The GB Paralympic star Ellie Simmonds is an empathetic guide asked, ‘is it right to allow drug that can cure dwarfism?

Ellie Simmonds the Paralympic gold medalist got questioned five-time, where she set out the answer, “A World without Dwarfism? Was fraught. A new drug has been introduced that has potential to reduce some medical complication of dwarfism, but ethically correct o green light its uses? Or as Ellie put it into powerful thoughts, “I am worried it could be end of dwarfism.”

This swimming star started out with clear sense of where has sand for her dwarfism identity, she said “Being born with dwarfism has made me the person I am. These drugs are designed to make children with dwarfism grow taller… The assumption is that dwarfism is a problem that needs to be fixed.”

She met Thalia, aged 10, who is undergoing a trial of the drug vosoritide in London. Daily injections weren’t much fun and yet, in the past six months, she had grown almost 6in. Without the treatment, she would have grown only 2in.

Ellie respected the decision of Thalia’s mother to participate in the trial but still she was wary of a potential fervor among average-height people to “cure” dwarfism. She said, “Many don’t have any lived experience of dwarfism, how can they make that decision, when they’ve not grown up knowing what it’s like?”

But at the end of the program, Ellie’s feelings grown more complicated.

Ellie’s journey took her to America, where she met Chandler Crews, young woman who had undergone painful leg-lengthening surgery. They explained: “It was the body I felt I was supposed to be born into.”

She said, “It’s changed my view of it in a massive way. Everyone has a choice,” “Dwarfism in society can be pretty tricky.”