1./ Jameela's puberty blocker meltdown. Today's Naomi Wolf award for BS goes to @jameelajamil for this legend where she claims blockers were given to lots of girls at her school in the 90s. It's hard to know where to begin with this level of inaccuracy. But here's a start.👇 
2./ The first science paper on the subject of a trial giving GnRH agonists (or puberty blockers) to adolescents was published in 1998 and was the subject of a 1996 C4 documentary. This highly experimental trial happened in Holland and NOT Jameela's school. Strangely enough.👇
3./ It was only in 2011 that the leading Gender Identity Clinic in the UK began its own experimental trials. They were criticised by the usual suspects ( hello Mermaids) for being too "cautious". They wanted to find out how "reversible" were the effects. 👇tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/about-us/news/…
4./ Jameela says puberty blockers were given to girls to stop heavy periods. Here's the NHS guide to treatments for heavy periods. Puberty blockers aren't mentioned because no doctor advocates their use for this. 👇nhs.uk/conditions/hea…
5./ The man who popularised giving puberty blockers to under 16s was Dr Norman Spack. He gave puberty blockers to a very few British kids who travelled to the US including that of Susie Green. He started doing this not in the 90s but in 2007. 👇
6./ Spack claims puberty blockers are totally reversible but here's a thread with just some reasons they probably aren't. No one has properly studied their impact on brain maturation. And in animal trials sheep given blockers suffered impairment. 👇
https://twitter.com/twisterfilm/status/1317536260857171970?lang=en
7./ Apart from anything else Spack can't know if they ARE reversible because in his own clinic he boasts that 100% of his patients go on to take cross-sex hormones. And just in case you're wondering he advocates much earlier use of those which everyone agrees aren't reversible.
8./ So, every claim Jameela made is unsupportable. Puberty blockers are likely NOT reversible, and no one can say for certain they are. They've been prescribed by Gender Identity clinics in Britain only since 2011, in the US since 2007, and are NOT given to treat heavy periods
9./ Why does this matter? Self-styled champions of trans rights like Jolyon Maugham or Jameela claim to have the interests of young trans peeps at heart. But if they don't bother to master the basics about treatments they advocate giving to kids....how much do they REALLY care?
10./ Jameela declared herself queer a few years ago. But the sheer carelessness about the powerful drugs people like her advocate giving to under-16s seems to me the queerest thing of all about the trans debate. bbc.co.uk/news/entertain…
11./ For more information about the Dutch trial and the subsequent Dutch Protocol this video by the wonderful Michael Biggs is a master class. 👇
12./ And as this Dutch article attests even the scientists who pioneered the original Dutch approach are now unhappy about the way their work is being misused. That tells you more you need to know than any playground gossip made up by Jameela. ad.nl/nijmegen/dring…
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