Tue Nov 15, 2022 – 3:51 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – For years, every whistleblower, critic, or academic who highlighted the dangers of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for children was shouted down by transgender activists. Books detailing these dangers, such as Abigail Shrier’s Irreversible Damage, were attacked as transphobic hate screeds and trans activists lobbied to have the book suppressed. While the number of children taking these drugs grew steadily, so did the loud insistences of the trans lobby: These drugs are reversible. They are lifesaving. And anyone who says otherwise is a liar and a bigot.
So what, I wonder, does that make the New York Times? In a lengthy report titled “They Paused Puberty, But is There A Cost?”, the Grey Lady asks questions that, only moments ago, were forbidden.
The report begins by citing the examples of children who were prescribed these drugs to prevent puberty: an 11-year-old boy who identifies as a girl; a 13-year-old girl uncomfortable with her body; an 11-year-old girl with depression who wanted to be a boy. The therapists and pediatricians had just the thing—puberty blockers. These drugs, the Times notes, “is usually framed as a safe—and reversible—way
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