Corrie Geoff abuse to Emmerdale drug use â 2020 soap storylines hit by Ofcom complaints
Soaps are famed for their high-drama storylines, with scenes from Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Casualty leaving viewers picking up their phones to complain to Ofcom this year
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17 Dec 2020
California endocrinologist Dr. Michael Laidlaw observed on Twitter this week that a 2020 preprint of a study on puberty blockers administered to 12-15-year-old gender-dysphoric youth confirmed a “massive decrease in bone density of patients relative to their peers.”
“The graph shows the baseline spine bone density and then the decrease over time,” Laidlaw continued in the thread.
2020 preprint of Tavistock study on puberty blockers confirms massive decrease in bone density of patients relative to their peers. The graph shows the baseline spine bone density and then the decrease over time. /1 pic.twitter.com/L6UFuVOVpW
As a “preprint” published online at medRxiv.org, the article, titled “Short-term outcomes of pubertal suppression in a selected cohort of 12 to 15 year old young people with persistent gender dysphoria in the UK,” is new research that has yet to be peer-reviewed.
By Hans Bader | December 15, 2020 | 4:36pm EST
Activists carry an LGBT flag. (Photo credit: MONIRUL BHUIYAN/AFP via Getty Images)
Growing numbers of teenagers are being given puberty blockers after being deemed transgender. Those puberty blockers can lead to fragile bones, hip fractures, and other harms caused by early-onset osteoporosis. Teens are not being informed about this potential harm by most doctors and clinics that profit from performing transgender treatments. That is classic medical malpractice, in my view, and the view of other lawyers who also have practiced law for decades.
As Michael K. Laidlaw, MD, notes, treatment with puberty blockers is leading these adolescents to a much higher risk of early osteoporosis and fractures. Normally, bone density increases a lot during adolescence but not for teens on puberty blockers, which prevent this essential process at a key time in life. As Will Malone, MD notes, humans ac
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N 2018 ANDREA DAVIDSON’S 12-year-old daughter, Meghan, announced she was “definitely a boy”. Ms Davidson says her child was never a tomboy but the family doctor congratulated her and asked what pronouns she had chosen, before writing a referral to the British Columbia Children’s Hospital (
BCCH). “We thought we were going to see a psychologist, but it was a nurse and a social worker,” says Ms Davidson (both her and her daughter’s names have been changed). “Within ten minutes they had offered our child Lupron” a puberty-blocking drug. “They brought up the drug directly with our child, in front of us, without discussing it with us privately first.” There was no mention of other mental-health issues, which are known to increase the likelihood of gender dysphoria, the feeling that you are in the wrong
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