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Yikes. "Do you think puberty blockers should ever be used in children?" This is the question for the panel made up of Michael Biggs, @TwisterFilm @ZUCKERKJ @stellaomalley3 1/
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Michael Bigss mentions the cowboys of @GenderGP who are selling these drugs online anyway. He calls for proper randomised controlled clinical trials. 2/
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Zucker mentions some obscure journal from aeons ago that says psychotherapeutic interventions are useless in the face of transsexualism - which is why drugs were considered. The kids Zucker saw in his Toronto clinic - he says hormones were the best they could do. 3/
Zucker calls himself a radical centrist in that he doesn't think one size fits all. Says he is opposed to doctors handing out prescriptions too easily - he advocates for exploration. "Isn't everyone's goal to reduce gender dysphoria?" 4/
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(Not sure how Zucker's comments will go down in this crowd - plenty of opponents of puberty blockers in the room today.) 5/ #GenspectBiggerPicture
As a gay man, says @TwisterFilm, "it looks to me like we are back to medicalising homosexuality." But as a science documentary maker, I look at Zucker's (presentation) and I think: nature provided puberty as a treatment for gender dysphoria... 6/
"Doctors are medicalising the solution to gender dysphoria," says @TwisterFilm. He says he doesn't think children should ever be given puberty blockers. Huge applause in the room. 7/
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Zucker explains why a randomised controlled trial of puberty blockers wouldn't work out: some parents wouldn't dream of putting their kids on blockers while the parents who *want* their kids on blockers wouldn't agree because of the possibility their kid might get the dud drug 8/
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"So where do we go from here?" @TwisterFilm agrees RCTs would be too difficult. "We've been talking about puberty blocker studies being done in good faith, but now it's being done by people like @jack_turban." It's too political, he says.9/ #GenspectBiggerPicture
"So where do we go from here?" @TwisterFilm agrees RCTs would be too difficult. "We've been talking about puberty blocker studies being done in good faith, but now it's being done by people like @jack_turban." It's too political, he says.9/ #GenspectBiggerPicture
@ZUCKERKJ says we need to do more research into the new phenomenon of ROGD. @TwisterFilm cites the early Gooren research that suggested there was a trans brain - that changed the debate because it felt like it was a bio issue. But it was never replicated. 10/
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