People seem very worried about bone mass accumulation for transgender teens using puberty blockers, but what does the evidence say? Get your facts straight before you skeet! medicalnewsbulletin.com/puberty-bloc... 🧪 🩺 #EduSky #healthpolicy, 🩺📊 ⚕️medskies #medsky pedsky reprosky #pedsky #transhealth - ThreadSky

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joatmnb.bsky.social • 13 days ago

People seem very worried about bone mass accumulation for transgender teens using puberty blockers, but what does the evidence say? Get your facts straight before you skeet! https://medicalnewsbulletin.com/puberty-blockers-mostly-ok-for-trans-peoples-bone-density/ 🧪 🩺 #EduSky #healthpolicy, 🩺📊 ⚕️medskies #medsky pedsky reprosky #pedsky #transhealth

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humanbyweight.bsky.social•13 days ago

Nice to see more evidence that the health considerations of transitioning line up almost exactly with gender-biased health risks in the general population. Who would have guessed. 😅

joatmnb.bsky.social•12 days ago

To be fair the lumbar spine finding is concerning! By definition it’s outside the norm. But that just means kids and parents need to take the bone density building advice very, very seriously.

humanbyweight.bsky.social•12 days ago

The article implied it was likely within the normal range for women. Am I misinterpreting?

joatmnb.bsky.social•12 days ago

yes! I should correct that, thank you!

humanbyweight.bsky.social•12 days ago

And if it's in the normal range for women... then it's kinda weird to be so concerned about it for trans women when we're generally not concerned about it for cis women.

It's like the warnings we get that estrogen can slightly increase our risk of breast cancer... because we have breasts. 😅

joatmnb.bsky.social•12 days ago

-1.5 is actually quite far from the norm, and it means that people should take it seriously. It’s not a reason to ban people from using the treatment but informed consent and being aware of the risks is very important so they can take the extra care to make sure their lower back is in good shape.

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