cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/140739

Puberty blockers shut down the activity of the hypothalamus, which “controls all the other hormonal structures in your body—your sexual development, your emotions, your fight-or-flight response, everything.”

The hypothalamus is “not just a hormone factory” though, the doctor explained.

“It’s this system that allows you to stand in awe of the beauty of a sunset, or to hear the sounds of orchestral music and to stop whatever you’re doing and want to listen. And I always think that if someone were to ask me, ‘Where is it that you would look for the divine spark in each individual?’ I would say that it would be somewhere ‘beneath the inner chamber,’ which is the Greek derivation of the term hypothalamus. To shut down that system is to shut down what makes us human,” the doctor said.

The physician said doctors feel the need to “express their faith” to other believers in the “ideology” of transgenderism.

“If these rituals are not derived from a cultural heritage with a moral tradition, they become susceptible to unbound human depravity,” the doctor said. “When you look at the Judeo-Christian tradition, you have the outlawing of child sacrifice and other ways that standards were codified. But in the transgender ideology, none of these guardrails exist. So, what becomes the greatest expression of faith to other believers? To sacrifice the most pure and innocent.”

Both puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones come with serious health risks. Puberty blockers can affect bone growth and density and cause sexual dysfunction, voice damage, and infertility, among other issues. Cross-sex hormones can cause infertility, deadly blood clots, heart attacks, increased cancer risks of the breasts and ovaries, liver dysfunction, worsening psychological illness, and other serious conditions.