The UK Bans Puberty Blockers for Minors Indefinitely, Citing Unacceptable Risks

From David Strom at Hot Air, the repressive, fascist UK is actually less insane on this issue than the US.

The UK had already banned puberty blockers on a temporary basis for new users -- they still allowed it for those already ruined by puberty blockers.

Now they make that ban permanent, or, at least, "indefinite."

Ban on puberty blockers to be made indefinite on experts' advice

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Existing emergency measures banning the sale and supply of puberty-suppressing hormones will be made indefinite, following official advice from medical experts.

The Commission on Human Medicines (CHM) has provided independent expert advice that there is currently an unacceptable safety risk in the continued prescription of puberty blockers to children. It recommends indefinite restrictions while work is done to ensure the safety of children and young people.

The NHS stopped the routine prescription of puberty blocker treatments to under 18s in March 2024, following the Cass Review into gender identity services.

Puberty blockers for the treatment of gender incongruence and/or gender dysphoria in under 18s were banned temporarily in May 2024 after the Cass Review found there was insufficient evidence to show they were safe. Legislation will be updated today to make the order indefinite and will be reviewed in 2027.

Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting said:

Children's healthcare must always be evidence-led. The independent expert Commission on Human Medicines found that the current prescribing and care pathway for gender dysphoria and incongruence presents an unacceptable safety risk for children and young people.

Dr Cass' review also raised safety concerns around the lack of evidence for these medical treatments . We need to act with caution and care when it comes to this vulnerable group of young people, and follow the expert advice.

We are working with NHS England to open new gender identity services, so people can access holistic health and wellbeing support they need. We are setting up a clinical trial into the use of puberty blockers next year, to establish a clear evidence base for the use of this medicine.

So they're still testing these terrible drugs on children, but at least they're not allowing any old doctor to prescribe them willy-nilly.

The UK looks at America and laughs.

The trans cult is crumbling in Europe -- now America needs to catch up Tavistock whistleblowers and the Cass Review reshaped care for transgender children in the UK. In the States, the veil is slowly lifting

Whoever would have thought that chopping off the healthy breast tissue of 14-year-old girls could mean you end up in court?

Well, anyone, actually, who has been paying any attention to the gender madness of the last decade. In the US, where the practice of medicine is particularly connected to the practice of law, I predict a deluge of court cases over what has been done to children in the name of "gender affirming care".

Last week, a 20-year-old, Clementine Breen, filed a medical negligence claim against a Los Angeles-based doctor, Johanna Olsen-Kennedy, claiming she was rushed into irreversible treatment when she was 12. Olsen-Kennedy is the medical director of the Centre for Transyouth Heath and Development at the Children's Hospital in LA. Claim documents say that Breen saw a school counsellor when she was 12, and was unsure whether she was gay or bisexual or trans. She had experienced sexual abuse at six. It is claimed that Olson-Kennedy did not perform any mental health evaluation herself of Breen, but said she met the criteria for the commencement of puberty blockers.

Within a year she was put on testosterone and at 14 underwent a double mastectomy. No one, it appears, was monitoring her mental health and she began to feel worse and started cutting herself. Olson-Kennedy has also refused to publish the findings of a $10 million taxpayer-funded study showing that puberty blockers did not improve the mental health of children.

Breen now says she may be infertile, and says that she was never evaluated properly. Her parents tried to intervene, but Olson-Kennedy told them that this young girl may be suicidal, even though she had never expressed these thoughts.

This is, after all, the script, isn't it? That without mutilating the bodies of teenagers, these kids will all kill themselves. That there is no evidence for this doesn't appear to matter. Until it gets to court and then it does.

This is where we and many other European countries are far ahead of America. When evidence of the harmful effects of puberty blockers began to come in via longitudinal studies, the NHS stopped routinely prescribing them to under 18s. Finland, Sweden, Norway and Holland have also stopped prescribing blockers and cross-sex hormones to minors.

We have the whistleblowers at the Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) and the four years of research headed up by Dr Hilary Cass to thank for bringing puberty blockers to a halt in the UK. Though I note that Cass is not on the BBC Women of the Year list, but someone called Brigitte Baptiste, a transgender scientist who says that trees can change sex -- I am not making this up -- is.

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posted by Ace at 01:10 PM

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