Mick Hartley

Another look at the effect of puberty blockers, from clinical psychologist Dr P:

The child whose puberty is being blocked does not live in a vacuum. They are part of a network of siblings, friends and peers. They are part of a community.

What then, is the broader impact of blocking puberty?

For the sake of illustration, let us assume a 10-year child old ‘diagnosed’ with Gender Dysphoria who is started on PBs, to give them “time to think” about what gender they want to be.

This 10-year-old goes on PBs for two years. They are thus frozen in their development: physical growth slows down or stops altogether; the development of secondary sexual characteristics stops; neurobiological and emotional development is halted, or even reversed.

Growth: A boy would have grown by about six inches. A girl by about eight inches.

Neuro-cognitive: Between ages 10 and 12 children move from basic to advanced cognitive flexibility. They begin to think abstractly; hypothetical reasoning emerges; moral reasoning develops, and the child starts to move beyond thinking in absolutes (black and white).

Interpretative thinking, (the ability to recognise cause and effect sequences) also develops. We have perhaps always instinctively understood this; the age of criminal responsibility in England starts at 10 years old, which perhaps reflects the changes in cognitive development starting around this time….

Peer relationships: Because the child has not moved from basic to advanced cognitive flexibility, their social behaviour is affected. By age 12, our puberty-blocked child will be behind their age-matched peers in their interpersonal skills.

They are more likely to become dislocated from their IRL social networks. They turn to the internet for support, where they are at risk of what is frankly open predation by trans activists, (often adult transvestite men) who will then further cement the child's pseudo-trans identity and false gender dysphoria…

Worth reading in full.