Norway: This gender-bending stuff isn't science

Hot Air ^ | 06/07/2023 | Jazz Shaw

[thegagline]

It’s a rare day when we get to say something nice about Europe when it comes to social issues, particularly when comparing those nations to the United States. But there is one area where they are leading the way and leaving America in the dust. Multiple European countries over the past year or more have conducted thorough scientific research resulting in policies that largely ban transgender “medical care” for children. The latest to join the crowd was Norway. They have now ruled that professional guidance encouraging puberty blockers or sex-change surgery for children should be “restricted to research settings only.”

Norway, hardly the model of extreme, right-wing Christian fundamentalism , joined a growing number of European countries earlier this year in a move to restrict “gender-affirming care” for minors. The Norwegian Healthcare Investigation Board ruled that guidance encouraging puberty blockers and sex-change procedures for gender-confused youths lacked medical evidence and should be restricted to research settings only.

“The knowledge base, especially research-based knowledge for gender-affirming treatment (hormonal and surgical), is deficient and the long-term effects are little known,” the UKOM, an independent government watchdog over Norway’s healthcare system, said in its report. “This is particularly true for the teenage population where the stability of their gender incongruence is also not known.”

*** nobody is “following the science” about transgender treatments because the science doesn’t exist. And any activist doctors telling you otherwise are lying. The doctors prescribing these drugs are doing so via what are known as “off-label prescriptions.” And in case you missed it, one trans-18-year-old male died after doctors attempted to turn part of his large intestine into a “vagina.” Does that sound like any sort of procedure that’s ever been studied or approved anywhere in the world? These so-called doctors are just winging it as they go.

[thegagline]

Norway is embracing sanity while many in the United States are exhibiting signs of mass formation psychosis.

[butlerweave]

Without the 2 genders they’ll die off pretty quickly ,LOL

[nickcarraway]

They are dieing off anyway.

[aquila48]

“European countries over the past year or more have conducted thorough scientific research resulting in policies that largely ban transgender “medical care” for children.”

You need “thorough scientific research” to come up with what is patently obvious??

[Tell It Right]

You need “thorough scientific research” to come up with what is patently obvious??

Unfortunately with the IN crowd nowadays you win arguments by being loudest and most frequently saying "science".

[Moltke]

They have now ruled that professional guidance encouraging puberty blockers or sex-change surgery for children should be “restricted to research settings only."

So, in effect, they are still carrying on, under the guise of "research" (where have we heard that before?).

Jazz Shaw comes across as an easily duped idiot.

[Jan_Sobieski]

They are dieing off anyway.

Not the Muslim Norwegians. They are having twice as many children

[ABN 505]

I believe it was a Scandinavian country [Denmark] that performed the 1st male to female surgery on Cristian Jorgenson back in the 50’s or 60’s. That was the start of all this BS.

[NetAddicted]

I once read that puberty blockers knock 10 points off the adolescent pill taker’s IQ. I haven’t been able to find article again, but another article found loss of cognitive functions in sheep, that they tested puberty blockers on. Norwegian paper said results on brain were likely. Brain does lots of changes during puberty, but not for kids put on puberty blockers.