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.”

 

[Clem Fandango]

Such a weird time to be alive. Like, they came up with this new diagnosis of dysphoria, then came up with a new treatment of puberty blockers and hormones, for kids, rolled it out..... then they had a debate over the risks and dangers associated with it?? After they'd already been doing it for years?

Is that how it usually works in medicine? Seems kinda backwards. At least they came to right decision in the end, I guess.

 

[Not A Bunny]

Is that how it usually works in medicine?

I don't know if it's medicine more than it is the zeitgeist.

We've embraced immediate gratification instead of thinking about what downstream effects could happen in the name of doing something, because, damn it, our kids are at stake.

It's a perverse combination of consumerism, immediately available information, peer pressure, and isolation. A new sense of hedonism that refuses commitment or consideration as long as whatever you can be convinced feels right is what you should embrace rather than dealing with what actually exists.

You're not comfortable with your body? Well, that isn't natural (even though it is), so change it!

You don't like your family? You can always choose a new one!

You don't like your identity? Good thing gender is fluid!

Everything is now a commodity, right down to your body, that can be bought and sold and overhauled.

Jesus, it's so fucking disturbing to think about.

 

[frozen_runner]

I don't think they're going to be bootlegging so-called puberty blockers though. The only reason they can do it with estrogen is because you can already buy powdered estrogen in bulk from sketchy Chinese chemical suppliers. Just add bathwater!

Just add Gamer Girl Bathwater for extra euphoria!

 

[The handsome tard]

I look forward to the day we look back at this nonsense the same way we look back at lobotomies and doctors saying that smoking/rubbing radioactive water on your lips is A-okay.

With confused horror that we ever thought that was fine.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

Everything is now a commodity, right down to your body, that can be bought and sold and overhauled.

^this was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual.

 

[Tomie Ito]

Canada please follow suit.

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

"because that's medicine "cis"kids take too!!!!!" Ignoring the fact that normal kids are on it only a fraction of the time troons are.

and for proven medical conditions where the treatment has been validated in clinical trials that use evidence based medicine, not "If you don't give me what I want I'll kill myself!!!"

It's the world's shittest genocide.

Stalin would be so disappointed...

 

[pangolins]

Saw this on r/transgenderUK:


Whilst what they are saying about the amount of votes and her pursuing legal action is true, the independent candidate that nearly beat him was one of those muslim candidates running on a pro-palestine platform. She has said nothing about puberty blockers, I suspect she is significantly less tolerant of gay people than an actual gay man, but apparently they want her to be an mp instead. They are in general very intent on blaming Wes Streeting personally for this, even if he had lost his seat as mp this would almost certainly still be happening.

 

[Miquella]

I don't know if it's medicine more than it is the zeitgeist.

We've embraced immediate gratification instead of thinking about what downstream effects could happen in the name of doing something, because, damn it, our kids are at stake.

It's a perverse combination of consumerism, immediately available information, peer pressure, and isolation. A new sense of hedonism that refuses commitment or consideration as long as whatever you can be convinced feels right is what you should embrace rather than dealing with what actually exists.

You're not comfortable with your body? Well, that isn't natural (even though it is), so change it!

You don't like your family? You can always choose a new one!

You don't like your identity? Good thing gender is fluid!

Everything is now a commodity, right down to your body, that can be bought and sold and overhauled.

Jesus, it's so fucking disturbing to think about.

But watch everyone continue to worship the capitalist economic model and multiparty democratic model which promotes this by definition never change westoids

 

[TaimuRadiu]

Such a weird time to be alive. Like, they came up with this new diagnosis of dysphoria, then came up with a new treatment of puberty blockers and hormones, for kids, rolled it out..... then they had a debate over the risks and dangers associated with it?? After they'd already been doing it for years?

Is that how it usually works in medicine? Seems kinda backwards. At least they came to right decision in the end, I guess.

It wasn't new, the diagnosis has been around for like a century and if you read human history there are definitely trans people in it.

This, however? Puberty blockers aren't safe and giving Lupron to 8 year olds who had actual precocious puberty wasn't safe but it was considered by their parents to be better than suddenly having them go thru puberty.

But watch everyone continue to worship the capitalist economic model and multiparty democratic model which promotes this by definition never change westoids

Britain's NHS is not capitalistic by design. Whatever the NHS does, you can be sure that whatever they put in place is worse.

 

[Sangria Nigger]

Think bigger. Sell testosterone as "girl juice" and you might turn a groomed confused boy straight. At worst you'll ruin a middle-aged groomer's fetish and make it even harder for him to infiltrate women's spaces.

Tha'll be doing the Lord's work.