Puberty blockers for under-18s banned after warning of ‘unacceptable risk’ to children - Existing emergency measures in UK outlawing sale and supply to be made indefinite following official advice from medical experts

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/dec/11/puberty-blockers-to-be-banned-indefinitely-for-under-18s-across-uk

https://archive.is/BOH0h

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”.

Streeting said the commission had recommended indefinite restrictions while work is done to ensure the safety of children and young people.

The NHS announced in March that children would no longer be prescribed puberty blockers at gender identity clinics, with the then Conservative government saying this would help ensure care was based on evidence and was in the “best interests of the child”.

In May, that government introduced a ban on puberty blockers through emergency legislation, preventing the prescription of the medication from European or private prescribers and restricting NHS provision to within clinical trials.

A challenge to that ruling, brought by campaigners who said they were concerned for the safety and welfare of young trans people in the UK, failed in July when the high court ruled that the ban was lawful.

Dr Hilary Cass, who wrote the Cass review into children’s gender care and published her final report in April, described puberty blockers as “powerful drugs with unproven benefits and significant risks”.

She said: “That is why I recommended that they should only be prescribed following a multi-disciplinary assessment and within a research protocol. I support the government’s decision to continue restrictions on the dispensing of puberty blockers for gender dysphoria outside the NHS where these essential safeguards are not being provided.”

 

[Hitman One]

Something I don't quite understand is that, looking at the screeching on X, the streets should be at least three layers deep in dead trans kids by now.

Just taken the dog for a walk and all I've seen is a dead rabbit and a crisp packet.

It's the world's shittest genocide.

 

[Nero Fiddled]

was the rabbit trans?

It identified as roadkill...

 

[Sexual Chocolate]

trans people

Troons.

Nothing about troonism is logical to begin with.

We should just go back to 1997, when trannies were a punchline on TV and not a thing irl, and watch SeaQuest: DSV. How hard can being normal be anyway?

 

[Grave Danger]

Definitely good piece of legislation to come out of the UK. The only thing I find slightly concering about this news is for children who might actually medically need puberty blockers, such as those experiencing extremely early puberty- but this decision seems like it's only banning it for gender-fuckery related reasons, so I'm not too worried.

I do hope they actually do clinical research into the long-term effects of puberty blockers on kids who DO medically need it, because their parents deserve to be informed on the potential adverse side affects. As for the troons who are now without puberty blockers, I hope they are able to find peace. I do not wish ill-will on people who have been tricked into adopting an identity by pharmaceutical companies.

 

[Not A Bunny]

There’s this weird discussion thread that goes like, but children can’t be forced into growing into a body they don’t like!

Well, that’s the body they have, and it should grow uninterrupted into what it was made to be, not some monstrosity by drugs that will interrupt healthy processes.

My generation was told there were no easy fixes, and you had to learn to accept yourself. Whatever in the fuck happened to that?

 

[Tasty Tatty]

There’s this weird discussion thread that goes like, but children can’t be forced into growing into a body they don’t like!

Well, that’s the body they have, and it should grow uninterrupted into what it was made to be, not some monstrosity by drugs that will interrupt healthy processes.

My generation was told there were no easy fixes, and you had to learn to accept yourself. Whatever in the fuck happened to that?

We're told that being obese is normal and you should accept it despite you can change that, but being a girl or a boy can be a mistake by nature that can be fixed despite being physically impossible.

I dunno how average leftists can live with those two contradictory ideas in their heads.

 

[King Koopa]

It identified as roadkill...

Proof that a successful transition IS possible.

 

[High-Fructose Corn Syrup]

Wow the British did something right?
They now are above Germany in my book.

 

[Not A Bunny]

I dunno how average leftists can live with those two contradictory ideas in their heads.

I do. They shift the goalposts on what they believe based on what they want the outcome to be. That's pretty much it.

 

[Marvin]

Foreign law may not hold much water to others but this can be pointed to for an already established precedent that was, wait for it, literally approved of by experts and science.

That's actually a really good point. I didn't really think it through, but this is a really profound, far reaching decision.

Like in the US, I always figured with our current Supreme Court, the kid tranny medicine ban case would go in our favor. But with this as a precedent? Not even a legal one, just as a scientific/medical bureaucratic precedent that another country considers puberty blockers worth banning, the troon argument is basically dead in the water.

If the state has any power at all to regulate medicine, which they obviously do (we license doctors), then they have the power to decide what is or isn't legitimate medicine.

There’s this weird discussion thread that goes like, but children can’t be forced into growing into a body they don’t like!

Well, that’s the body they have, and it should grow uninterrupted into what it was made to be, not some monstrosity by drugs that will interrupt healthy processes.

My generation was told there were no easy fixes, and you had to learn to accept yourself. Whatever in the fuck happened to that?

You might as well say you don't consent to getting old and getting wrinkles and that botox is medically necessary psychological treatment.

 

[High-Fructose Corn Syrup]

How are the usual suspects taking this?
Comparing it to being a jew in Europe in the 1930s?

Or are they already at the intellectual in Cambodia in the late 1970s point?

 

[Positron]

Watch, they're now gonna do a moral panic campaign of "The rise of Trans youth suicide in the UK"

Sure they will, but they'd be crying wolf, and the return is diminishing.

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

Like in the US, I always figured with our current Supreme Court, the kid tranny medicine ban case would go in our favor. But with this as a precedent? Not even a legal one, just as a scientific/medical bureaucratic precedent that another country considers puberty blockers worth banning, the troon argument is basically dead in the water.

If the state has any power at all to regulate medicine, which they obviously do (we license doctors), then they have the power to decide what is or isn't legitimate medicine.

Thank you. And in your legal estimation, what will happen with the scotus case right now regarding this? I know I shouldn’t expect an answer right away but I’m very anxious to know

 

[Marvin]

Thank you. And in your legal estimation, what will happen with the scotus case right now regarding this? I know I shouldn’t expect an answer right away but I’m very anxious to know

I think the anti-troon groups put in as much info as they could.

I do think the Cass report got in.

I think we'll get a wholesale greenlight that banning troonery is a legit state right.

I think this was a hail Mary by the troons.

States clearly can license and unlicense quacks.

 

[$5.3 Million Dollars]

How are the usual suspects taking this?
Comparing it to being a jew in Europe in the 1930s?

Or are they already at the intellectual in Cambodia in the late 1970s point?

Much coping and seething. A good majority have fled to their hugbox on Bluesky, and just searching Puberty Blocker gives you a bunch of rees. This one stood out though because of the link to a document that shows how these people are trying to argue in an actual official setting.

https://bsky.app/profile/fiercemum.bsky.social/post/3ld235xe3qk2g

https://growinguptransgender.com/2024/12/11/puberty-blocker-ban-invited-expert-submission/

https://archive.ph/VVtC2

So what does a more official source have to say about Precocious Puberty?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK544313/

https://archive.is/sosMa

Across all the literature I could find this about sums it up. Blockers are used in some but not all cases of PP, not for half a dozen years at a time, and even their use for PP can easily be called into question. Troons keep relying on studies insisting normal kids are given blockers like candy not realizing they're pointing out an actual problem with the current low standards of care of a rare occurrence in children.

 

[Nero Fiddled]

https://growinguptransgender.com/2024/12/11/puberty-blocker-ban-invited-expert-submission/

This "expert submission" lists the evidential references at the end of it, that academia thing that normal human beings just skip over as it's.... dull.

Being a bit abnormal, I took a look at it.
With the exception of one reference, all the references are attributed to documents by "Horton C", which is Dr Cal Horton, who I suspect wrote the submission.

It appears that Cal is a "research fellow in Oxford Brookes' Centre for Diversity Policy Research and Practice (CDPRP) with a specialism in trans inclusion and Applied Trans Studies" - so someone who's future career depends on the continuation of this quack butchery.

This shows exactly why Cass didn't want people like this having input to her report.

 

[Sexual Chocolate]

How are the usual suspects taking this?
Comparing it to being a jew in Europe in the 1930s?

Or are they already at the intellectual in Cambodia in the late 1970s point?

Trannies on Reddit are taking this news calmly, with the dignity and grace we have come to expect from them.

I'm currently 28 years old, but it feels as though time is shorter as the government is ramping up for full-blown genocide.

Nobody is on our side, and everyone is on theirs. The public wants us dead. Not just the kids, but all of us.

Public are frothing at the mouth for it. They want blood. Even in my day to day interactions with them, it's obvious.

Last week I left my apartment (a rarity) to run errands. I was outside for less than an hour. In that time, at least five cis men threatened to do things to me I won't repeat. In broad daylight, before 3pm.

Another tranny writes, "Why us? "


Oi mate, you got a loicense for that pillow biting?

When there is no more room in Hell, the troons shall walk the Earth:

I hope that Hell exists because we'll never see justice in this life. So that when these monsters die and go to Hell, I will be waiting there, ready to inflict all sorts of horrors I cannot express on reddit and a determination to see if someone can die twice.

Nearly 500 trannies agreed with this tranny that children should be given bathtub troonshine:

If you're a responsible parent, why wouldn't you give your mentally ill children DIY troon hormones in defiance of laws and medical advice?

It's afraid!

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

Another tranny writes, "Why us? "

"How fucking dare they use some of the most vulnerable children around as political tools. How fucking dare they attempt to make the decision for people about who they are. They will never succeed and they should know their place; why are they so dead set on causing such suffering? What do they possibly hope to gain?" - normal people when talking about troons

 

[Cynicaller]

My generation was told there were no easy fixes, and you had to learn to accept yourself. Whatever in the fuck happened to that?

Your generation has lead coursing through their veins.

But that's besides the point, I just wanted to point out that if there's a single person in this thread championing this as a W while simultaneously advocating for circumcision, you're a hypocrite. And nobody wants to be a hypocrite.

 

[Not A Bunny]

Your generation has lead coursing through their veins.

That may be, but my generation is the one that's teaching this generation that self-acceptance is not necessary and constant validation from other people is good and right.

I suspect it's because my generation is the first to believe that your birth isn't your destiny and that it's easier than ever to change who you are and where you live. We also were the first generation of kids to feel the economic effects of both parents working. So, we were kids with emotionally distant parents both looking for parent figures and making sure that their children's potential is squashed by anything even resembling adversity.

We may be tough, but we've decided the generation that follows us should be weak.