Sweden's National Board of Health and Welfare to release new guideline regarding hormone therapy for youth

[Shiloh]

Source: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/20...h-u-turns-on-hormone-blockers-for-trans-kids/

Swedish Board of Health U-Turns on Hormone Blockers for Trans Kids
Chris Tomlinson
25 Feb 202


The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare has made a U-turn on its guidelines regarding hormone therapy for children who say they are transgender, claiming the risks to the children outweigh possible benefits.

The National Board of Health and Welfare is expected to release new guidelines after delaying a report in December following a series of investigations by the television programme “Uppdrag Granskning” last November, which examined the effects of hormone treatment on children.

The new guidelines are set to replace a prior 2015 guideline that recommended the use of puberty blockers for children as being “safe and secure,” broadcaster SVT reports.

According to the health board, the risks of hormone treatments outweigh the benefits stating, “Pending… a research study, our assessment is that the treatments can be given in exceptional cases.”

Thomas Lindén, Head of The National Board of Health and Welfare, also stated, “The studies available do not provide sufficient information about the treatment. We cannot rule out negative effects of it and we do not know if it is useful, it is always associated with problems and risk.”...

 

[Shiloh]

Source: https://genderclinicnews.substack.com/p/sweden-transitions-to-caution?utm_source=twitter&s=r

Sweden transitions to caution
The gender clinic refrain of low rates of regret is coming under challenge
Bernard Lane
Mar 1

Swedish health authorities have urged “restraint” in the use of hormonal drug treatments for medicalised gender change, warning that the risks appear to outweigh the benefits.

Updated advice from Sweden’s National Board of Health and Welfare (NBHW), which has in the past championed “gender affirming” medical interventions as “safe and secure”, says puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones should only be given in “exceptional” cases outside research studies.

There has been an international spike in teenagers, disproportionately natal females, declaring a transgender identity, seeking blocker drugs to stop unwanted puberty, followed by cross-sex hormones and sometimes surgery to mimic the opposite-sex body.

The Swedish NBHW’s recommendations shift the emphasis from medical intervention to psychiatric assessment and psychosocial support for children and adolescents who present with gender dysphoria, a distressing sense of conflict between biological sex and an inner “gender identity”....

 

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