Science Children to no longer be prescribed puberty blockers, NHS England confirms

Children to no longer be prescribed puberty blockers, NHS England confirms​

The decision follows a review after a sharp rise in referrals were recorded at the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) run by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, which is closing at the end of March.
Tuesday 12 March 2024 17:14, UK

Children will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers at gender identity clinics, NHS England has confirmed.
Puberty blockers, which pause the physical changes of puberty such as breast development or facial hair, will now only be available to children as part of clinical research trials.

The government said it welcomed the "landmark decision", adding it would help ensure care is based on evidence and is in the "best interests of the child".
It follows a public consultation on the issue and an interim policy, and comes after NHS England commissioned an independent review of gender identity services for children under 18 in 2020.
The review followed a sharp rise in referrals to the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) - a specialised service for young people who experience difficulties in development of their gender identity - run by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, which is closing at the end of March.
In 2021-22, there were over 5,000 referrals to GIDS, compared to just under 250 a decade earlier.
The clinic has faced repeated scrutiny.


Gender identity clinic to close
Dr Hilary Cass, who led the review, published an interim report in February 2022 saying there was a need to move away from one unit and recommended regional options be available to better support children.
She also said there was a lack of long-term evidence on what happens to young people prescribed blockers - adding that GIDS had not gathered routine and consistent data meaning it was "not possible to accurately track the outcomes and pathways that children and young people take through the service".

After Tavistock closes, two new NHS services will open in early April, situated in Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, and Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool.
The NHS said children attending these clinics will be supported by experts in neurodiversity, paediatrics and mental health, "resulting in a holistic approach to care".
Around 5,000 children and young people are currently on the waiting list for referral into the new clinics, as 250 patients are expected to be transferred to them when they are open.
Currently there are fewer than 100 children on puberty blockers, who will continue their treatment at Leeds and University College London Hospital.

Health Minister, Maria Caulfield, said: "We have always been clear that children's safety and wellbeing is paramount, so we welcome this landmark decision by the NHS.
"Ending the routine prescription of puberty blockers will help ensure that care is based on evidence, expert clinical opinion and is in the best interests of the child."
The consultation on the future of services received more than 4,000 responses, comprised of members of the public, 22% from patients, 21% from parents, 10% from trans adults and 5% from clinicians.
John Stewart, national director of specialised commissioning at NHS England, said the responses were "polarised" in line with the debate around puberty blockers.
Mr Stewart said: "Many people said the policy didn't go far enough in terms of still allowing potential access (to puberty blockers) through research, and others saying clearly they disagreed fundamentally and that these should be routinely available to everyone who believes they need it."
Former prime minister Liz Truss "welcomed" NHS England's decision ahead of her Health and Equality Acts (Amendment) Bill which is up for its second reading on Friday.
The bill includes a ban on the prescription of body-altering hormones to children questioning their sex, both privately and on the NHS.
The most commonly used puberty blockers suppress the production of hormones, including testosterone and oestrogen.
NHS England hopes to have a study into their use by December - with eligibility criteria yet to be decided.

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[Morethanabitfoolish]

I'll believe it when some people are being prosecuted. But we'll see, it gives me some optimism that a measure of sanity is returning to one very specific area.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

And going through puberty as a toddler can have some horrific consequences.

Sounds like we need to develop a newer generation of puberty blockers with fewer potential side effects, not force kids to go through puberty in preschool.

I'll take an IQ drop over what happened to Lina Medina.

Even puberty on the earlier end of normal age increases the risk of everything from depression to substance abuse to CSA.

Ever the contrarian as always. I would be surprised a moid hate thread regular is defending trooning of all things, but then I remember that not pumping children full of artificial hormones to fuck with their adolescent development for the purposes of resembling the opposite sex is a rightoid conservatard position and must be opposed on the principle of my tribe vs. their tribe.

 

[Unnecessary Surgery Land]

"I'll take an IQ drop over what happened to Lina"

Lmao bitch what

Basically... Let's lobotomize potential rape victims to prevent rape because it's better to have brain damage than to be a rape victim?

Imagine reducing humans to their trauma/potential trauma and nothing more

 

[Garamok]

Imagine reducing humans to their trauma/potential trauma and nothing more

Progressive LOVE to do that. They love the victim role.

 

[RodgerDodger]

Nhs realising that they're on the hook for paying for all the psychotherapy, ssris, cancer and bone treatments that will be necessary as an indirect result of gender therapy

They'll pull the MAID card by the time these kids hit 30

 

[Florch]

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"say my name, trannies."

She just keeps on winning!

 

[AngryAboutInternets]

There is currently some top-quality seething over this but I think the majority of it can be summed up with:

Literally the only thing these deranged fuckers have is threatening to kill themselves, and threatening to convince people's children to kill themselves. I'm sure whole swaths of them are currently rubbing their surgically-crafted frontholes vigorously to the thought that their political enemies (people who don't want to give them eveerything they want with no resistance) might lose a child over this because their grooming is so effective when it gets in early.

A gender narcissist is the closest thing to an actual demon that currently exists on this earth.

 

[Bloom Worm Cross Field]

Based and not-pinkpilled, but I'm not optimistic yet.
The last time I was at an NHS hospital, I happened to notice a poster put up on one of those "sexual and gender health" type displays. It was one of those "guides to the different genders", and if it were anywhere other than a literal hospital I would have taken it as being obvious satire - like the "male, female, +50 mental disorders" image but with even more insane "genders" on than one made fun of online, of which a large number I'm certain were completely made up by the one random tumblr user that probably made it. There were seriously things like "double void-gender", each one with its own PNP transistor-looking logo. That was just one poster in one wing of one hospital but I think it's indicative of a rot that sets in when an institution's middle management becomes dominated by that certain kind of (usually) women that must always be seen to be Doing The Right Thing.

 

[Rigor Meowtis]

Rare W for the UK.

 

[Raspberry Cake]

Children will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers at gender identity clinics

She also said there was a lack of long-term evidence on what happens to young people prescribed blockers - adding that GIDS had not gathered routine and consistent data meaning it was "not possible to accurately track the outcomes and pathways that children and young people take through the service".

The bill includes a ban on the prescription of body-altering hormones to children questioning their sex, both privately and on the NHS.

Seems like a positive change overall, hopefully the Bongs can discover what confused children actually need.

 

[Niggernerd]

That'll increase happiness in UK a bit at least

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

That'll increase happiness in UK a bit at least

It'll have made JK smile at a bare minimum. Though I suspect her Twitter mentions look like a trashfire right now.

 

[Kulee Baba]

I have never been more hyped for a Jim Sterling video. Next week should be good to hear the obese AGP troon cry trans GENOCIDE.

 

[Racist Trash]

That'll increase happiness in UK a bit at least

nah Scotland is still attached and they are above the unhappyness cap by a lot.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

And going through puberty as a toddler can have some horrific consequences.

Sounds like we need to develop a newer generation of puberty blockers with fewer potential side effects, not force kids to go through puberty in preschool.

I'll take an IQ drop over what happened to Lina Medina.

Even puberty on the earlier end of normal age increases the risk of everything from depression to substance abuse to CSA.

Instead of giving small children osteoporosis to "protect them from predators" why don't we chemically castrate every freak who accesses, oh say, shota and loli?

Step right this way and please roll up your left sleeve to expose your deltoid.

 

[Flamin Park]

I predict a sudden massive increase in clinical trials. This is gonna turn out to be worthless isn't it?

Nah the NHS is bureaucratic as hell, trying to get so much as an off label prescription as a consenting adult will send you down a rabbit hole of referrals because NHS doctors treat deviating from official guidance the way the 40k imperium treats smearing shit on a portrait of the god emperor

 

[goat sneed]

Now just get those idiots to retract that bullshit about male troons breastfeeding and we're halway to optimism.

 

[Muppetstudios]

Seeing all the troons seething at kids not being given "life saving" NHS care. I'm sure all these trannies were just as mad when the courts refused to let Charlie Gard's parents take him abroad for private treatment rather than leave him to actually die from a real medical condition.

Their blatant hypocrisy against loving parents fucked over by the system makes me actually mad at the internet

 

[Flamin Park]

Of course not, but increased risk of sexual abuse is one of the many problems associated with precocious and early puberty in girls. I think this also plays a huge role in why it's also correlated with an increased risk of mental illnesses and substance abuse.

I went through puberty young enough, I can't imagine going through that shit as a toddler. Unless we get to a point where society stops doing such horrific shit to girls when they start puberty, I think it's dangerous to stop giving those kids puberty blockers entirely (and even in a perfect society they're still at higher risk of shit like breast cancer, stroke, PCOS, and other health problems).

We didn't stop giving schizophrenics antipsychotics just because the first generation of them had nasty side effects.

"If only these damn kids weren't so sexy, maybe they wouldn't be raped by pedos" is a funny meme. Running with it as a serious argument is new

 

[Heavy Duty Boots]

After Tavistock closes, two new NHS services will open in early April, situated in Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, and Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool.
The NHS said children attending these clinics will be supported by experts in neurodiversity, paediatrics and mental health, "resulting in a holistic approach to care".

Is no one except Otterly reading the same article as me?
This just means that the head of the hydra drew a little too much attention, got cut off, and two more will spring forth.
You can expect those "experts in neurodiversity and mental health" to be absolutely pozzed true believers that will still try their damnedest to supply children with these destructive drugs.
This is no W, it's but the first step of one. The W can't be claimed until ALL puberty blockers are ABSOLUTELY banned in both private and public clinics.
Don't rest on your laurels britbongs.