Puberty blockers are not reversible, and giving them to young children can cause irreparable harm.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/03/11/pioneer-in-child-gender-dysphoria-treatment-says-trans-medical-industry-is-harming-kids/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/we-were-wrong-evidence-shows-puberty-blockers-are-neither-safe-nor-reversible-says-canadian-doctor-who-helped-pioneered-puberty-blocker-drugs/

Here are two articles with links to Dr. Bradley and her reversal in opinion that puberty blocker medications are a good idea.  She started one of the first gender affirming clinics in Canada back in the 1970’s.  Back in those days, puberty blocker meds were not used, it was 100% therapy based rather than pharmaceutical interventions.  Pharma options were introduced in 1993, under the primary diagnosis of precocious puberty or early onset puberty.  Healthcare providers would give those medications to delay puberty until the child reached appropriate puberty age.  For example, if an 8 year old female started developing breasts and underarm hair, they could utilize puberty blockers to delay further puberty onset to age 11-12.  I don’t necessarily agree with this approach either, but that was what their original use was for.  Then the gender affirming squad came on scene and the use of these drugs took a scary and dangerous turn.

First off, Bradley came to believe that most child patients who identified as transgender were actually on the autism spectrum or suffering from borderline personality disorder, which she believes should be classified as part of the autism spectrum. Autistic adolescents are particularly prone to obsessive thinking and body image issues, and they struggle to change their minds once convinced something is true, all of which make them more vulnerable to being convinced they are actually the opposite sex and should seek medical interventions such as puberty blockers or hormones.

““Blocking the sexual development of children is a highly authoritarian intervention. Children are asexual, and so they can’t understand the impact of impaired sexual functioning, she said. “We are roughly 10 years into this large-scale experiment and already we have reports on issues with cognitive development, bone mineral density, and fertility. All the up-to-date evidence shows that puberty blockers are neither safe nor reversible.” “We were wrong.  They’re not as reversible as we always thought, and they have longer term effects on kids’ growth and development, including making them sterile and quite a number of things affecting their bone growth. We thought that it was relatively safe, and endocrinologists said they’re reversible, and that we didn’t have to worry about it. I had this skepticism in the back of my mind all the time that maybe we were actually colluding and not helping them. And I think that’s proven correct in that, once these kids get started at any age on puberty blockers, nearly all of them continue to want to go to cross sex hormones.”

Dr. Bradley concluded with this: “These kids are not fairing well with the current affirmative approach.  I don’t know that any kids actually could, given the capacity of a 10 or 12, or even 14 or 15 yar old to understand the complexity of the decision that they’re making on their long term sexual and life function.  It just doesn’t make sense.” “Blocking the sexual development of children is a highly authoritarian intervention.  Children are asexual, and so they can’t understand the impact of impaired sexual function.  We are roughly 10 years into this large-scale experiment and already we have reports on issues with cognitive development, bone mineral density, and fertility.  All the up-to-date evidence shows that puberty blockers are neither safe nor reversible.“

This has been the greatest fear, one which I discuss with every transgender patient in my office.  Hormonal puberty blockers are NOT TEMPORARY.  Once you start the process of stopping puberty, you cannot gain that time back.  Ever.  Those who start these drugs at age 10-12 are risking the development of any of their sex organs, compromising fertility, and at the rate of de-transitioning that tends to occur, they do not realize that they have potentially removed their option to have children in the future.  They may never have sexual function.  Kids do not understand the role of a sexual relationship yet, and parents who enable this therapy are doing grave potential harm.  I would not want to be the parent of a 12 year old giving consent to puberty blockers, and have to deal with the fallout 10 years from now when they realize what a horrible mistake it was, and they ask their parent why they didn’t intervene and stop them.  As a parent, our greatest job is to protect our kids.  Allowing a pre-teen to start puberty blockers is a recipe for disaster.