EXCLUSIVE: LA's TikTok Doctor for Trans Kids as young as Seven admits that puberty blockers and hormones CAN cause bone disease and infertility, at private student seminar
- Dr Erin Baroni styles herself as TikTok's 'QueerMD' and treats trans children
A
California pediatrician for
transgender kids has admitted that the puberty blockers and hormones she gives her young patients may lead to bone disease or leave them infertile, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Dr Erin Baroni, a pediatrician and instructor at UCLA, who styles herself as
TikTok's 'QueerMD', addressed the drawbacks in a private online workshop for medical students, which DailyMail.com was able to attend.
The side effects of these drugs on young patients are known, but the doctors who prescribe them seldom publicly discuss the downsides, which have become a hot-button issue in
US politics.
In the seminar, Dr Baroni said puberty blockers can weaken a trans patients' bones and cause osteoporosis, while cross-sex hormones can leave both boys and girls infertile.
'With the bone density concerns and fertility issues … we don't see these as things that are contraindications to treatment or something that really impedes treatment,' Dr Baroni told the students.
Dr Erin Baroni styles herself as the QueerMD for her thousands of TikTok followers
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