Puberty blockers for under-18s with gender dysphoria will be banned indefinitely across the UK except for use in clinical trials, the government has announced.
Wes Streeting, the health secretary, said that after receiving advice from medical experts, he would make existing emergency measures banning the sale and supply of puberty blockers indefinite.
The Department of Health and Social Care said the Commission on Human Medicines (CHM) had published independent expert advice that there was “currently an unacceptable safety risk in the continued prescription of puberty blockers to children”.
WTF puberty blockers aren’t used for only trans kids. They are also used to treat precocious puberty.
That’s still legal. Only banned for gender dysmorphia.
Unacceptable safety risk in trans kids feeling comfortable with who they are as human beings.
So puberty blockers are not legal until puberty is over? Makes complete sense /s
Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s with gender dysphoria across UK
I fixed the title. Of course, they’re still available for other medical conditions, they’re just singling out gender dysphoria.
Wes Streeting is pro child self-harm, at least as long as those children are trans. Fucking scum
Ouch.
“Medical Experts”
I don’t know about the issue enough for me to comment on if she is biased or not, but I found this NYT interview (archive.org link) and she really seems to try to be playing both sides to me. Her main arguement seems to be don’t treat this as an issue to resolve gender, that makes you ignore mental health/depression/other things, but with there not being the best care of that nature available for trans individuals, what avenue is left for them?
It sounds like she wants to go on about a lack of enough proof for her to stop treatment, but it also doesn’t sound like she has enough proof to say it’s harmful, but that doesn’t seem to discourage her helping eliminate it.
Here’s the biography and credentials of the primary expert: https://cass.independent-review.uk/about-the-review/the-chair/
I can understand being angry with what’s happening but I don’t believe there’s any question about that persons medical expertise and credentials.
Credentials sure, but Cass has also been found to follow anti Trans groups, threw out any positive study that wasn’t blind (which would have been unethical to run) and the report itself was influenced by a similar report originally done in Florida under Ron DeSantis. This is a biased report that started with a conclusion and ignored any evidence that disagreed.
Well, they have lost the credible part.
What do they think puberty blockers do?
think
I’m gonna stop you right there, no useful thought process was involved here at all.
Care to elaborate on the safety risks there, Wes?
While I don’t agree with it’s findings, there is a 388-page report this decision is based on.
that was debunked numerous times
What was the debunked? That a report exists?
The report exists, but it has so many errors, misinterpreting its own data to bend to the conclusions its authors decided they wanted to find, lots of cherry picking, and ignoring any fact inconvenient to its conclusions.
Imagine a paper that concludes that dowsing or homeopathy is good science. It’s about that accurate.
Also it was commissioned by the Tories, to be done by a woman who before even starting her research for the report, was clearly biased against trans people.
the entire points of the report were debunked… like a lot
Can you highlight the main errors of the report?
K…I started my original comment with, “While I don’t agree with it’s findings,” and was responding to a comment asking for elaboration on the safety risks. I was just providing context, not stating the report was gospel-truth or anything.
Wait… are you saying you are a messenger? GET HIM!!!1111
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How is denying scientifically proven medical care “common sense”?
Because kids under the age of 18 shouldn’t be allowed to use these types of medications. I just don’t think we’re fully aware of the consequences at that age. I mean, I did a ton of stupid shit when I was a kid… didn’t we all? I look back and think, WTF was I thinking?
EDIT: my comment that was removed literally said “common sense”. Y’all getting worse than Reddit…
Are the unknown consequences more or less severe than depression, self-harm, and suicide?
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evil fucking bastards
Commission on Human Medicines (CHM) had published independent expert advice that there was “currently an unacceptable safety risk in the continued prescription of puberty blockers to children”.
Wait, that means Trump was right?
No.
