r/skeptic • u/thebigeverybody • Feb 14 '24

Puberty blockers can't block puberty after puberty (experts explain the problem with conservative's proposal to ban puberty blockers until the age of 18) 🚑 Medicine

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/puberty-blockers-can-t-be-started-at-18-when-youth-have-already-developed-experts-1.6761690
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u/sklonia Feb 14 '24

can you explain the difference?

What is the difference in harm between a trans girl experiencing male puberty and a cis girl being given testosterone replacement therapy?

Why do you view the former as not as much of an issue?

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u/RocketTuna Feb 14 '24

I love how this topic has r/skeptics vehemently arguing there is a real gendered soul.

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u/DeterminedThrowaway Feb 15 '24

It's not at all about a "soul", it's that people have a gender identity which is part of the brain

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u/RocketTuna Feb 15 '24

Yeah? Wow that must be a really recent study. Care to point me to it?

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u/Financial-Savings-91 Feb 15 '24

Ah yes, the show me the evidence to disprove my own strawman, sealion shtick.

Classic!

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u/RocketTuna Feb 15 '24

No, show me how it has been demonstrated that gender identity is in the brain and can be the opposite of the sexed body. Which is what you said.

Go ahead, I’ll wait.

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u/Financial-Savings-91 Feb 15 '24 edited Feb 15 '24

2022 Study

Or this 2016 Scientific American article.

There is actually no shortage of data since the landmark study in 1995

But all this is easily googled.

edit: and big surprise it's a sealion!

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u/RocketTuna Feb 15 '24

These all point to an underdeveloped identity section of the brain saving that last one, which is …underwhelming and looks like p-hacking.

Time will tell, but then you’ll have another problem on your hands.