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#682 – Rebutting John Oliver on “Trans Rights”

The Counsel of Trent

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Is Hormone Therapy Safe for Children?

Hormone therapy was traditionally used to help children who have a rare condition called precocious puberty. These therapies would help children whose development was going too fast like developing secondary sex characteristics in children under the ages of eight and nine. But it was never used to pause healthy development in teenagers who have a normal cycle of puberty. And countries in Europe that I mentioned earlier like Finland, Sweden, England, they've stopped this treatment in minors because their own research showed it's not healthy for children. So this is not a case of just ignorant conservatives in the US as all of her would have you believe. Instead, the social democracies, all of her no doubt idolizes in Europe, actually follow

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