This is also an ideological stance.
Please see https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0092623X.2022.2... for an evidence-based review that contests this.
Edit: I'm not permitted to reply to the comment below, but I would like to point out that it's a rather shallow dismissal of a well-researched paper. I would recommend actually reading the whole paper, at the very least to challenge one's preconceptions on this issue. Personally, I find such challenge to be an intellectually stimulating experience.
- https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.01.20241653v...
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03064...
- https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2017.0052...
For example. There's definitely still studies to be done, but there is good evidence that puberty blockers are safe and reversible that this author seems to have missed
Do you really expect to simply point at a single-author paper that came out last week to “win” this discussion? Why the hour-old account focused purely on promoting trans hate?