Follow the Science?! FDA Admits Puberty Blockers Are DANGEROUS, Recommended Them Anyway

As the UK moves away from giving kids puberty blockers -- a high court recently ruled puberty blocker bans lawful -- the US, under the Biden administration, is full-steam ahead on 'gender affirming care' for minors. Consequences be damned.

FDA official behind closed doors said puberty blockers are dangerous for transgender youth https://t.co/FtdQVRTwFY
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) August 2, 2024

A leading endocrinologist with the Food and Drug Administration recommended pursuing approval for puberty blockers for youth with gender dysphoria despite acknowledging that they raised the risk of depression and suicidality, according to internal emails.
Shannon Sullivan, the clinical team leader at the FDA’s Division of General Endocrinology, recommended to her supervisor in January 2022 that the agency approve puberty blockers to treat adolescents with gender dysphoria following a safety review that showed negative mental health results.

And here's more from America First Legal, whose litigation exposed this:

🚨SHOCKING EXPOSÉ🚨

Our litigation just exposed that Biden’s FDA recommended approving puberty blockers to minors despite noting that these drugs are associated with an “increased risk of depression and suicidality.”

DETAILS: pic.twitter.com/IfNc8ZQaaX
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) August 1, 2024

Just incredible.

You can read all about this shocking discovery from @Tyler2ONeil

🔗linked below: pic.twitter.com/E1Vkv4BbAl
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) August 1, 2024

The conservative nonprofit America First Legal obtained the email in the discovery process of a lawsuit and made it available to The Daily Signal.
“Our review focused on suicidal ideation/depression, seizures, and bone health,” Sullivan wrote in the email. Although most of the minors in the study suffered from central precocious puberty (in which puberty starts too early), “a handful were transgender kids using the drugs off-label.”
“We found no effect on bone (after factoring in catch-up growth), including no increase in fracture risk,” she noted. “We did find increased risk of depression and suicidality, as well as increased seizure risk and we issued [safety-related labeling changes].”
Yet Sullivan went on to recommend approving GnRH agonists for minors.

The Left screams that denying these kids puberty blockers increases risk of suicide, and when almost the exact opposite turns out to be true, they recommend them anyway.

It's not about helping these kids. It's about pushing an agenda.

There needs to be accountability.
— Julia 🇺🇸 (@Jules31415) August 2, 2024

There needs to be. But there won't be.

Biden Harris FDA
— Reaganette (@Ezinger44) August 1, 2024

And these policies would continue under Kamala as president.

You guys are doing important work. Keep it up!
— LordoftheThumbs (@lordofthethumbs) August 1, 2024

We need more of this.

This is a deranged recommendation from the FDA. We need to completely gut the FDA and replace most of the leadership and many employees.
— Dr. Gene Posca (@PoscaDr) August 1, 2024

Absolutely deranged.

Literal child abuse.
— LibertyTakes101 (@LibertyTakes101) August 1, 2024

Yes it is.

The Biden administration and the Democrats don’t serve the children’s interest. They serve the interest of their donors and special interests that vote for them.
— Dem2Rep (@dem2rep2021) August 1, 2024

Nailed it.

Almost sounds like crimes against humanity level stuff..
— P.S. (@pointlessshit) August 1, 2024

They day will come when we look back at this like lobotomies, forced sterilization, and the Tuskegee Airmen experiments.

Kamala was part of this https://t.co/7FEzY1c88x
— Rick “No One” Robinson 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 (@RowdyRick73) August 2, 2024

And will continue this agenda.

The FDA is completely illegitimate.

Captured by Big Pharma on one hand, and Leftism on the other.
It doesn't serve its original limited purpose of enforcing label accuracy and purity. https://t.co/gUhF92Ws6Z
— BrowningMachine (TEXIT now!) (@BrowningMachine) August 2, 2024

Leftism and big pharma is a bad combo, and there's no real fixing it save a complete revamp.

Advocates "of these brutal practices ... claim ... they are necessary to prevent suicide & depression" but the treatments cause these very things. "This barbarism has no place in a civilized society and it’s time ... to follow ... Europe in banning these experiments on children." https://t.co/f5fANO2Hu8
— Stefan Padfield (@StefanPadfield) August 2, 2024

The Left loves to say 'be more like Europe' until it doesn't mesh with their political agenda.

Most radical administration ever. https://t.co/g7gqliLjeV
— Sinner Saved by Grace (@redeemed_St) August 2, 2024

Absolutely radical.

Reminder that the civilized world has banned these.

Apparently, we're no longer part of that world. https://t.co/Pm6j9a6CqR
— Robert Patrick Lewis (@RobertPLewis) August 2, 2024

No we are not.

This is anti-science and anti-child.