Reuters fact check debunks right wing BS about 5-year olds taking sex-changing hormones....
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-children-hormones-idUSL1N2LE1UZThe claims appeared on Facebook following debates around the rights of children to transition when they identify as transgender after an exchange between Senator Rand Paul and new assistant health secretary Rachel Levine (here).
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There are different options and stages for transitioning, including social transition, puberty or hormone blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender-affirming surgery (here).
The Endocrine Society’s clinical practice guidelines for gender dysphoria and gender incongruence (here) recommend against puberty blocking and gender-affirming hormone treatment in prepubertal children. For those meeting the diagnostic criteria, puberty blockers are recommended as an initial treatment only after adolescents show first signs of physical changes in puberty. Its guidelines for sex hormone therapy refer only to adolescents and require the individual to have sufficient mental capacity to give informed consent.
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s (WPATH) standards of care, advises physical interventions such as puberty suppressing hormones only for adolescents, when pubertal changes have begun. The only type of transition discussed by the association for children is social transition, where a child can change aspects like their name, clothes, pronouns, or hairstyles.
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Essentially, there is no medical guidance that supports five-year-olds taking hormones or undergoing sex-change procedures. Gender reassignment surgery is widely restricted to adults over the age of 18. The only guidance for children this young are noninvasive guidelines, such as social transitioning (here).
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I swore it was all true. All of it. The welfare moms with Cadillacs. The people buying vodka with food stamps. The people dancing and cheering in New York on 9/11. And of course, giving hormones to 5 years olds. "Damnit. I didn't want to have a Robert. I wanted a Roberta. Here, Roberta... Can I call you Bobbie? Take your hormones. Hey, they're special. Flinstones Chewable hormones!"
These rat bastards can't even tell the truth on anything. Ever. When they fucking set their minds on ruining people's lives, they gladly make up every fucking lie and fish story they can. Nothing but fucking lies. Everytime they open their mouths or type, lies. And how many fucking people buy into this shit? "Well, the Republicans said..." So the fuck what?! They're so dishonest they should be quadruplets. If a Rethug said "You know, the sun rises from the east and sets to the west," I'd immediately seek a second opinion.
But, I know. Gotta protect mythical 5 year olds from mythical hormones. That's more important than protecting real 5 year olds from real guns.
