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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[Dedans]

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.

I agree that it's not over, but this is still a massive victory since it is much harder for kids to get their hands on puberty blockers.

Great Ormond Street is a very reputable hospital for children attached to a charity that has truly excellent doctors, and is far less opaque than the Tavistock centre. Despite this, I am concerned about the quality of the new doctors brought in to deal with the children suffering from "gender dysphoria". Sadly, many great paediatricians and child psychologists have resigned in protest before the new clinic has even opened:

"In January 2024 it was revealed that the new NHS clinic at GOSH "has been hit by revolt before it has opened after several experts quit over apparent concerns with staff training" and that "The resignations included experts who believed the training materials were not following the independent recommendations made by Dr Hilary Cass, former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. Namely, that the service should provide an “exploratory” rather than “affirmative” approach to the child’s health". Some clinicians working on the new training materials and who did not resign are understood to have felt it important to affirm a patient’s gender identity and believed patients could benefit from medication. In March 2024 NHS England has confirmed children attending these clinics will no longer receive puberty blockers and will be supported in line with the recommendations made by Dr Hilary Cassby “resulting in a holistic approach to care”."

 

[Positron]

Let's sue Mother Nature. We've had enough with this abusive cunt!




Yup, whenever you fell ill, we should invite 4000 randos to vote for which treatment is best for you. I have a feeling that crystal healing would win out most of the time.

Trust The Science until Science denies you what you want!



LOL what "condemnation"?

Still, let's give our applause to the heroes behind puberty blocker's fall from grace: Hillary Cass and Riittakerttu Kaltiala!

 

[HERHERHERHER]

Not yet, no. The Tavistock gids was closed to stop people looking too closely at the Tavistock and what it does. Now two new centres will open.
You see they purposefully mention specialists in neurodiversity at these centres. Is that saying they will be acknowledging autism related issues ? Blockers only in trials is a positive because any new trials would need to pass an ethics review and so it’s not easy to just start a trial for the sake of it. It would be better to have no blockers at all ever.
The fact kids are being treated in Leeds is depressing because Leeds is a hotbed of Troon horror and general alphabet takeover. The dodgy groups of mesmac and mermaids are based out of Leeds, there is something very rotten there.
It’s a start. Long way to go.

Jimmy Savile was also from Leeds. Coincidence? I think not. Leeds has always been a hotbed of degeneracy.

 

[Halfnium Bomb]

increased risk of sexual abuse is one of the many problems associated with precocious and early puberty in girls

This problem is not associated with precocious puberty, it's associated with pedophile rapists.

Raptor, it's clear that you arrived at your conclusion first, and are scrambling to find a reasoning for it second. Try again, from first principles.

Edit: Rembering raptor is raptor, I don't think she's physically able to do this. I don't think Raptor has any axiomatic principles. Rather Raptor has emotional responses she tries to justify ex-post-facto. Hence:

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

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

USA is behind fucking England on combating this? We're a disgrace. Good news nonetheless.

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

If the side effects are worse than the conditions then you do, which seems to be the situation here as the crux of your argument is "they might be depressed or anxious". Well, if that's the case there's safer drugs and therapy for those issues.

Now, if they're at a substantial risk of developing a serious physical condition which is worse than the drugs' side effects that's different, but you've not demonstrated that.

 

[Dick Mason]

Change the name to National Holocaust Service because they're genociding trans kids! - pedophiles, probably.

Great, now they've nationalized the Holocaust. Goddamn commies.

 

[Racist Trash]

Jimmy Savile was also from Leeds. Coincidence? I think not. Leeds has always been a hotbed of degeneracy.

Wait a second if you remove the L and replace it with a p.
Peeds.

 

[FrancineCansMcGee]

People who supported using this treatment on children were wrong. They were dumb and wrong and unethical. Instead of continuing to talk about the topic of children’s health, they should put on a dunce cap and sit quietly in the corner forever while the wiser and more ethical people talk.

 

[Otterly]

Jimmy Savile was also from Leeds. Coincidence? I think not. Leeds has always been a hotbed of degeneracy.

Leeds is also where the Uks first tolerance zone was set up. Discontinued a few years ago after massive local outcry but it’s not like the problem went away when they did.
MESMAC are in Leeds, mermaids are. Saville preying on kids at St. James’ - there seems to be a culture of turning a blind eye to a lot of very nasty stuff.

 

[lautaro]

Was it actually given to children, though? The average age reported was around 15 I think, which is very late if the idea was delaying puberty. Women are almost adults by then and men have already developed most of their penis and a big part of height.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

It'll have made JK smile at a bare minimum.

Meanwhile, I think Lucas and LFJ didn't smiled at all when they heard the news.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Meanwhile, I think Lucas and LFJ didn't smiled at all when they heard the news.

It'll be meaningless to them since it's not going to roll outwards and the incoming Labour government may either roll it back or try to kick any decisions down the the road rather than allow further research. For them it's mostly an excuse to scream about trans genocide some more.

 

[sraczkomat]

Some actually based decisions coming from England? I thought I'd never see it again.

 

[pikachudidnothingwrong]

Great news. The walls finally started to come down and now things are starting to happen. This a great day for reason, medicine, science and children.

Places like reddit and ReeeEra taking it well.



That is so damn dangerous.. especially when specifically talking about children. Yet it remains up. Trans privilege is quite a thing in progressive hives.
Trust the science only goes as far as they agree with it apparently.

 

[AnotherPleb]

It seems like you are obsessing over this. Because boys can also get precocious puberty. Here's a case of a man who inherited precocious puberty from his father, who inherited from his father, who inherited it from his father.... they tracked it down during history. I think your actual problem is when degenerates take advantage of girls. It's not the early puberty itself.

One thing to realize about AR is that she has a pathological hatred of men as a whole.

You take your small child for a routine dental checkup. She has perfect teeth.
The dentist drills all of them and pulls a few leaving her with lifelong pain and bite issues. This is to be encouraged because sometimes an adult needs a root canal.
This is literally the argument for blockers.
It needs to be stopped and everyone involved in pushing it needs to be prosecuted

I'd settle with them all being prostituted.

Leeds is also where the Uks first tolerance zone was set up. Discontinued a few years ago after massive local outcry but it’s not like the problem went away when they did.
MESMAC are in Leeds, mermaids are. Saville preying on kids at St. James’ - there seems to be a culture of turning a blind eye to a lot of very nasty stuff.

It's just part of the UK's culture of shitting on the underclasses.