Transgender Activist Wants Children To Be Put On ‘Puberty Blockers’ Until Able To Decide Gender

A popular transgender personality is suggesting that children be placed on ‘puberty blockers’ until a certain time that they’re able to decide their gender preference.

Lauren McNamara, an atheist YouTuber known by followers as “Zinnia Jones,” said children should be allowed to consent to the administration of puberty blockers since they also already gave a “de facto consent” to what she described as “permanent and irreversible changes” brought naturally by puberty.

“If children can’t consent to puberty blockers which pause any permanent changes even with the relevant professional evaluation, how can they consent to the permanent and irreversible changes that come with their own puberty with no professional evaluation whatsoever?” the openly transgender Zinnia Jones wrote.

In a series of tweets after, the trans personality, who has been on hormone replacement therapy since September 2012 argued “inability to offer informed consent or understand the long-term consequences is actually an argument for putting every single cis and trans person on puberty blockers until they acquire that ability.”

According to her YouTube fan page, ‘Zinnia Jones’ was “assigned male at birth” and given name Zachary Antolak in 1989 in Chicago but she “became aware of her sexuality as a gay male at an early age.”

She has been posting “numerous videos critical of religion, especially in regards to its attitudes towards LGBT people,” it added.

The Keira Bell case

McNamara’s comments came after a UK case involving 23-year-old biological female, Keira Bell, surfaced where she sued the British National Health Service’s gender-identity youth clinic — Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust —  for prescribing that she be administered puberty blockers when she was just 16 years old.

Bell later on regrets becoming a male and argued to the court that the clinic should have “challenged [her] more” over her decision to transition to a male as a teenager.

The High Court then ruled then that children under 16 with gender dysphoria are “unlikely to be able to give informed consent to undergo treatment with puberty-blocking drugs.”

The court also said “it is doubtful that a child aged 14 or 15 could understand and weigh the long-term risks and consequences of the administration of puberty blockers” — although “in respect of young persons aged 16 and over, the legal position is that there is a presumption that they have the ability to consent to medical treatment.”

The writer at Gender Analysis — a blog launched in 2014 to explore ‘transgender science’ among others, said puberty became “optional” when technology was developed to “enable deliberate choice between natal puberty and puberty induced by cross-sex hormones.”

However, McNamara later on tweeted that if her earlier suggestion “seems excessive” there’s also the option of just giving the so-called “puberty blockers”— which are prescriptions used to postpone puberty in children — to those who have “gender dysphoria” which she said could benefit from it.

“Now on the other hand, if this seems excessive, I suppose we could *only* give puberty blockers to those few adolescents with diagnosed gender dysphoria where this treatment is most likely to have a clear benefit…,” Zinnia Jones said.

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