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"The Final Report also "set out the very complex events that take place in the adolescent brain during puberty. Neuroscientists believe that these changes are driven by a combination of chronological age and sex hormones. Blocking the release of these sex hormones could have a range of unintended and as yet unidentified consequences": paragraph 14.35. Such risks included that:
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"There is no way of knowing whether the normal trajectory of the sexual and gender identity may be permanently altered [by the use of puberty blockers]"
(paragraph 14.37).
"A further concern...is that adolescent sex hormone surges may trigger the opening of a critical period for experience-dependent rewiring of neural circuits underlying executive function (i.e. maturation of the part of the brain concerned with planning, decision making and judgement). If this is the case, brain maturation may be temporarily or permanently disrupted by the use of puberty blockers"