#Puberty

When administered to trans kids, "puberty blockers" should be referred to as “prison blockers" because cis puberty is not an actual puberty for trans kids, it's a prison that you
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most trans women don't start estrogen until our 20's or older, way past puberty. i would have developed *identically* to cis girls (apart from genitals) if i started injection hormones
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I started HRT when I was 23. In other words, I was going through puberty in the wrong direction for like a DECADE. And that's on the young side for
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Unpopular opinion incoming.A matter of months ago, the NHS were advising that puberty blockers were reversible. It is not unreasonable for the average person to take this on authority and
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I tweeted these three polls for a reason.Most people voted they had experienced some form of distressed regarding puberty. Only 1/3 voted they would not have delayed or stopped it
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“Stop giving children irreversible hormone treatments!”Children aren’t given hormones, they’re given hormone blockers to *prevent* the irreversible effects of cis hormones.Blockers buy time for kids to ensure the right hormones
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What really scares me as a 20 year old is the idea that kids in middle school and even elementary school are being exposed to the trans ideas of self
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Its horrible that 50-75% of girls who have ADHD go undiagnosed. ADHD presents differently in girls; girls symptoms don't often fit the stereotypical view of ADHD. One of the ways
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Transphobes know why they give puberty blockers to children, right? Like, it doesn't take a brain surgeon to understand this. Nigella Lawson had something lovely to say, and there's people
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The proposal that sports be divided into ‘performance pools’ undermines the very nature of competitive sport.https://twitter.com/terryazoome/status/1319955547391746049 Let’s say I am matched in an boxing competition with a male of the
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Now the average age for a first period is closer to 12, with one University of Cincinnati study reporting that about 10 to 15 percent of girls enter puberty at
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1/ I transcribed this morning’s very interesting BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour interview with Deborah Cohen regarding the recent NHS website updates for the description and possible side effects of
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Good afternoon. I wanted to talk a little bit today about what happens when puberty is delayed. If you look for this information in the context of transgendered individuals, you
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The number of people who proclaim, with absolutely no medical knowledge, that puberty blockers are "reversible" is a true triumph of marketing and dogma over education and critical thinking. Folks,
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I cannot tell you just how much this means to me. HRT saved my LIFE. I assure you with absolute confidence that I would be dead right now if I
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Going through the early stages of a second puberty while isolated alone in my house from literally everyone is truly the weirdest shit ever. All norms are different and even
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