ound that suppressing puberty "reduced growth that was dependent on puberty hormones", and height growth continued, "but more slowly than for their peers".
This is serious stuff. Adolescence – puberty – is when young people really need to build up their bone density for that growth spurt into adulthood, along with all the hormonally-driven changes to develop secondary sexual characteristics. You can't stop the latter without stopping the former.
Which is not a good idea at all. See this Twitter thread:
2020 preprint of Tavistock study on puberty blockers confirms massive decrease in bone density of patients relative to their peers. The graph shows the baseline spine bone density and then the decrease over time. /1 pic.twitter.com/L6UFuVOVpW
— Michael K. Laidlaw, MD (@MLaidlawMD) December 13, 2020
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