U.K. reversal of hormone therapy, puberty blockers for youth call N.S. rules into question

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Weather’s role in wildfires in Atlantic Canada | SaltWire #weather #climatechange #wildfireseasonIt was early into her second meeting at the IWK that the psychiatrist told Dee she was ready to provide a reference to the endocrinologist for hormonal therapy.“But I’d done some research and my reaction was, ‘whoa, you don’t even know me.

“I can’t think of another area of pediatric care where we give young people a potentially irreversible treatment and have no idea what happens to them in adulthood,” pediatrician Hilary CassCass was the chair of the medical team tasked by the United Kingdom’s National Health Service with reviewing its gender-affirming care treatment of youth.is a 388-page report released last month after the team spent four years reviewing not just the U.K.

The University of York’s review found a paucity of evidence that the promised positive outcomes from the prescription of puberty blockers and hormonal therapy actually occur or that the majority of those questioning their gender identity as teens would continue into adulthood without medical intervention.

gave notice that puberty blockers would no longer be “routinely available” and that its clinicians would instead be directed to and provided the funding required to work with the complex mental health needs of youth experiencing gender dysphoria. They are about the evidence that exists in this moment of time for the treatment of children and youth.

“At this point our daughter was not of legal age yet but was getting pretty darn close,” said her father. They discussed hormone treatments, mastectomy to give Dee a more male-looking chest and phalloplasty, a series of surgeries that can result in creating a penis and lengthening the urethra to allow a trans man to urinate while standing up.

“ were concerned about that. Originally, we wanted our daughter to go to the IWK because we believed at that point that there was counselling and psychological supports available for people experiencing gender dysphoria. To look at what other issues might be.” “ you overscheduled your child with extra curricular activities and COVID was a blessing and allowed him to discover his true male self and that you need to accept it, that this is the law,” recalled the mother.

This is inline with WPATH guidelines that state for children and youth only one letter of approval from a member of the assessing health-care team is required and parental approval is not if “their involvement is determined to be harmful to the adolescent or not feasible.”

 

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