Puberty is the most natural thing a child can go through, isn’t it? That essential phase of turning from child to adult. Surely we shouldn’t interfere with something so vital, so important, so natural?
I hear this a lot, and I understand where it comes from. So let’s talk about puberty blockers for a minute and ask a simple question:
What if you could pull over on the path to puberty?
Some people long for puberty and others dread it, but one thing is certain, we’ve all got to go through it. Puberty is essential for our bodies in adulthood to develop and nurture our brain, our bones, and our body. Big changes happen in puberty: growth, hair, muscles, skin. Genitals develop and start to function, preparing to create the next generations. These changes are powerful, dramatic, and very irreversible, and if you’re excited for that and it matches who you are, then for some young people puberty just can’t come soon enough.
What if it doesn’t match, though? What if your natural hormones will bring changes that feel wrong? Those muscles, that hair, that skeleton and height that just doesn’t match you. Or breasts and hips and a body shape that doesn’t feel like yours.
What if you are a woman and your voice will break? What if you are a man and your breasts will grow? What if you truly don’t identify fully with being male or female and you’re stuck somewhere in the middle?
You know, some men are born with ovaries and some women are born with testicles. Society doesn’t always see it that way, but let me tell you, it’s true.
What If You Could Just Say Pause?
What if you’re young and unsure and overwhelmed? What if you could just say pause, pull over? Just stop the process for a minute, give your brain space to think, give your body time to wait until you’re ready.
Remember, some teenagers start developing early and some start late, some kids start way too early. What if we could choose the best time?
That’s what blockers do. They switch off the brain’s signals that kickstart puberty, the ones that wake up the gonads and set the cycles of reproduction in motion. Blockers don’t take anything away, they simply hold things still. Time and space to think without that relentless development of those changes that mean so much. They give everyone time to reflect, to explore, to decide.
Later, if you choose, you can let your puberty roll on forward. Or you can try another hormone, start along another path, a different puberty with changes that build gradually, carefully, as and when you are ready.
Imagine that gift of time and space to grow into the adult body that feels right for you.
The Gift of Time
Imagine being able to look in the mirror and see yourself with love, to walk tall, head high and proud. To turn in the mirror and love what you see, because it matches who you are on the inside, just perfectly.
Some people want to press pause on puberty because the development will be wrong for their gender. They are transgender.
This is not about rushing anyone into anything, do you know what I mean? It’s about giving young people the breathing room to understand themselves, to be heard, and to make decisions about their own bodies when they are ready to make them.
That’s what puberty blockers offer: time and space. Nothing more, nothing less.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this. What questions do you have about puberty blockers? Let’s talk about it in the comments.
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