"Have, you, you know, tried stopping being trans?"
Cass Review author calls for 'holistic' child care
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Dr Hilary Cass said young people with "gender distress" also often had struggles with mental health, neurodivergence or family issues.
www.bbc.comPuberty blockers ARE the evidence-based treatment!
But that's all low quality untested evidence, she wants to use the other low quality untested evidence for totally not idealogical reasons
Wait .. an alternative to medication, which is obviously terrible and must not be given to children is ... Medication.
Also, "alternatives such as 'medication'", wtf? (I'm guessing she means 'anti-depressants,' but if so, say so!
Hmm, but I thought it was wrong to give children medication that hadn't been thoroughly tested? 🤔
It’s wild what people will try in other contexts. Back in the 90s a friend of mine was given off-label antipsychotics because his doctor thought he might have ADHD. This turned out to be, shockingly, a really bad idea.
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It was really bad. It made him really, really, angry (hulk-smash levels of rage and irrationality), and he got kicked out of school. Thankfully his parents were both sensible and very articulate people and got him off the drugs and managed to get the expulsion off his record, but still grim.
And if he hadn't had parents who were supportive and also the sort of well-educated, 'nice' white middle class parents who get listened to and who know what levers to pull, it could have literally ruined his life. I suspect there were other kids who got that treatment who were less lucky.
I suspect it happens to considerably more kids than ever got puberty blockers and causes much more damage to kids, but it's never going to hit the headlines in the same way sadly
I suspect you are quite right :(
I got off-label antipsychotics for insomnia. It made me extremely drowsy, but still wide awake.
And it’s not like anti-depressants (which, to be clear, are useful drugs that can be life saving) are exactly side-effect free, either. On occasion, quite dangerous side-effects, if you’re unlucky. But that’s not a reason not to prescribe them, it’s a reason to monitor and be careful.
So let's ignore 92% of American child psychologists who recommend allowing a child to transition as the best way to safeguard their mental health, all because some rancid terf is suddenly the new UK media darling. Fuck's sake.
"Can I/we blame your transness on anything else other than actually being trans, and treat that instead?"
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Transness, well known as being a symptom of anxiety and depression
Argh that drives me batty.
Dandruff made me Trans
correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t the evidence overwhelmingly in favour of allowing trans people to transition
It is, but the Cass review team wouldn't know it because it went to a different school/was in a different language/came out in the last 5 years/scored too low on their system
"The evidence is overwhelmingly in favour of allowing trans people to transition."
"I like not this evidence! Bring me other evidence!"
"The evidence is overwhelmingly in favour of NOT allowing trans people to transition."
"Ha ha, this is good evidence indeed!"
She dismissed the evidence of puberty blockers in precocious puberty because they weren’t studied enough specifically for gender dysphoria, but SSRIs and psychological support can apparently be extended to any patient cohort without separate clinical trials.
Is she suggesting putting healthy kids on diazepam?
LOL
Mine have been buried beneath the sands of medication. I *could* adjust the medication to figure it out, but...lazy.
...which the medication is supposed to fix.
And Zolpidem (which is an alternative to Zopliclone sleeping medication)
Very baffling. There's something "wrong" inside her but she is being managed with medication (painkiller/anti inflammatory, and gut motility). She's likely to go on to a higher dose of medication as standard now (which is fine, same syringe).
“Do not take this medication if you are allergic to this medication.”
Direct to consumer pharm advertising is obviously pretty problematic in general. But I have an extra pet peeve about them.
They always mention not to take the medication if you are allergic to it.
Obviously don't take the medication if you are allergic to it.
That's how allergies work...
There’s the BP medication, the medication to lower my uric acid levels, the medication to counter the flare-ups of gout the uric acid medication is meant to prevent but might inadvertently cause, the anti-inflammatory medication if that doesn’t work, the painkiller medication to go alongside that…
bluesky would be 10000% better if it disclosed what drugs each person is on
The question you need to consider is if the depression would have been worse without the medication treatment. If this has not worked for you, I am very sorry. There are however millions of people for which medication does alleviate symptoms.
I have never been so sick from medication. Already checked with docs, I'm not allergic, have to finish the antibiotic course. Got an anti-nausea medication normally reserved for cancer treatment. Which lets me function, but eating kicks the nausea off again. BLARGH.
Probiotics only go so far. :(
my understanding is that, bizarrely, doctors are not meant to be medication experts, and that role belongs to pharmacists (who have training on par with doctors, but in medication).
but uhhh lol
So for chronic migraines, it's better to get a prophylactic medication. Epilepsy medication is usually prescribed but that didn't get mine under control. But a medication called Sibelium has really helped (it's pricey though). I also use Trepiline which seems to be helping too.
Being on medication to keep me normal and not having insurance so I can keep getting said medication is probably going to be the death of me.
My favourite part is where they aren't manufacturing enough stimulant medication, so you have to be really paying attention to get it as soon as it's in stock, which is *super easy* to do when I'm ... missing my medication 🫠
migraine medication is great because. Then you are migraine medication and you get to melt
Are you addicted to your cold medication which also has amphetamines? Or are you willing to understand the person you were responding to was using a very clinical definition of addiction to make a point about which medications we shame or not. Such as cold medication vs ….
Kind of you to say :) Bless Boo though, this is a cat who once had to be given anti-anxiety medication.
I mean of course HIV does not have to lead to AIDS if you get the right medication. There are good meds out there and people with a positive status can lead an almost normal life, have children and everything.
But without medication, HIV will kill you.
Sometimes, as I set up to take my asthma medication, I like to sing a little song, à la Roy Castle:
"Medication!
Medication!
Medication—that's what you need.
If you want to be the best
If you want to cure your che-e-est
Medication's what you need."
I'm sure I'm not the only one.
PrEP can be taken as a daily dosage or as event-based (which is good to know if you have to pay directly for your medication)
It was probably the adhd medication that helped you remember. What I need is a medication to help me to remember to take my medication.
Shortage not withstanding, I'm not sure it's ethical to deny people prescriptions for ADHD medication if they need a diagnosis, but the diagnosis process has a several year long backlog. Of course it's not desirable to give medication to those who don't actually have it, but given the alternative
not even in the same ballpark, but when cvs made it difficult to get my anti-depressants, i called and said--cordially!--"the issue with what you're doing is that if i go any longer without this medication, i will kill myself," which did motivate them both to give me the rx and drop me as a customer
i am very tired of the whole "doing this thing that improves your well-being reinforces your place within the capitalist hegemony" --what if i stick a twizzler through your ear... what then
now they're doing it to people with adhd.
don't fucking let them.
this is bullshit, and if society refuses to adjust so you can function without medication, then that medication should be available to you. you are not a failure for needing medical assistance. don't let them say you are.
So, if it's that, it's looking like she would be on pain medication to manage it, as it's not something that could be operated on.
Puberty blockers are not cross sex hormones. Puberty blockers are prescribed to cisgender children in much greater numbers than to transgender children. Do you really think trans children and their parents are inherently incapable of consenting to a treatment that is acceptable for cis children?
