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Etenne, as with everything that is about science: it's extremely complicated. And no, I'm not an expert on the subject and have no intention of becoming one. But one thing I do know is that people who are experts on the subject, people whom I find more credible than others purporting to be experts, having spent a lifetime listening to scientists and immersed in science, have condemned, to varying degrees of "unconditionally" the practice of puberty blockers or, at least, think the last word on the subject is very far from written. So, what that means, is that they think that some medical professionals are playing dice with kids' lives, having seriously and flagrantly transgressed all ethical boundaries and think it should stop, and possibly should be made to stop, at least until sufficient research demonstrates reasonably unambiguous results, something that CAN happen in science and which is routine in the course of conducting science. The last thing you should do is to adopt a default position that, when taken, supports doing damage (which these processes will ALWAYS inflict) upon physical bodies as opposed to exploring other avenues for quieting febrile but terribly uninformed minds in the grip of serious delusion. That that enterprise, i.e. the mental health one, is far from universally satisfying is not an argument for the destruction of physical processes of the body, which includes the brain. |