{"id":24936,"date":"2019-10-05T12:46:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T02:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=24936"},"modified":"2019-10-05T12:46:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T02:46:09","slug":"puberty-blocking-drug-used-on-trans-kids-linked-to-thousands-of-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=24936","title":{"rendered":"Puberty Blocking Drug Used on \u201cTrans\u201d Kids Linked to Thousands of Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"380\" height=\"201\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Puberty_Blockers.jpg\" alt=\"Puberty Blockers\" class=\"wp-image-24937\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Puberty_Blockers.jpg 380w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Puberty_Blockers-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBetween 2012 and June 30 of this year, the FDA documented over 40,764 adverse reactions suffered by patients who took leuprolide acetate (Lupron), which is used as a hormone blocker. More than 25,500 reactions logged from 2014-2019 were considered \u2018serious,\u2019 including 6,370 deaths.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/usnews\/health-care\/item\/33542-puberty-blocking-drug-used-on-trans-kids-linked-to-thousands-of-deaths\">https:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/usnews\/health-care\/item\/33542-puberty-blocking-drug-used-on-trans-kids-linked-to-thousands-of-deaths<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBetween 2012 and June 30 of this year, the FDA documented over 40,764 adverse reactions suffered by patients who took leuprolide acetate (Lupron), which is used as a hormone blocker. More than 25,500 reactions logged from 2014-2019 were considered \u2018serious,\u2019 including 6,370 deaths.\u201d https:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/usnews\/health-care\/item\/33542-puberty-blocking-drug-used-on-trans-kids-linked-to-thousands-of-deaths<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24938,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24936\/revisions\/24938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}