Comments by "Snuzzle" (@Snuzzled) on "Alabama BANS Medical Care For Transgender Youth" video.
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@captaintorch1238 None of that is true. If you take a child off puberty blockers, puberty proceeds as normal. We know this because we have used them for close to 40 years to treat precocious puberty.
Also, I agree it would be wrong to give transition medical treatment to a three year old. That never happens. Puberty doesn't even begin until 9 or 10, so why would anyone give puberty blockers to a 3 year old? Blockers are not given until tanner stage 2 of puberty, which typically occurs around age 11 to 13, and only when the child shows extreme and debilitating distress around the changes that are happening to their body. These medications are not given lightly.
For many children, yes, dysphoria does go away once puberty starts, BUT we also know that if dysphoria persists into puberty, it almost always (as in, over 95 percent of cases) persists through adulthood and the rest of their life. That's why we don't give blockers or HRT or surgery before puberty.
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