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323. Live from Perth with Geraldine Hickey and special guests Michelle Telfer, Kathryn Ross and Charmaine Papertalk Green - part two

The Guilty Feminist

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Puberty Blockers Are Harmful

There's a condition called precociou puberty that occurs where puberty starts at an earlier age than at shorge. We use exactly the same medication for the trans kids to bloc their puberty as we would for these sisgende young people. No one's ever jumped up and down to say, they're harmful. Thes things that we don't know about it. But as soon as they're used in trans young people, and as soon as it has enabled a huge number of trans young people to thrive... then we feel the resistance and the claim that puberty blockers are harmful when we have ample evidence that they are not.

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