Britain has moved to place an indefinite ban on puberty blocking drugs for minors who imagine they want to be transgender.
The ban on the drugs for transgendering kids was provisionally enacted last year, but now the U.K. is moving to a more permanent ban on the dangerous drugs.
The plan going forward is to refer kids who think they are transgender to psychological help, not to stampede straight to dangerous drugs and mutilating surgeries.
The main objective of the intervention is to alleviate distress associated with gender incongruence & promote the individual’s global functioning and wellbeing. Clinicians are reminded that trans identification may be a transient phase for many youth. /2
— SEGM (@segm_ebm) June 9, 2023
This is fantastic news for kids in the U.K.:
The Department of Health and Social Care said the Commission on Human Medicines (CHM) had published independent expert advice that there is “currently an unacceptable safety risk in the continued prescription of puberty blockers to children”.
The department said the commission had recommended indefinite restrictions while work is done to ensure the safety of children and young people.
New prescriptions of puberty-blocking medicines and gender-affirming hormones were paused in the wake of Dr Hilary Cass’s review into gender identity services for young people in April.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, which runs Scotland’s only gender clinic for under-18s, announced it had stopped starting new patients on the treatments in mid-March.
This is the correct policy. This is a mental health issue, not a physical, medical issue.
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