One of the reasons anabolic steroids are illegal in sports is that they greatly increase users’ chances of developing health problems and premature death. Thus have we long known that manipulating your body’s hormones is to play with fire. Nonetheless, children who believe they’re “stuck in the body of the wrong sex” have often been treated with puberty blockers. But now, a report out of Sweden indicates that such kids are often being severely and permanently damaged by this radical intervention.
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