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Anyone familiar with menopause treatment will know the tactics employed here are what caused thousands of women to suffer, entirely preventable menopause, because of poorly interpreted science and political hysteria
Hormone science is remarkably simple, understood, reversible and risk free. You can (and people do) make estrogen in a bathtub with basic lab equipment. Hormonal variance occurs in us all, it’s why some start puberty young, some older, some go bald, some don’t. More importantly you can change those things by adding and removing it.
It’s why they’re safe for cis kids, and prescribed to them, be it to block puberty, raise t, help with period side effects, or generally increase their gender congruence.
it’s however, portrayed as the opposite because simply, anything that benefits women or challenges bio essentialist views of gender and sex are undesirable to patriarchy. Sexism in medicine is widely documented. It doesn’t get funded, it gets discouraged or, more often than not, the government commissions research to find a desired result to back up their policy objective then uses political power over medical boards to discourage or devalue further research on the topic
It wasn’t until litterally 5 years ago transdermal hrt finally lost the politically charged falsehood that it induced blood clotting. Menopausal women could finally, easily ask their doctor for a simply product that helped them sleep, feel empowered and helped with gender dysphoria, without battling with the gp or being told they were cuckoo.
This sort of political intervention, against the advice of the civil service, medical board and existing government research is purely ideological. It’s why anyone trying to rationally argue for it seems so crackers, it’s why liberal people watching it are so confused. It’s bonkers.
Labour were supposed to be a step away from government messing with our lives over political wedges, yet here they are, 20 days in office, wasting political energy on this. For what? Most people see the state getting mixed up in their child’s healthcare and wretch at the idea. Most people wretch at the idea of lgbt kids being singled out as different. You got Stella creasy rebelling against the front bench and he’s not even bought it to parliament!