‘You can’t reverse the clock’: Pamela Garfield-Jaeger on ‘gender-affirming’ care

"I don't even call it side effects. I call them effects…These are the drugs that they use to chemically castrate criminals. Lupron. So that's not a 'side effect.'

…Oftentimes, when you're doing a medical intervention, you make a choice between one difficult thing [and] another if there's some kind of really severe medical issue.

However, we're taking physically healthy children, and then giving them these effects. That's the difference. And then calling it medicine, instead of helping them with whatever psychological distress they're having.

…We're told over and over again that these drugs are reversible. … How can something that suppresses puberty be called reversible?…Boys end up with these micro penises. And girls, they don't develop their bones, their bone density doesn't develop.

…You can't reverse the clock.”

Pamela Garfield-Jaeger, author of "A Practical Response to Gender Distress: Tips and Tools for Families"