I used to participate in DailyKos which eventually blocked me, and when I said the specific term for these drugs is chemical castration, literally those words, it caused people’s head to explode.
“No it’s a puberty blocker.” Castration blocks puberty, and nothing else. Castrati had their “puberty blocked”. There is literally no difference between the phrase “puberty blocker”and “chemical castration”.
It’s like calling prefrontal lobotomy a “depression blocker”.
Because people are willfully ignorant of sex, even elementary ideas like “blocking puberty” means “castrating” simply go over heads. The beauty of chemical castration is that it works on both boys and girls. Previously you couldn’t “castrate” girls so easily.
I used to participate in DailyKos which eventually blocked me, and when I said the specific term for these drugs is chemical castration, literally those words, it caused people’s head to explode.
“No it’s a puberty blocker.” Castration blocks puberty, and nothing else. Castrati had their “puberty blocked”. There is literally no difference between the phrase “puberty blocker”and “chemical castration”.
It’s like calling prefrontal lobotomy a “depression blocker”.
Because people are willfully ignorant of sex, even elementary ideas like “blocking puberty” means “castrating” simply go over heads. The beauty of chemical castration is that it works on both boys and girls. Previously you couldn’t “castrate” girls so easily.