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Tall Girls Experiment
From 1959 to 1975 in the State of Victoria, Australia 1959 -1975, 168 tall girls were prescribed the drug diethylstilbestrol (DES), a synthetic hormone. The drug was given to make the girls mature faster and thus stop growing too tall. The carcinogenic properties of DES had been proven 4 years before the treatment was stopped.[1] They have stopped using DES but the practice of prescribing hormones to stop girls from growing taller has continued.
- High doses of hormones can have negative consequences later in life.
- No medical evidence that being tall is harmful to girls. Purely ideological.
- Rate of parental and child consent is significantly higher when doctors advocate the treatment and lower when doctors take a more neutral approach.
https://diethylstilbestrol.co.uk/des-is-the-reason-they-are-transgender/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iehC8kUZVCI
https://grad-mentor.com/sexuality-diethylstilbestrol/
https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2004/10/22/1225034.htm
http://www.hormonesmatter.com/des-used-stunt-growth-tall-girls/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3247030/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlM_EsgaET4&fbclid=IwAR1RKoEWT_bJUM2dTR080cIHHe5YpF773znXdEj9GKLJFZErLFxhtC05qAA (at 2.45 to 4.20)
https://inmotionmagazine.com/tootall.html
- ^ "DES given to young "too tall" girls in appalling medical experiment by Nora Cody / In Motion Magazine". inmotionmagazine.com. Retrieved 2020-05-31.