How are you defining medical consensus? Because if there are conflicting medical opinions and the vast majority don’t agree then I don’t think it’s correct to c

How are you defining medical consensus? Because if there are conflicting medical opinions and the vast majority don’t agree then I don’t think it’s correct to call it medical consensus. As for the England thing you can deflect with the politics if you want, but many countries (some that pioneered dysphoria treatments) are cautioning against puberty blockers and that more research needs to be done. https://ukom.no/rapporter/pasientsikkerhet-for-barn-og-unge-med-kjonnsinkongruens/sammendrag https://ukom.no/rapporter/pasientsikkerhet-for-barn-og-unge-... https://www.academie-medecine.fr/la-medecine-face-a-la-transidentite-de-genre-chez-les-enfants-et-les-adolescents/?lang=en https://www.academie-medecine.fr/la-medecine-face-a-la-trans... https://cass.independent-review.uk/publications/interim-report/ https://cass.independent-review.uk/publications/interim-repo... And here is the study that I believe England is using where 43 out of 44 patients didn’t find any help with puberty blockers https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0243894#abstract0 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... And here is a paper critiquing studies that have been done and accusing them of bias to promote a viewpoint https://accpjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jac5.1691 https://accpjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.100... You can use emotional arguments all you want but the science from what I see doesn’t show an overall help with puberty blocking drugs and I don’t think we do have enough long term evidence for people who aren’t hitting early puberty and are taking these drugs. What you’re mentioning from the 80s is like saying it’s totally safe to give everyone who wants chemo chemo because it helps people who have cancer. Puberty blocking drugs are useful in specific use cases, but giving them to kids who feel they are the wrong gender (which by the way, things kids say and what they actually feel are so freaking varied and again, most kids don’t know wtf they’re talking about until they’re much older) does not have full scientific consensus. How about you provide some links now to the OPs original argument of all the things they mentioned? If not then I think we’re done here as you are just throwing emotional argument after emotional argument as if the choice is between a shitty under researched drug on pre pubescent children who aren’t experiencing early onset puberty (which is the usage you’re talking about from the 80s) vs full on suicide.