The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s ban on certain gender-transition treatment for kids. But studies have shown that age-appropriate gender-affirming health care treatments are safe and effective, we reported in 2021.
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They range from unclear treatment aims (besides altering a child’s body), a lack of credible evidence that stopping normally-timed puberty leads to improvements in mental health, to safety concerns (e.g., bone health) & profound unknowns across many health domains, especially brain development.
The fact that nearly 100% of puberty-blocked youth proceeded with cross-sex hormones was treated as a negative signal that puberty blockers may be setting children on an irreversible path of gender transition.
The 2020 NICE systematic review of evidence for the effects of cross-sex hormones found a similarly unreliable evidence base as the puberty blockers review but with a signal that there may be some small short-term improvements in mental health following cross-sex hormones administration.
The final Cass Report expressed concern over how small these changes were, considering the fact that the introduction of the long-awaited cross-sex hormones and desired physical changes is expected to lead to short-term improvements in mood.
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