In the Official Journal the news that triptorelin will be paid for entirely by the National Health Service «in selected cases in which puberty is incongruent with gender identity». Yet another homage to the LGBT ideology, which does not take health risks into account and will contribute to ignoring the moral data even more, endorsing any perception of the minor.
Triptorelin is a drug that, among the various uses, It is used to delay pubertal development in boys between the ages 12 and i 16 years. In Italy, already since 2013, the Careggi hospital in Florence uses it for those so-called cases of gender dysphoria affecting minors. In essence, the pubertal development of the child who says he does not recognize himself in his biological sex or who has some doubts about his sexual psychological identity is blocked and he is parked in a sexual limbo so that, some time has passed, clarify your ideas and decide which sex you "belong to" or proceed with surgical "sexual rectification" on the assumption that it is easier, as his sexual attributes have not yet fully developed.
Last year the Italian Medicines Agency (Aifa) had given his favorable opinion so that triptorelin was included in the list of medicines payable by the National Health Service. Il 13 July of 2018 the National Bioethics Committee, with only one dissenting vote, he had also blessed the use of this preparation. Last 2 March, In the end, in the Official Gazette we could read that this drug will be paid for by us taxpayers only for «selected cases in which puberty is incongruent with gender identity (gender dysphoria), with diagnosis confirmed by a multidisciplinary and specialist team in which psychological assistance is provided, psychotherapeutic and psychiatric is not conclusive". In short, in theory, this drug can only be used as extreme reason, when all other solutions have failed: but we know well that, a crack was made in the dam, soon the whole dam will collapse and therefore the use of this preparation will be increasingly widespread, without forgetting that, already in itself, puberty blocking is a problem.
Possible side effects of triptorelin they are strokes, cardiac pathologies, increase in blood sugar, constipation, sexual issues, diarrhea, dizziness, heachache, flushes, loss of appetite, nausea, insomnia, stomach discomfort, tiredness or weakness, vomit. And we are talking about harmful effects on adults. But that's not the point, given that each drug generally has side effects. The problems are others.
Science & Vita and the Livatino Study Center had produced an analytical document (Click here) on the use of this drug in relation to the problem of gender dysphoria affecting minors. The document noted that there is a lack of sufficient clinical studies, especially regarding possible long-term negative effects (follow-up). Furthermore, a particular concrete risk was highlighted, that is, that «daily clinical practice degenerates, ending up reducing the solution of such a complex and decisive problem for the person to the banal administration of a molecule". In other words, the drug will also be effective in blocking puberty, but not to solve the minor's psychological problems. The study, in addition, he wrote down an important fact: the sexual development of a confused minor can help overcome this confusion. Instead, crystallizing him in his pre-pubertal physical condition can equally crystallize his own confusion. Thus the document: «Puberty blocking e – Therefore – even sexual hormones could compromise the morphological and functional definition of those parts of the brain that contribute to the structuring of sexual identity together with environmental and educational factors. […] A misalignment between physical and cognitive development is therefore pharmacologically induced".
Furthermore there is the problem of consent, as Science points out & Vita and the Livatino Study Center: «a pre-pubescent minor who is in a condition frequently accompanied by psychiatric pathologies, emotional and behavioral disorders"" can express valid consent? «How can professionals in the sector ensure that the consent of a pre-adolescent suffering from gender dysphoria is “free and voluntary”?». In the end, more relevant data than the others, among minors suffering from this disorder – one his 9.000 – many overcome the problem naturally without the intervention of drugs.
The American College of Pediatricians, with a document updated in September 2017 (Gender ideology harms children, “Gender ideology is bad for children”), he expressed himself precisely on the issue of pubertal blocking for minors suffering from drug-induced gender dysphoria. We reproduce large excerpts from this very incisive opinion: «Human sexuality is an objective character, biologically binary: “XY” and “XX” are genetic indicators of male and female, respectively – not genetic markers of a disorder. […] No one is born with the awareness of being male or female: this awareness develops over time and like all developmental processes it can be distorted by the child's subjective perceptions, from his negative relationships and experiences, from childhood onwards. […] A person's belief that they are something they are not actually constitutes, at best, the sign of confused thinking. When an otherwise healthy boy believes he is a girl there is an objective problem that lies in the head, not in the body, and should be treated as such. These children suffer from gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria (GD), previously considered a gender identity disorder (GID), it is a mental disorder recognized in the most recent edition of Diagnostic and statistical manual dell’American Psychiatric Association (DSM-V). […] Puberty is not a disease, and hormones that block puberty can be dangerous. Reversible or not, Hormones that block puberty induce a disease state – the absence of puberty – and inhibit growth and fertility in a previously healthy child. According to the DSM-V, until 98% of gender-confused boys and up to 88% of gender-confused girls accept their biological sex after they naturally go through puberty. Children who take puberty-blocking hormones to impersonate the opposite sex will require cross-sex hormones in late adolescence. This combination leads to permanent sterility. These children will never be able to conceive a child even through reproductive technologies. Furthermore, cross-sex hormones (testosterone and estrogen) are associated with serious health risks, included (but not only that) heart disease, high pressure, clot, heart attack, diabetes and cancer. Suicide rates are nearly twenty times higher in adults who use cross-sex hormones and undergo sex reassignment surgery, even in Sweden which is among the most tolerant countries towards LGBTQ people. What compassionate and reasonable person would condemn children to this fate knowing that after puberty up to 88% of girls and up to 98% some children will eventually accept reality and reach a state of mental and physical well-being? Conditioning children to believe that a lifetime of chemical or surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is normal is child abuse.. Supporting gender disparity as normal through school or legislative policies will confuse children and parents, leading more children to show up at “gender clinics” where they will be given puberty-blocking drugs. This, in exchange, it practically guarantees that they will “choose” a life of carcinogenic and otherwise toxic cross-sex hormones, and they will most likely think about unnecessary mutilations of healthy parts of their bodies when they are adults.".
From a moral point of view, and here we echo the psychological considerations of the American College of Pediatricians, it is good to remember that the psyche must conform to the sexual body. There are cases in which the sexual attributes do not conform perfectly to the genetic data and in these cases surgery and pharmacology must do their part so that there is harmony between primary and secondary sexual characteristics and the genetic profile which is male or female. But even in these cases, self-perception must conform to genetic sex. Unfortunately, the orientation of medical practice does not support this perspective, rather it tends to ultimately endorse any perception of the minor.
source – http://www.lanuovabq.it/it/omaggio-al-gender-via-libera-al-farmaco-blocca-puberta