Puberty blockers aren’t harmful (and definitely not when compared to what is often suicidal depression for those who are denied transition) and the process is entirely reversible if for some reason the person chooses to detransition later (and that’s not very common except in cases where a person fears being trans. It is incredibly rare for someone to get to the point of seeking medical transition and to be unsure if they are actually trans).

There are plenty of medications that interact with these same systems that are infinitely more harmful but don’t fall under such scrutiny. Hormone therapy for cis people regardless of age is rarely under scrutiny. (Big caveat that this is the US though, so like…for instance birth control, a hormone therapy for cis women that is in many places never questioned and given out to anyone who asks actually is under attack in that country)

I made a comment touching on this topic recently: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/320572/comment/249005

An excerpt of my post:

Puberty blocking medicine has been in use already for about 40 years, for children who start their puberty too early. Now it can also be used for children who, upon beginning puberty, start experiencing or continue to experience gender dysphoria. The medicine is not used on children who have not begun puberty.

Once usage stops, puberty will resume. “It’s more like a pause. If we stop the medicine, puberty can restart,” says Dr. Cartaya. She adds that once it begins again, the body will go through puberty that’s associated with the sex assigned at birth. https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-are-puberty-blockers/

Children can go off these blockers and resume their natural puberty when they want to, or, when they are a bit older (I believe in the U.S., it’s after 16) they may start hormone therapy that gives them the opposite sex’s hormones.

The article linked above notes: “Puberty blockers are generally safe when used on a short-term basis. They’ve even been used to treat conditions like prostate cancer, breast cancer and endometriosis.”

The main ill effect of puberty blockers is that it can limit bone mineral density, so the child’s doctor will monitor the child’s vitamin D levels and make sure they receive enough calcium.

Additionally, most transpeople who can finally get permission for actual hormones are still using hormone blockers to keep the new ones from having to compete with the ones your body makes. The hormone that attaches to receptors first will block others from attaching (fun fact: your cells’ hormone receptors will always accept either E or T regardless of your chromosome arrangement, with the more numerous hormone outcompeting the less numerous one). So unless you’ve made adjustments to your bits, you will need to stay on blockers forever or switch to a type that’s more commonly taken with your HRT regimen. The “puberty” part of the puberty blocker is a bit of a misnomer because you can take them at any age or use them to treat reproductive-related cancers.

One of the neat things about the human body is its adaptability. Once you introduce hormones into the mix that weren’t there before, your cells are just like “oh, okay, new instructions have arrived” and start rebuilding things. Your genes, the ones currently in all your cells, reader, contain the instructions to make both masc and fem bodies. In fact, if you had received different hormones in the womb, but everything else remained the same, you’d have a totally different body regardless of what your genes say you “should” be.

In adulthood, this sort of change manifests as a “second puberty”, which can happen even in your 30s. A lot transpeople are sort of teenagery in adulthood, partly from social repression (coming out of your shell = really awkward) but also because your head is dealing with a lot of new info. So even if you don’t give trans kids puberty blockers, they’ll still have to do puberty again in their 20s but with the added effect of having to go through the first one they didn’t want.

https://www.fatherly.com/health-science/myths-puberty-blockers-trans-kids-debunked

This sums it up pretty succinctly. You can always Google more after.

Afellowkid and seanchai have great comments below as well.

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It depends where, east coast FL has lots of bougie new-england “snow birds” ( retirees who migrate south to stay in their FL winter homes / condos ), and some of the most racist and reactionary people you will ever meet: Cuban gusanos and their pampered cokehead partying kids.

West coast FL, tampa esp is a little less confrontational, being mostly retirees from the midwest. Still racist af, but not as snobbish. Black people are quardoned off into extremely poor neighborhoods and cities, the color lines are marked by the absense of grass in these areas. St. petes is an annoying hipster mecca, but at least has an average age slightly less than that of the rest of florida ( ˜ 65 years old ).

Gainesville has college students that can barely read. Other areas inland are not safe for humans in general.

They might just be referring to what would happen if you had to stop using puberty blockers