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Puberty blockers (also called puberty inhibitors or hormone blockers) are medicines used to postpone puberty in children. The most commonly used puberty blockers are gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists, which suppress the natural production of sex hormones, such as androgens (e.g. testosterone) and estrogens (e.g. estradiol).
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Researchers have recommended puberty blockers after age 12, when the person has developed to Tanner stages 2–3, and then cross-sex hormones treatment at age 16. This use of the drug is off-label, however, not having been approved by the Food and Drug Administration and without data on long-term effects of this use.
Puberty blockers are hormonal medications meant to suppress sex hormones in adolescents, with the aim of delaying puberty and its associated physical changes. Hormone therapy for gender dysphoria ...
“Puberty blockers are sort of like a man-made hormone analogue, and basically what they do is fool the brain into not sending messages to the ovaries and testes to secrete hormones,” said Dr ...
A High Court judge on Monday upheld the British government's emergency ban on puberty blockers, saying a study that found “very substantial risks and very narrow benefits” of the treatment ...
The review suggested puberty blockers did not provide children and young people with "time to think", since nearly all patients who went on blockers later proceeded with hormone therapy. [ 100 ] [ 70 ] [ 101 ] For youth assigned male at birth, the report states that blockers taken too early can make a later penile inversion vaginoplasty more ...
580 received puberty blockers and/or hormone replacement therapy, and 616 had surgical interventions. The total cost of their medical treatment was just short of $19 million.