Tue Nov 22, 2022 – 3:26 pm ESTTue Nov 22, 2022 – 3:27 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – A woman who once attempted to live as a man recently spoke out against the use of puberty blockers on children, warning against their long-term side effects and motivations behind pushing so-called “gender affirming care” on children.
Cat Cattinson, a musician and molecular biologist who formerly “identified” as a man, told Laura Ingraham on Fox News that she was “grateful I was not affirmed” during her years of gender confusion, as she explained some of the long-term side effects of hormonal suppression.
“Puberty blockers have been used for other conditions before gender dysphoria, but there have never been any clinical trials or controlled studies on their use in children with gender dysphoria,” Cattinson said in the interview. “Given that they’re administered later in this cohort, there are some increased risks such as osteoporosis, stunted brain development, and infertility.”
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Cattinson told Ingraham that she began to identify as “trans” at the age of 13. However, she did not pursue any “gender affirming care” as a child “because I was not affirmed by my pediatrician,
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