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Puberty Blockers and Suicide
The original Dutch studies argued that there was a psychological benefit to going on the puberty blockers. But when JIDS tried to replicate the Dutch within that study, we didn't get those data back until late 2020 in a preprint, but officially published in 2021. And actually, when using quantitative measures, proper measurable stuff, they found no psychological benefit to the young people on puberty blockers. Even by the subjective quantitative measures, the self-reports from those young people, it was a really mixed bag as well.