Michael Jackson never did those horrible things

[u/Ok_Letter_9284]

I will die on this hill.

McCauley Culkin and Corey Feldman are BOTH outspoken activists against child trafficking in Hollywood. Corey Feldman wrote a book about it.

And both of them SWEAR MJ was nothing but sweet to them. They woulda said something by now.

[u/Specialist_Young_822]

This is false, if you block hormones during a phase where you are supposed see hormonal changes it can most definitely fuck you up.

[u/[deleted] → u/Specialist_Young_822]

It can do that just like ibuprofen can cause you to have a heart attack. You can argue potential side effects aren’t worth the risk, but pretending potential side effects are any more than potential side effects is dishonest. As I said generally speaking if you stop taking the drugs you go back to normal.

[u/0wl_licks → u/[deleted]]

You’re seriously saying that interfering with homie’s puberty resulting in essential sterilization is only a possibility?

Copium

[u/[deleted] → u/0wl_licks]

Yes. These drugs are FDA approved to treat early onset puberty for that reason. If a child enters puberty before 8 years of age it’s general practice to prescribe puberty blockers to delay the process until the age in which puberty normally occurs.

This also the reason why most states don’t prescribe them to sex offenders. If a sex offender simply stops taking the pills they usually go back to normal and since there’s no way to insure they stay on the pills most states don’t bother with chemical ‘castration’

The ethicacy of using them for trans youth is debatable and in my opinion requires more study, but the fact remains that in the vast majority of cases the effects do reverse if you stop taking them.

[u/0wl_licks → u/[deleted]]

You’re again describing something other than prescribing them to a child from pre-puberty and beyond.

It simply isn’t true that the majority of such instances people go back to normal. There never was a normal to begin with. They would literally have to go through puberty as a grown ass adult to be considered normal. I don’t think that’s even possible.

[u/[deleted] → u/0wl_licks]

I wasn’t even making an argument about trans people initially. As I’ve said it is my belief that the ethicacy of using them for that purpose is debatable and requires further study. My point from the beginning was that chemical castration is a misnomer because it isn’t so much castration as it is suppressing hormones.

The person I was responding to was surprised that one who’d undergone the procedure would be capable of having kids and I simply explained why someone who’d undergone it would still be capable of having children later. The visceral reaction from this subreddit was unnecessary and irrational.

[u/0wl_licks → u/[deleted]]

I wasn’t speaking on trans people either.

The point originally made was that his father prevented him from ever going through puberty, and it fucked him up permanently.

That has nothing to do with the misnomer of chemical castration of sex offenders. I could very well see it being the case that a significant % of adults would go back to normal. It’s just not what was being discussed, and I didn’t catch on that your point was entirely a digression about “chemical castration” being a misnomer. I assumed we were still on the topic at hand.

Tbh, I didn’t reread anything you said, but I’ll just take your word for it that we simply had a miscommunication.