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An unhappy distinction for New Zealand.
Doctors are prescribing up to seven times more puberty blockers for gender dysmorphia to young transgender patients in New Zealand than other similar countries, a new medical reseach paper has found.
The paper published by academics Charlotte Paul, Simon Tegg and Sarah Donovan, was published today in the New Zealand Medical Journal.
In their paper, “Use of puberty-blocking hormones for gender dysphoria in New Zealand: descriptive analysis and international comparisons”, the authors found that use here was approximately 1.7 times higher than in the Netherlands, and between 3.5 and 6.9 times higher than in England and Wales, and 3.9 times higher than in Denmark.
Not a race you want to win.
H/t Rob
You know that accusation from wellness advocates that allopathic medicine is just throwing drugs at the symptoms? I usually scoff at such charges, but sometimes it’s true. This is what they are doing. Rather than deal with the toxic effects of gender on adolescents, here’re some drugs to help them conform to expectations. That, and when you convince parents that their kids will kill themselves without treatment, this is how they can “do something.”