Health secretary says emergency measures banning sale and supply for gender dysphoria will be made indefinite after expert advice

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”.

  • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    We understand the effects and risks of puberty blockers very well, they’ve been in use since the 80s to delay early-onset puberties. The risks are known, can be managed (e.g. making sure patients have plenty of calcium to offset bone density issues), and definitely way less severe than depression, self-harm, and suicide.

    It is thus common sense to do the exact opposite of what the UK is doing. What you wanted to say is probably “uninformed median voter BS”, which is also common but not as sensible given that it’s uninformed, and BS.