Mar 15, 2023
Dr. Susan Bradley, who helped pioneer "gender affirming care" in Canada, has now spoken against the popular model of "gender affirming care" by placing children on puberty blockers, according to an interview with the Daily Caller. Dr. Bradley founded the Child and Adolescent Gender Identity clinic in Toronto, Canada in 1975 began to issue puberty blockers to children around the early 2000s. Prior to the medication, she used more traditional forms of therapy such as talking with her patients. In her interview with the Daily Caller, Dr. Bradley stated in regards to the puberty blocker medication: "We were wrong. They're not as reversible as we always thought, and they have longer term effects on kids' growth and development, including making them sterile and quite a number of things affecting their bone growth. We thought that it was relatively safe, and endocrinologists said they're reversible, and that we didn't have to worry about it. I had thi