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The "medical" practice of handing out out puberty blockers and arbitrary hormones to every confused teenager who even suggests not fitting within traditional gender norms, is going to end up in the same chapter in the history books as when Inuits (apocryphally) drilled holes in skulls to let out the bad spirits.

Sometimes doing nothing (at least for a while) is good medicine.

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From brief reading it seems like therapy and ensuring that the young person has arrived at a mental state and maturity prior to beginning any medical treatment while proceeding prior getting too far into puberty is the current ethical standard. Maturity isn't binary its a spectrum. I don't understand why we can't proceed sensibly according to ethical standards and help people without giving random confused preteens hormones based on a 10 minute interview. This article reads as alarmist.

Not sure why this is downvoted?

sign of the times.

Because it contains a number of factually incorrect statements that have no relevance to the Bell case or treatment in the UK.

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