Western Standard - November 19, 2024


‘Transitioning’ The Irreversible Risk


Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

146.39606

Word count

327

Sentence count

19

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

sentences flagged


Summary

Summaries generated with gmurro/bart-large-finetuned-filtered-spotify-podcast-summ .

In this episode, I talk about my experience with puberty blockers and the impact they had on my life. I also talk about the need for more open debate in the medical field and for the government to no longer be politicised.

Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
Misogyny classifications generated with MilaNLProc/bert-base-uncased-ear-misogyny .
00:00:00.000 For me, I had already started puberty by the time I was 16, so they shouldn't have given me puberty blockers anyway.
00:00:06.320 And so when they did, it completely interrupted the puberty I had already started going through.
00:00:11.340 I went through menopause.
00:00:13.660 I was then given testosterone, which is a known carcinogen, and it forces you to go through a male-like puberty, which I got a deeper voice.
00:00:26.060 My facial hair and body hair started growing in darker and thicker.
00:00:30.000 I gained more muscle mass, and it was distributed differently than it would be for a woman, which made me fit differently in clothes.
00:00:40.680 But the problem is male clothes still didn't fit properly because I had the bone structure of a woman because I didn't get the puberty blockers before puberty.
00:00:47.940 So that didn't really help anything.
00:00:51.020 My balance actually went funny because if you're on puberty blockers and testosterone, your breasts essentially deflate. 1.00
00:00:59.940 And I was also using a chest binder, so it made them squish down.
00:01:03.120 So my center of balance actually got shifted.
00:01:05.660 Puberty blockers because I did not finish out my puberty properly.
00:01:11.340 It stunted my physical growth, my emotional and mental growth.
00:01:15.200 It actually keeps you stuck in a teenage-like state mentally because you don't grow up to be able to make those long-term decisions because you're suppressing all of the hormones that are supposed to help you do that.
00:01:25.760 So youth need an opportunity to pause and to think.
00:01:32.320 As an adult, I thought I was informed.
00:01:35.280 I had no idea how politicized the trans lobby has made research.
00:01:42.080 And I am pleased to support the policies of Premier Daniel Smith and her government and her stance to end the bullying, especially regards to the doctors and the researchers and the state of the research that there will once again be open debate about what's going on in the medical field.
00:02:11.000 And for it to no longer be politicized.