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by RC_ITR 1 day ago
>The number of members with GH claims per 10,000 beneficiaries under age 18 rose steadily from 5.1 in 2001 to 14.6 in 2016, without a dramatic change around 2003, the ISS approval date.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6795021/

Just as a reminder for everyone here, 0.14% of US children (+3x in a decade) are given Human Growth Hormone because they are short. Our government says that being in the bottom 2 percentiles is a medically valid condition to be treated with hormones.

Differentially focusing your emotional response on sex-expression hormone therapy vs. hormone therapy generally is reflective of bias.