{"id":1345217,"date":"2022-02-26T10:22:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T15:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1345217"},"modified":"2022-02-26T10:22:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T15:22:47","slug":"swedish-board-of-health-u-turns-on-hormone-blockers-for-trans-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/swedish-board-of-health-u-turns-on-hormone-blockers-for-trans-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Board of Health U-Turns on Hormone Blockers for Trans Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fswedish-board-of-health-u-turns-on-hormone-blockers-for-trans-kids%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1345217&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1187557308-e1645738547296-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The Swedish\u00a0National Board of Health and Welfare has made a U-turn on its guidelines regarding hormone therapy for children who say they are transgender, claiming the risks to the children outweigh possible benefits.<\/p>\n<p>The National Board of Health and Welfare is expected to release new guidelines after delaying a report in December following a series of investigations by the television programme \u201cUppdrag Granskning\u201d last November, which examined the effects of hormone treatment on children.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The new guidelines are set to replace a prior 2015 guideline that recommended the use of puberty blockers for children as being \u201csafe and secure,\u201d broadcaster SVT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svt.se\/nyheter\/granskning\/ug\/socialstyrelsen-tvarvander-om-transvarden-av-unga\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the health board, the risks of hormone treatments outweigh the benefits stating, \u201cPending\u2026 a research study, our assessment is that the treatments can be given in exceptional cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Lind\u00e9n, Head of The National Board of Health and Welfare, also stated, \u201cThe studies available do not provide sufficient information about the treatment. We cannot rule out negative effects of it and we do not know if it is useful, it is always associated with problems and risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Swedish Hospital Ends Hormone Treatment for Children with Gender Dysphoria <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Jip1Ae8gp5\">https:\/\/t.co\/Jip1Ae8gp5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1391079700282421251?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The new guidelines come just months after a report claimed that doctors at the\u00a0Karolinska University Hospital had been well aware of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/27\/sweden-trans-kids-suffered-injuries-as-a-result-of-puberty-blockers\/\">children with injuries<\/a> as a result of hormone blockers for months before the injuries became public in November.<\/p>\n<p>In one case, a girl who wanted to become a boy was put on puberty blockers at age 11 and developed serious side effects after five years of treatment, including\u00a0osteoporosis and damage to the vertebrae in the child\u2019s back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe felt so bad that he tried suicide attempts on several occasions. We didn\u2019t understand, we thought our child would feel better from the treatment,\u201d the mother of the child said.<\/p>\n<p>Karolinska University Hospital, once a pioneer in gender dysphoria treatment for children in Sweden, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/05\/08\/swedish-top-hospital-ends-hormone-treatment-children-dysphoria\/\">stopped recommending hormone treatments<\/a> in May of last year due to potential side effects from the treatment.<\/p>\n<h5><span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><em><strong><span class=\"a-size-large\">Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at\u00a0<span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomlinsonCJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@TomlinsonCJ<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>or email at\u00a0ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swedish\u00a0National Board of Health and Welfare has made a U-turn on its guidelines regarding hormone therapy for children who say they are transgender, claiming the risks to the children<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1345217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1345217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}