Originally a comment by Artymorty on Draw your weapons.

It’s the “two kinds of experts” problem: science-minded people, polite and overcautious to a fault with their criticism, try to rationalize puberty blockers like they’re antidepressants — they only discuss them in terms of potential mood improvement.

That’s because it’s not scientifically possible to evaluate the religious belief that our sexed bodies are profane while our “gender identities” are sacred.

The cultists who’ve taken over the gender clinics don’t even care if puberty blockers have a negative impact on the children’s mood. They don’t see puberty blockers as antidepressants, they see them the way they see all “gender medicine”: as a mandatory rite of passage to bond new recruits into the group.

The media has to stop playing games and being coy about the facts: they need to report that sex is real and binary and that “transgender identity” is a non-natural kind — a social construct that emerged from within a religious subcultural group. Journalists need to ask every single “expert” they consult about “gender” whether they believe in the facts of biology or not, in order to separate out the gender cultists from the fact-based experts in this field, who have so far been far too reticent to call out the pseudoscientific metaphysical beliefs that plague the trans movement.