Study finds almost no good evidence on gender dysphoria drugs for young people

Two new meta-analyses looked at prior studies on puberty blockers and hormone therapy.

Puberty blockers are hormonal medications meant to suppress sex hormones in adolescents.

Hormone therapy for gender dysphoria uses masculinizing or feminizing hormones to induce secondary sex characteristics that align with one's gender identity.

But perhaps the difficulty in determining whether puberty blockers and hormone interventions are harmful or helpful comes down to the fact that there is no one-size-fits-all or even one -size-fits-most answer when it comes to certain outcomes, like those in the mental health realm. Puberty blockers and hormone therapies may be helpful in many cases and neutral or harmful in many others. The fact that there's no consensus is all the more reason to leave this decision to patients, parents, and doctors rather than the state..