• cheese_greater@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    That’s what blockers are for. That seems to be the medical standard of care so non-doctor laypeople should not be opining on this

    • Edwardthefma99✡@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      blockers give a increased risk for cancer this is why you read the little booklet they give you when getting the drug if you dont get it ask the pharmacist for it it tells the risks and the side affects

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        A medication might have a miniscule increase in chance for cancer? Say it ain’t so! We shouldn’t let kids eat processed meats then. Or have direct tap water. Or eat donuts. Or fly anywhere. Or go out in the sun. Or have diabetes. Or have a cell phone anywhere near their heads. Or drink soda. Or drink anything out of a plastic bottle. Or be around a scented candle. Or fall asleep with the TV on. The fact is that just existing increases your chances of cancer. To use that as a reason to not do something that’ll make you happier is insane and it will lead to you hiding under your bed for the rest of your life. Except that being at all sedentary will also increase risks of cancer so you can’t just hide either.

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          3 months ago

          We shouldn’t let kids eat processed meats then.

          Or any meats. Watch the cons’ heads explode about “social engineering” if more and more authorities start trying to warn children away from the dangers of any meat. The cons are already cranking up their culture war against other healthy efforts like milk substitutes and have always had an uneasy detente with veg*n diets - but are increasingly getting more and more agitated about any change to their “way of life”, even if it’s wayyyy better for them.

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            3 months ago

            To be fair, it’s kind of hard to come up with a defense when your premise is “Cancer treatments cause cancer” 😄

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              Try explaining to them even if that was the case, the risk of suicide and extreme self-harming is way more prescient than any long-shot cancer risk, but preferably blow thru their bullshit by pointing out all the things they defend to the death that are more harmful and more predictably so

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        Based on the available evidence, the concerns about cancer in transgender populations, albeit biologically plausible, are neither adequately supported nor convincingly alleviated because of a lack of well-designed epidemiologic studies.

        From this paper.

        https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5868281/

        The biggest risk seems to be HPV causing cancer, which may not be related to hormones at all, but the fact that trans people may be more likely to have HPV to begin with. And how HPV will interact with gender affirming surgery, rather than with hormones.

        In other words, the jury is still out and what you are repeating is not science but likely transphobic propaganda.

        And on the other side of the equation you have to consider that gender incongruence causes severe suicidal ideation in a lot of transgender people.

        So, if it was your loved one struggling for decades with suicidal ideation and attempts, would you want them denied life-saving medication because it might increase the risk of cancer? Because that’s what your argument boils down too. Denying adults life-saving medicine because it’s plausible that it could increase the risk of cancer.

        And just to nail my point home, here’s an article on how common medications used to treat depression increase the risk of cancer. Should we stop prescribing those too?

        https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10259481/

        • Edwardthefma99✡@lemmy.world
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          i did not say adults i was clearly meaning kids in sorry but givng kids cancer causing drugs is messed up if your a adult you have a fullly developed brain and cam make the decision appropriately