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.
Fewer than 100 young people are currently on puberty blockers and they will be able to continue their treatment, it has been confirmed.
But is it “treatment” or is it something else? That’s rather the issue, isn’t it?
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Good. Major step forward. Cue screams of outrage from some quarters.
Aren’t you generally supposed to do things in the opposite order? Clinical trials then prescription to the public?
That was always my understanding of how this whole “medicine” thing is intended to work.
Julius, your thinking is so terribly white colonial don’tcha know.
Ok, apologies, that’s definitely autocorrect on my phone speaking – Nullius.
Having our imperial majesty recognized isn’t the sort of thing for which we demand
tributeapology.