Short term harms of puberty blockers ON CHILDREN

 

• Headaches, hot flushes, weight gain, tiredness, low mood and anxiety, reduction in bone density, bone fractures, blurred vision, vision loss.

 

• The Karolinska Institute (Sweden) has also reported liver damage, unexplained weight gains, mental health problems, spinal fractures, osteopenia, and failure to grow.

 

• Increase in behavioural and emotional problems in girls, including an increase in wanting to “deliberately try to hurt or kill self.”

 

Long term harms of puberty blockers on children

 

• Loss of fertility/sterilisation as ova & sperm won’t mature.

 

• Loss of sexual function and capacity to orgasm: young people given blockers at tanner from 10-11 yrs old who go onto cross-sex hormones will have reduced capability to orgasm, which may impact their ability to enjoy intimate relationships.

 

• Level of puberty resumption after blocker use is stopped: unknown.

 

• Effects on brain development: unknown. Concerns raised about negative impact on IQ, long-term spatial awareness, reaction time and missing out on a window for critical cognitive development.

 

• Impact on the growth of all major organs; heart, lungs, genital tissue etc.

 

• June 2022 the FDA received 60,400 reports of adverse reactions to common GnRH agonists, (puberty blockers), including over 7,900 deaths.*

 

Sources: https://www.aww.org.au/puberty-blockers-are-harmful#sources*