible. There is a very high mountain to climb in pushing back against this insanity. Thank you for your contribution Dr Wilson.
Thank you Dr Wilson. I sent your Open Letter to my MPs, both state and federal, and to a radio station and my GP. I was excited to hear your letter mentioned on a UK YouTube channel I follow. Thank you for your work, it is much appreciated.
Thanks Dylan. You’re doing great work and it’s much appreciated.
So powerful. Clinic should go on to say that it is better for these children to have a future where they can fully pass as the opposite sex they were born as, so that they can live a lie their whole life with their sexual partners while being infertile and unorgasmic. What a happy future that will be! But at least their selfies will look great and they won’t be outed!!!
https://feministlegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/https_bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com_public_images_15ebbd37-3cba-4dfd-b193-3ded7c7baab1_790x606.png
I have hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, which is a naturally occurring pituitary issue that Lupron causes when given to adolescents. I wrote about my experience and the data I gathered on giving your child this condition under the assumption that they will figure out what gender they want to be when they grow up??? https://jameslinehan.substack.com/p/i-went-through-gender-affirming-care?s=w
Thank you so much for discussing this issue. Please, please continue to do so. Most people have no idea of what is happening and would be horrified if they knew. An ever increasing number of young people will suffer lifelong consequences, and their parents, siblings and other family members suffer with them.
Good news - A new report into childhood gender transition from Florida Dept of Health will be a useful resource. They conclude "that several services for the treatment of gender dysphoria – i.e., sex reassignment surgery, cross-sex hormones, and puberty blockers – are not consistent with widely accepted professional medical standards and are experimental and investigational with the potential for harmful long term affects." Full report available here: https://ahca.myflorida.com/LetKidsBeKids/
https://academic.oup.com/jcem/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1210/clinem/dgac251/6572526
Considering this study, wouldn’t it mean that (unless diagnosis in children is incredibly superior) ‘at least’ 30% of these children would detransition. So either these detransitioners are deluding themselves when they say they were never trans, or a big percentage of the these children were not ‘born’ trans, but ‘made’ trans and medically harmed for no reason? And how do we know who they are?
WPATH version 8 includes a whole chapter on EUNUCHS. Read it.
Love how you blatantly spread the idea that "puberty blockers aren't reversible" by bringing absolutely no statistics on it to the table and instead "pointing out" that they tend to not be reversed. Which proves, in absolute, nothing about the actual status of PBs. This is the most disingenuous article I have read in years, sheesh.
I hope this question hasn't been asked already, but I had this conversation with a very Left-wing, "trans affirming" type friend recently (who also happens ton be a Biochemistry graduate) and she insisted that in the case of trans kids, the PBs work as a pause as they do in CPP cases, and asserted that an individual who takes them and then elects to continue life as the opposite sex to their birth sex and take CSH treatments etc. will then go on to experience the puberty of their *chosen* sex.. This does not seem to be readily apparent in the discussion as it stands, and I was curious. Do the 98% of PB 'customers', let's say, who go on to receive CSHs also stop taking the PBs, or do the PBs continue to be part of their "treatment"; and if they do cease to take the PBs, does taking the CSHs lead to them experiencing the puberty of their chosen sex??