Puberty blockers to be prescribed more cautiously in New Zealand after review
Doctors will be told to show caution in prescribing puberty blockers in New Zealand after a review found strong evidence for their effectiveness and safety was lacking.
The Ministry of Health today released its long-awaited evidence brief and a position statement on puberty-stalling hormones.
“The evidence brief found that the evidence supporting the effectiveness and safety was limited and of poor quality,” the ministry said.
As a result of the findings, the ministry is outlining an expectation that greater caution is used in prescribing the medication. Further safeguards may be introduced after consultation with interested parties.
Other countries have also taken steps to restrict puberty blockers out of concern about a lack of robust evidence and rising prescribing rates.
How do you tell The Spinoff they’ve been wrong?
How do you tell Stuff, RNZ and vast swathes of the Public service it’s all been a bit of a bullshit fad?
How do you tell the Woke Wellington Wankers, those Transphobe purges and cancelation social media lynchings may have been a tad overdone?
And most importantly, how do you do it without exciting transphobic right hate groups?
it is hard to acknowledge a middle class identity cult has become a fad, but the stats don’t lie…
…Ian Powell’s thoughtful critique of puberty blockers is an important contribution here.
For the millionth time. The idea that there are some women who believe they are men and some men who believe they are women and some people who believe they are neither and some who believe they are both is as uncontroversial to me as the range of eye, skin and hair colour in the human species.
As a matter of basic human curtesy we should always refer to a person by what ever pronoun and name they wish us to use and we should make it as easy as possible for people to legitimately be able to gain the paper work they need that states their gender and identity so they can go about the lives like everyone else.
This is a liberal progressive democracy, and everyone is promised the same agency and we want our Trans whanau to enjoy the same fruits of human rights we all enjoy, and for those who identity is a real issue, we want them to flourish, however when a middle class identity cult takes over the cultural debate to try and enforce a medical solution to their gender dogma, that’s where the adults in the room have to collectively stand and say, ‘hold on’.
There are genuine issues here that we have ignored in the rush to endorse woke Trans dogma, however what we don’t want is the excesses of the middle class cult to excite the transphobic right hate groups into any belief of justification.
My issue has never been anti-Trans, my issue is the radioactive manner in which the Trans activists and 4th wave feminists went about alienating every voter.
I know many staunch Kiwi Feminists in NZ who feel deeply uncomfortable with the extremeness of some woke Fourth Wave feminists and who feel intimidated to express their true thoughts for fear of being torn to pieces.
Remember how we on the Left had people sacked from their jobs during the social media lynchings of 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 for questioning Trans Dogma?
Isn’t it hilarious the first tiny bit of power our activists had they used to alienate almost everyone? Thank Christ they are all on Bluesky now which is the equivalent of screaming into a cushion that no one else can hear.
It is the woke middle class Identitarians who have generated the political backlash we saw in America and globally.
Here is how spastic the Trans debate became in America.
Trump consistently claimed Democrats would allow illegal aliens sex changes in prison, what’s the truth?
Yes the American Prison system allows those transitioning to access the medicines they require because that’s a health issue, but how many have actually accessed sex change operations?
2 FUCKING PRISONERS!
When challenged on this, Kamala Harris said “I will follow the law”, rather than explaining that there are only 2 examples of this and both were domestic prisoners, not ‘illegals’.
She didn’t point this out because the Dems were terrified of insulting the woke by mentioning the Trans debate in any way that didn’t worship them.
The Trans debate – thanks to the toxicity the Woke spent 8 years injecting into this issue, was manipulated by the Right to paint us as gender extremists FFS when only 2 prisoners have ever accessed it!
When you replace class and citizenship as our guiding values on the Left for identity politics, you make it impossible to get to the 51% democratic majority required to win power.
We want our Trans whanau to be able to enjoy the same agency that everyone is promised in a liberal progressive democracy, but the extremism of our woke middle class activists drove the debate off a cliff and now they are pissed off at the rest of us for not supporting them in driving off the cliff???
While I’ve been vocal against their woke alienation, I’ve ended up being one of the few still willing to stand with the Trans community against this Government threatening community funding for any amateur sports team having a Trans player because while I disagree with the Trans alienating tactics, I disagree much more with punishing community funding for their mere existence.
This whole debate needed to be far more rational and far less hating. Could the woke please go back to sleep?
We get it wokies, your manufactured identity is far more important than the common ground between us.
Meanwhile, the Planet is melting, global war looms and the economy is tanking. If we could just get back to those issues please?
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The heat on trans issues does seem to be cooling a bit which is good, I did not like it one little bit seeing my staunch lesbian allies of many years being denigrated by trans activists–the new women with cocks and balls–trans women to be accurate.
Like Bomber though I do support trans people being able to go about their daily lives without being actively discriminated against in terms of employment, government interaction and personal safety.
The history of NZ shows that spousal rape was not criminalised until 1985, “poofter bashing” was a common sport until well after Homosexual Law Reform was won by various campaigns and Gay Marriage finally legislated for.
Progress is achieved by unity in action, and trans people should realise support is a reciprocal process.
Its all been a bit Orwellian.
Trans-nephew is happier, that’s been great. Trans-nephew has not changed sex, cannot change sex.
Accepting trans-people cant depend on denying reality.
I wouldn’t normally have a comment about a persons right to be who they want to be so long as they don’t hurt anyone else in the process but fuck this. I mean c’mon? Why would anyone care if a person was, is, or will be who or what ever they want to be so long as they don’t go full evil and harm others for shits and giggles.
I’ve been around man. I’ve been here, and over there, and the most vile, dangerous fuckers I’ve ever brawled in car parks with were straight white agricultural types with mommy issues and a bully daddy. For them, give them an E, a box of kittens and a puppy dog. Sorted.
I have Gay friends and tranny friends and … I mean…. so what? Some are fun and some are arse holes and so fucking what? And there will always be the hissy fitters and hand bag swingers and they’ll get all upset and some get violent but for the majority of us, we shouldn’t give a fuck. This, is the 21st century and yet some of us are displaying all the patience of 15th century witch hunters. Didn’t they have the internet?
I’m convinced that allll this shit is directly to do with a lack of good drugs.
Get high, go party with that horse faced girl and her friends who too have whiskers = prejudices banished.
Hugs AND Drugs I say. The problem is when things are banned and banished a certain kind of societal rot sets in and is a bastard to heal.
The Guardian
Sugar Sweet: the pilled-up rave that united Belfast during the Troubles
” Thirty years ago, David Holmes and Iain McCready’s event brought together communities who hated each other but needed to vent their fear: ‘Religion wasn’t a barrier any more’”
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jan/01/sugar-sweet-rave-united-belfast-david-holmes-iain-mccready
Puberty blockers have been effectively banned in a number of European countries, since a lot of kids questioning their gender turned out to be a typical phase of puberty as opposed to them actually being trans. These drugs of course are extremely harmful and can cause sterility – hardly ideal to prescribe them to a confused kid (who are also easily manipulated by their teachers and/or parents).
https://cass.independent-review.uk/home/publications/final-report/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/04/13/belgium-netherlands-puberty-blocker-restrictions/
A Green Party issue I would think.
As the sibling of a trans person, I promise you coming out as trans in teenage years in most cases not a ‘phase”…
What’s more harmful for a teen? Taking puberty blockers when they thought they were trans and then stop taking them later, or a trans teen being denied puberty blockers and their untreated gender dysphoria causes them to harm themselves
I agree this is much too personal to be pulled to bits on a platform like this. Leave it to the people and their medical practitioners not the sordid political leaders who use it for their own trans phobic gains and the horrible Posy Parker’s of this world.
If you paid attention to the report that just came out, there is not enough known about the long term effects of pubity blockers. They could cause irreversible changes like hair growth or lack thereof or sterilization. That’s just a start. Bone,muscle density or breast problems.. etc etc. There is simply not enough known ATM and shutting down discussion like you just tried to do is the worst thing that can happen.