The reversibility of puberty blockers is not in dispute
Dr Helen Webberley on Times Radio: puberty blockers, with Andrew Neil, Times Radio
The reversibility of puberty blockers is genuinely disputed among medical experts. People assume that because the debate is loud, the science must be unsettled.
What I said there is not a contested claim in the evidence-based research: when you stop a puberty blocker, the hypothalamus resumes its signalling, and the gonads respond. The body picks up where it left off. That is the pharmacology, and it is not in serious scientific dispute. The noise around reversibility comes from political argument, not from the medical literature. I say this because I think people deserve to know the difference between a genuine scientific uncertainty and a manufactured one, and this is the latter.
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