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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Carol Platt Liebau: First Do No Harm
Description: Great Britain’s National Health Service has just banned the use of puberty blockers for treating gender dysphoria, noting they’re just not reversible. Apparently, Britain shares the misgivings about so called “gender affirming” treatment for minors expressed already by Sweden, Finland, Norway and France. Increasingly, the US medical community is an outlier in its enthusiasm for medicalizing and performing life altering surgeries on vulnerable children. It’s dismaying that socialized health systems have led the way in protecting minors. The benefit of a private system is that it puts citizens, rather than government...