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As #newsnight investigates puberty blockers, a reminder that Susie Green, CEO of trans kids, and lottery funded, charity Mermaids, last year tweeted that we should give more of these drugs to children & not be bothered if they become sterilised - or even if they're actually trans 
#newsnight found that suicidal thoughts among young people INCREASED when they were given puberty blockers. The whole 'a trans child is better than a dead child' argument is even more mendacious than the bogus 40+% attempted suicide rate figures for trans kids
Children are supposedly given puberty blockers to give them time to decide if they want to take sex change hormones or not. #Newsnight finds 100% of kids at GIDS who took them went on to take hormones. GIDS admits it doesn't know the reasons for this statistical anomaly
#newsnight finds the GIDS minimum age for giving puberty blockers to confused children was lowered to 11 AFTER they found out that suicide and self-harm rates INCREASED in kids who took them. Noone at GIDS can explain why
In light of the #newsnight revelations that suicide & self-harm thoughts in children actually significantly increase when they take puberty blockers, #r4today speaks to expert Marcus Evans who says some medical professionals are destroying kids' lives by trying to transition them
Newsnight found that puberty blockers lead to suicidal thoughts, that 100% of kids who take them go on to take cross-sex hormones & that the effects are probably not reversible. Dr Helen Webberley has written this, which contradicts all the evidence found medium.com/@helenwebberle…
