The British National Health Service once advertised on its website that the effects of puberty blockers “are considered to be fully reversible.” Then, after increased scrutiny, they changed this to the admission that “little is known about the long-term side effects of hormone or puberty blockers in children with gender dysphoria.”
Thanks to Christopher Rufo, a video of Tandy Aye, a pediatric endocrinologist at Stanford University Child’s Health Specialty Services, has resurfaced — further demonstrating that the clinical activist claim that puberty blockers were “fully reversible” was disingenuous to begin with.
The clip is taken from a TED talk that Aye gave in 2019, titled “Is the Surgical World Ready for Adolescent Gender Surgery?” Aye says:
If as soon as pubertal blockers were added [to a male child’s drug regimen] and then estrogen was added to [his] therapy — [his] testes never developed. In fact, [he] does not make any sperm. And [his] reproductive capability to be a biological parent has been eliminated. [His] testes are non-functional and in medicine, don’t we often recommend the removal of non-functional organs, like an appendix?
Stanford Children's doctor says "the demand for transgender surgery has increased by five-fold" and suggests that if a boy takes hormones and "her testes are non-functional," doctors should surgically remove them—even if the child is a minor. pic.twitter.com/tpc6xwpiRV
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@christopherrufo) October 11, 2022
In other words: Since we’ve already rendered the boy’s sex organ non-functioning through drugs, what’s the point in making him wait until he’s 18 to be castrated? Why delay the inevitable?