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Puberty Blocking Drugs Used On ‘Trans Kids’ Have Killed More Than 6,000 People
2019-09-29
[HOTAIR] Here’s a horror show of a story that you’re probably not going to see on CNN anytime soon. A report emerged on Thursday indicating that the puberty-blocking drug Leuprolide Acetate (Lupron) has resulted in tens of thousands of serious "adverse reactions" in patients, including more than six thousand deaths. That’s bad enough, but it’s even more significant when you consider that this is one of the drugs being administered by doctors to so-called "transgender children" to unnaturally prevent their normal sexual development. And the testing done on the drug by the FDA for such applications appears to be thin at best.

More than 6,300 adults have died from reactions to a drug that is used as a puberty blocker in gender-confused children, Food & Drug Administration data reportedly shows.

"Between 2012 and June 30 of this year, the FDA documented over 40,764 adverse reactions suffered by patients who took Leuprolide Acetate (Lupron), which is used as a hormone blocker. More than 25,500 reactions logged from 2014-2019 were considered ’serious,’ including 6,370 deaths," The Christian Post reported on Thursday.

"Lupron is being prescribed off-label for use in children who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria despite the lack of formal FDA approval for that purpose," the outlet explained.
g(r)omgoru submitted the same story, commenting:
Inhalers killed what, 30 people in whole of USA? Well, think of it as evolution in action! (IMO, People who want their kid's gender changed shouldn't reproduce)
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Posted by:Fred

#2  I do hate this story. It is a bad statistic, as lord garth stated, based on treatment of profoundly unhealthy people (many of whom likely would have died no matter what they were given). There is no evidence listed here that shows these drugs are anywhere nearly as risky as this is making them sound (or which even concludes that the drugs were responsible for all of the deaths they were associated with; if I were taking to be taking morphine after a car crash and die anyways, I was not killed by morphine).
Posted by: Vernal Hatrick   2019-09-29 20:15  

#1  Lupron is used in treating late stage prostate cancer or returning cancer. It has side effects but considering that late stage prostate cancer patients are running out of time anyway, many doctors will use it. Prostate cancer kills about 30,000 US citizens a year.

There is almost certainly less risk in giving lupron to young otherwise healthy patients.

This is not to say 'no risk', just less risk.

Posted by: lord garth   2019-09-29 00:31  

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