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Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said so-called chemical castration would be used in 20 prisons in two regions and that she was considering making it mandatory.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

What chemical castration is? I don't want to Google it and find something gross

[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Using hormones to disable sexual function in males

[–] [email protected] 18 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Absolutely not. You can still get a boner on the drugs used, a lot of trans women still have penetrative intercourse as tops and/or enjoy sex while being on a similar stack (Although with added female sex hormones)

The theory of chemical castration is that removing testosterone makes you less likely to commit sexual assault, this is backed by an observed lower recidivism rate among people willing to undergo chemical castration and nothing else.

It's giving a man "menopause". Its shitty.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Like in preventing erections or something else? It's permanent?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

No to both. Although there can be permanent side effects (But that's true for any hormone medication taken over longer periods)